FRIDOLIN, Stephan
Der Schatzbehalter der wahren Reichtümer des Heils, Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, November 1491.
ONE OF THE MOST CELEBRATED AND RICHLY ILLUSTRATED BOOKS FROM THE INCUNABLE PERIOD, AND THE FIRST TO BE FIRMLY ATTRIBUTED TO AN ARTIST, ON THE SUFFERING AND LIFE OF CHRIST
First and only edition of one of the great monuments of late gothic woodcut design, a richly illustrated devotional text published by Anton Koberger’s press two years before the Nuremberg Chronicle, and one of the earliest German illustrated books with woodcuts that can be attributed to a specific artist, with 96 full-page woodcuts from 91 blocks by Michael Wolgemut, Michael Pleydenwurff and their workshop, and woodcut Hebrew letters on leaf d4. Illuminated (probably by a contemporary South German or even Nuremberg artist) with three splendid initials with floral borders, some leaves ruled in red.
First and only edition of one of the great monuments of late gothic woodcut design, a richly illustrated devotional text published by Anton Koberger’s press two years before the Nuremberg Chronicle, and one of the earliest German illustrated books with woodcuts that can be attributed to a specific artist, with 96 full-page woodcuts from 91 blocks by Michael Wolgemut, Michael Pleydenwurff and their workshop, and woodcut Hebrew letters on leaf d4. Illuminated (probably by a contemporary South German or even Nuremberg artist) with three splendid initials with floral borders, some leaves ruled in red.
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