Book/Printed Material A descriptive catalogue of early prints in the British Museum. German and Flemish schools Volume 1
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Image 41 of Volume 1 20 SPECIAL INCUNABULA It is noteworthy that the Resurrection is not represented in the present sequence a circumstance in conformity with the practice of early Christian Art but the immediate subject as…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Willshire, William Hughes - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1879
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Image 42 of Volume 1 CORONA LUCIS OF AIXLACHAPELLE PLATE 3 THE DESCENT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ee HE last of the designs within a circle The latter is 7 inches in 0 diameter with an ornamented…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Willshire, William Hughes - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1879
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Image 43 of Volume 1 22 SPECIAL INCUNABULA like mantle supporting with both hands a large tablet which runs horizontally across the centre of the square On this tablet is inscribed in reverseâ BEATI QV ESURIVN 1…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Willshire, William Hughes - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1879
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Image 44 of Volume 1 CORONA LUCIS OF AIXLACHAPELLE 23 expressive figures The ground of the composition is made up of radiating and interlacing narrow bands which alternate with large white spaces corresponding to the localities where…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Willshire, William Hughes - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1879
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Image 45 of Volume 1 24 SPECIAL INCUNABULA a single series of cross hatchings Between these bands are large white spaces due to the original copper plate being percÃe a jour On the borders of the tunic…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Willshire, William Hughes - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1879
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Image 46 of Volume 1 it may be truly said scenes from the Life of Christ and illustrations from the first portion of the Sermon on the Mount These sixteen intagliated plates are fastened with small screws…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Willshire, William Hughes - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1879
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Image 47 of Volume 1 26 SPECIAL INCUNABULA Such crowns of lichtâcorone luminarie corone lucis phari gabatheâpre sented as votive offerings to the large churches assumed various forms according to the times but all symbolized with more…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Willshire, William Hughes - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1879
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Image 48 of Volume 1 CORONA LUCIS OF AIXLACHAPELLE 27 â Christian Iconographyâ Bohnâs âIllustrated Libraryâ London 1851 pp 421 423 To revert to Dr Bockâ â As the inscription on the Crown luminary itself clearly indicates…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Willshire, William Hughes - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1879
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Image 49 of Volume 1 28 SPECIAL INCUNABULA idea and plan of these cleverly composed representations can justly be regarded as the creations of a technical engraver however gifted On the contrary we believe that the noble…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Willshire, William Hughes - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1879
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Image 50 of Volume 1 CORONA LUCIS OF AIXLACHAPELLE 29 trellised grounds as also the wreathlike bands bearing the inscriptions and which encircle the ring of the luminary have throughout a Romanesque character The ornamentation consists for…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Willshire, William Hughes - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1879
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Image 51 of Volume 1 30 SPECIAL INCUNABULA The results of the damage done to the original copper of PL 15 by time and oxidation are mainly to be observed in the deficient inscription as given in…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Willshire, William Hughes - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1879
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Image 52 of Volume 1 THE MASTER OF THE YEAR 1457 31 followed by Martin Schongauer Albert Diirer Franz von Bocholt Israhel van Meckenen Johann von KÃln Lucas van Leyden the Master S and others who are…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Willshire, William Hughes - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1879
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Image 53 of Volume 1 32 Son TSPECIAL INCUNABULA In the present composition both the exterior and interior of the Temple are shown On the right hand the inner part is exposed allowing our Saviour to be…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Willshire, William Hughes - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1879
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Image 54 of Volume 1 THE MASTER OF THE YEAR 1437 33 Opposite to Judas and on an exactly similar seat but without any inscription upon it sits another disciple raising his hands in astonishment at the…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Willshire, William Hughes - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1879
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Image 55 of Volume 1 34 SPECIAL INCUNABULA in our Lords course on earth and especially of this portion of it was based namely the voluntary nature of all His actsâ âThe prostration of the troop is…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Willshire, William Hughes - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1879
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Image 56 of Volume 1 THE MASTER OF THE YEAR 1457 35 NG 10 CHRIST BEFORE HEROD x EROD clad in royal robe with sceptre in the left hand and crown upon his head is seated on…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Willshire, William Hughes - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1879
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Image 57 of Volume 1 36 SPECIAL INCUNABULA Christ pressing down by means of a long staff the thorns upon His brow from which long drops of blood course down upon His face The man on the…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Willshire, William Hughes - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1879
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Image 58 of Volume 1 THE MASTER OF THE YEAR 1437 37 Thus is St Matthews description illustrated â âFit postquam illuserunt ei exuerunt eum chlamyde et induerunt eum vesti mentis ejus et duxerunt eum ut crucifigerent…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Willshire, William Hughes - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1879
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Image 59 of Volume 1 SPECIAL INCUNABULA NO 20 CHRIST ON THE CROSS UR Lord is upon the now elevated Cross on the right hand side of it j stands the Blessed Virgin with joined hands and…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Willshire, William Hughes - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1879
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Image 60 of Volume 1 THE MASTER OF THE YEAR 143 NO 23 THE ENTOMBMENT ZA HE body of Christ as received from the Cross is âbeing lowered into a 17 tomb by means of a large…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Willshire, William Hughes - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1879
