book;
print;
illustrated book
- Museum number
- 1949,0411.4981
- Description
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Sebastian Brant, "Varia Sebastiani Brant Carmina" (Basle, Johann Bergmann) 1498; containing a woodcut portrait of Brant attributed to Albrecht Dürer, printed on the titlepage with two smaller woodcuts showing the Adoration of the Magi and the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian, together with 3 further woodcut illustrations and the printer's device. Rebound with letterpress in nineteenth-century(?) tooled leather. Gilt-edged.
Woodcuts
- Production date
- 1498
- Dimensions
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Height: 203 millimetres (approx. sheet size of each page)
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Width: 142 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Colophon: "Basilee op[er]a & impensis Iohannis Bergman De Olpe K[a]l[endis] Maiis Anni &c. xcviii"
The woodcuts are as follows --
- Titlepage: portrait of Brant kneeling facing right towards a tree, beside him a shield with wheel symbol; Adoration; Martyrdom of St. Sebastian
- "De corrupto ordine vivendi" with astrological chart and fool driving a cart containing an upside-down man
- "Ad vivum Maximilianu", showing the Emperor with flag and sword looking towards Jerusalem
- "Thurcorum terror et potentia", woodcut dated 1498 with man wearing turban on horseback pursued at left by riders with double-eagle banner
- repeat of the portrait of Brant
- printer's device showing lion with fleur-de-lis shield and motto banderole
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Varia Sebastiani Brant Carmina
- Acquisition date
- 1949
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1949,0411.4981
