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[Fridolin, Stephan (1430-1498)], Der Schatzbehalter der wahren Reichtümer des Heils, November 1491. Nuremberg. Anton Koberger.
[Fridolin, Stephan (1430-1498)], Der Schatzbehalter der wahren Reichtümer des Heils, November 1491. Nuremberg. Anton Koberger.

[Fridolin, Stephan (1430-1498)]

Der Schatzbehalter der wahren Reichtümer des Heils, November 1491. Nuremberg. Anton Koberger.
One of the most beautiful and richly illustrated books from the incunable period, the first to be firmly attributed to an artist, on the suffering and life of Christ.

A landmark in book illustration and one of the first books in which the woodcuts can be attributed to a known artist.
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Folio, (333 x 226 mm). 352 ff., lacking first and last blank; 40 lines and headline, double column, printed guide-letters. Iluminated by a contemporary South German, probably Nuremberg artist: 8- 9- and 11-line opening initial in various colours on gilt ground, each with wide floral border extension in blue, red, green and gilt on fore- and lower-margins, a 6-line initial in blue and red, other 2-4-line initials and paragraph marks in alternating red and blue, some leaves ruled in red. 96 full-page woodcuts from 91 blocks by Michael Wolgemut, Michael Pleydenwurff and their workshop, woodcut Hebrew letters on d4. Nineteenth century blind-tooled russet calf. A very fresh and clean illuminated copy, G2, t1 and t6 probably supplied from another copy, a few leaves with marginal repairs, P6 with marginal worming and P1 with upper inner corner renewed, affecting a few letters.

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