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Image 61 of Volume 1 SPECIAL INCUNABULA NO 25 THE RESURRECTION HOUGH the Gospel narratives do not afford an account of any of the details of the actual Resurrection since not any mortal eye had wit upon…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Willshire, William Hughes - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1879
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Image 62 of Volume 1 glu THE MASTER OF THE YEAR 1457 41 NO 28 THE INCREDULITY OF ST THOMAS ENEATH the groined and vaulted ceiling of a chamber supported by columns stands Christ on the right…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Willshire, William Hughes - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1879
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Image 63 of Volume 1 pe eT eS SN SF Seg ia SPECIAL INCUNABULA A 32 THE VIRGIN AND CHILD ADORED BY AN ABBOT LAST QUARTER OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY GERMANY pEDFZITHIN a chapel of Gotlie architecture…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Willshire, William Hughes - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1879
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Image 64 of Volume 1 THE VIRGIN AND CHILD OF 1471 43 appears such as to be out of keeping with much of the work elsewhere giving rise to a suspicion ag to the genuineness of the…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Willshire, William Hughes - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1879
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Image 65 of Volume 1 Se mii SER LL SE as tas 44 SPECIAL INCUNABULA the face of the Infant Saviour of the features of the Virgin and of the adoring ecclesiastic little could be advanced in…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Willshire, William Hughes - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1879
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Image 66 of Volume 1 DIVISION B PRINTS IN THE MANIERE CRIBLEE- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Willshire, William Hughes - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1879
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Image 67 of Volume 1- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Willshire, William Hughes - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1879
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Image 68 of Volume 1 PREFATORY REMARKS Prints in the Maniere CriblÃeââ TE HE examples now to be described present to the eye a very peculiar appearance In the novice they give rise to much curiosity as…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Willshire, William Hughes - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1879
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Image 69 of Volume 1 48 PRINTS IN THE MANIERE CRIBLLE in parts in a manner like that practised it is assumed usually on metal plates In the print referred to the drapery for instance of Christ…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Willshire, William Hughes - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1879
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Image 70 of Volume 1 PREFATORY REMARKS 49 statements of M Hymans of the Department of Prints ec at the BibliothÃque Royale de Belgique M Hymans writes â âWe are indebted to the kindness of an amateur…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Willshire, William Hughes - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1879
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Image 71 of Volume 1 50 PRINTS IN THE MANIERE CRIBLLE 1454 and 1474 We read these figures as 1474 That older im pressions than this last date would imply have reached our time must be allowed…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Willshire, William Hughes - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1879
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Image 72 of Volume 1 ailauy V PREFATORY REMARKS 51 thirteenth and of a considerable portion of the fourteenth century is never exhibited in these early prints a style which may be seen however in engraved ornamental…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Willshire, William Hughes - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1879
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Image 73 of Volume 1 52 PRINTS IN THE MANIERE CRIBLEE omnes campi tali modo fuerint perforati cum limis parvulis sequabis eos per omnia usque ad tractos Quo facto deaurabis et polies laminam ut supra Xodem modo…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Willshire, William Hughes - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1879
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Image 74 of Volume 1 iY PREFATORY REMARKS 53 These prints rarely deal with any other than religious subjects Such examples as we have seen have mostly proceededâas we believeâfrom a German source one or two of…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Willshire, William Hughes - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1879
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Image 75 of Volume 1 54 PRINTS IN THE MANIERE CRIBLEL gaints and rich borders in the style of the manuscript  Hoursâ adorned with miniatures and which MSS these  Livres dâHeuresâ were destined to replace…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Willshire, William Hughes - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1879
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Image 76 of Volume 1 PREFATORY REMARKS 55 âThe floriated letters which figure in this book are certainly by Tory for we there find the forms praised by him in his Champ fleury A fact worthy of…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Willshire, William Hughes - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1879
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Image 77 of Volume 1- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Willshire, William Hughes - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1879
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Image 78 of Volume 1 Br TEN COMMANDMENTS AND THE TRESPASS OF THEM LAST QUARTER OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY UPPER GERMANY 28 SERIES of twenty small prints engraved in the maniÃre criblÃe illus trating by designs and…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Willshire, William Hughes - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1879
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Image 79 of Volume 1 58 PRINTS IN THE MANIERE CRIBLEL the sides of each print The older MS is of Gothic cursive character and gives both the upper and lower engraved inscriptions the writing is large…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Willshire, William Hughes - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1879
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Image 80 of Volume 1 TEN COMMANDMENTS 59 The background is white on which is a small amount of frayed work The ground is parqueted as in the former composition Little or no punctiform technic is to…- Contributor: Levis, Howard Coppuck - Willshire, William Hughes - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1879
About this Item
Title
- A descriptive catalogue of early prints in the British Museum. German and Flemish schools
Names
- British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings
- Levis, Howard Coppuck, former owner
- Willshire, William Hughes, 1816-1899
- Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- London : Printed by order of the Trustees [by] Longmans & Co., 1879-<1883 >
Notes
- - Vol. 2 has title: Catalogue of early prints in the British Museum. German and Flemish schools.
- - Call number of original: NE55.L7A4.
- - Master microform held by: DLC.
- - Microfilm. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1985. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.
- - Gift of Lessing J. Rosenwald, 1943-1975.
Medium
- v. <1-2 > : ill. ; 27 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- Microfilm 85/5507 (N)
- NE55.L7 A4
Digital Id
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- 85125616
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