book;
print;
illustrated book
- Museum number
- 1972,U.105.1-131
- Description
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Georg Ruexner, "Thurnier Buch. von Anfang, Ursachen, ursprung, und herkommen der Thurnier im heyilgen Römischen Reich Teutscher Nation...Alles jetzunder von neuwem zusammen getragen mit schönen neuen Figuren sonderlich auch der Adelischen Wappen auffs schönest zugericht..." (Frankfurt am Main, Sigmund Feyerabend & Simon Hüter) 1566; containing woodcut illustrations by Jost Amman of tournaments, courtly banquets, coats of arms etc. printed throughout the text, allegorical representation of Victory printed with Latin verses about the image, and printer's device on the final page showing Venus on a dolphin with angel trumpeter in a decorative oval cartouche. Bound with titlepage printed in red and black with woodcut vignette showing courtiers standing around the throne of a seated ruler, in decorative frame with the double-headed eagle of the Holy Roman Empire. German blind-stamped pigskin binding with metal clasps.
Woodcuts
- Production date
- 1566
- Dimensions
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Height: 298 millimetres (approx. sheet size of each page)
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Width: 192 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Pasted at the end of the volume are 6 additional etchings representing coats of arms, extracted from an edition of Sibmacher's "Wappenbuch." Two further prints from the "Wappenbuch" are pasted facing p. 1.
Colophon: "Getruckt zu Franckfurt am Main, bey Georg Raben, in verlegung Sigmund Feyerabends vnd Simon Hüters, Als man zalt nach Christi geburt tausent, fünffhundert, sechß vnd sechtzig Jar."
For the printer's device, see Ilse O'Dell, "Jost Ammans Buchschmuck-Holzschnitte für Sigmund Feyerabend" (Wiesbaden, 1993), f42.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Thurnier Buch
- Acquisition date
- 1871 (07 Ju '71 on red BM stamp)
- Acquisition notes
- MS inscription with name of previous owners on inner cover board?
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1972,U.105.1-131
