drawing;
album
- Museum number
- 1923,0717.2.44
- Description
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Illustrated manuscript, 'Die Offenbarung Jesu Christi'; fol. 44; recto: roundel with Christ, upheld by God the Father, on the cross, from which have grown branches bearing grapes, a dove at each corner; above, table bordered by roundels of a sun ('Geist') and star ('person'). 1535
Verso [numbered 23]: Christ seated on the throne of Solomon.
Drawings in pen and brown and black ink with watercolour and bodycolour; manuscript writing in ink of various colours
- Production date
- 1535
- Dimensions
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Height: 203 millimetres (approx. page size)
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Width: 154 millimetres (approx. page size)
- Curator's comments
- For extended commentary on the manuscript see 1923,0717.2.1.
Recto: cf. Berlin, fol. 36 recto, for a similar cross bearing grapes.
Verso: cf. Berlin-Dahlem, Kupferstichkabinett, KdZ. 861, for a more elaborate throne.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1923
- Acquisition notes
- There is a collector's book label stuck to the verso of the first leaf: "ROSENHEIM COLLECTION/No. A3/33".
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1923,0717.2.44
