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ex-libris THE WORLD OF EX-LIBRIS |
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A historical retrospective 1 EARLY PRINTED EX-LIBRIS 1470-1700 |
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1b THE GERMAN RENAISSANCE DÜRER, CRANACH D.A. AND THE ‘KLEINMEISTERN’ 1500-1620 |
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1b/12. ? (?D/A)  HIEREMIAS KNOLL, C2, 139 x 96, c.1550.
A little known and undocumented early Austrian ex-libris, in typical Renaissance style, for Hieremias Knoll of Salzburg. Two woodcuts for another member of this family, Thomas, are mentioned by Leiningen but unregistered in Warnecke. |
1b/13. ? (D) JOVINUS DAVID PARNELIUS, C2, 105 x 81, c.1560.
The artist who engraved this plate has not yet been identified, but he belongs to the same group as others in this section. Its style is an interesting example of transition between early and mid-Renaissance. |
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1b/14. ? (D) JODOCUS (ex dono), X1, 117 x 92, 1548.
Viz. Schwencke p. 8 ill. Hamilton, quoting Warren p. 195 and 202, signals the existence of an ex-libris for Jodocus dated 1522, of which the arms correspond to the ones on the left and right sides of this plate. It is difficult, from the inscription, to determine if this plate was made for books bequathed by Jodocus or whether he gave them before his death. |
1b/15. ? (D) ALBRECHT, MARKGRAF VON BRANDENBURG,
X1 + T, 208 x 123, 1559.
This plate is not recorded in Warnecke, and although his register is by no means near complete, the collector cannot help wondering if this is really an ex-libris – or could be, for instance, cut out from a title page. Proof comes, in this instance, in a curious way: the collection contains a smaller version of this ex-libris, with a less elaborate coat-of-arms, which on the reverse, laterally, has a trial printing of part of the larger version. The smaller plate has remnants of glue. If both were printed at the same moment, it seems very unlikely that this larger version was not a bookplate. death. |
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1b/16. Mathias Zündt (D, act. 1530-1571) PFINZING, C2,
121 x 83, c.1570. W1567.
Viz. L-W p. 118.
A rare, delicate and beautiful ex-libris, probably for Karl von Pfinzing-Gründlach of Nuremberg. One of the four bookplates engraved by the artist for members of this family. |
1b/17. ? (D) JAKOB FEUCHT, X1 + T, 148 x 73, 1568.
The presentation of text and arms in this plate is typical of the period. If the Spiegel ex-libris we saw earlier (1a/3) had not been trimmed, it would be similar to this one. |
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1b/18. Gregorius Sikkinger (CH, c.1558- 1617) JACOB
CHRISTOF BLARER V. WARTENSEE, X1, 257 x 180, c.1580.
Weg 290.
Viz. AHS 1895 ill, p. 4; Amweg p. 18, etc.
Several bishops of the town of Basel used folio-size ex-libris for the large books of their libraries in the 16th and 17th Centuries, and J. C. Blarer (*1542, bishop 1575-1608) was no exception. Sikkinger was one of the most talented wood engravers of the late 16th Century, and made over 50 ex-libris. |
1b/19. ? H.M. (D) GREGORIUS SENNER, C2, 318 x 205, 1580.
A very rare and remarkable, large engraved plate in Renaissance style, althought the artist’s slightly naive quality tends to disqualify him from the group of the ‘Little masters’. H.M. was probably not from Nuremberg; the plate was made for Gregorius Senner of Ravensburg. |
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1b/20. ? (CH) URS ARREGGER, C2, 125 x 183, c.1585.
Weg 193.
An unusual plate with husband and wife’s arms: Arregger (St. Gall, 1546-1598) married Barbara von Sury in 1582, and she died in 1627. Swiss ex-libris, until the mid-1700s, are usually closer to German style than French or Italian< on occasion they are precocious and very fine, but usually they have a slightly naive, dis-tinctly provincial touch. |
1b/21. Dominic Custos (D, act.1590-1620) JOHANN GEORG
VON WERDENSTEIN, C2, 162 x 103, 1592. W2435.
Viz. L-W p. 166. Perhaps this ex-libris, made for the Prebendary of Augsburg and Eichstätt, has a somewhat different style from the other plates shown in this section. This could be due to the fact that Custos was from Augsburg, whereas most of the other ‘Little masters’ were from Nuremberg. |
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1b/22. ? (D) CHRISTOF VON WOLKENSTEIN, X1 + T, 180 x 130,
1594. W2509.
A good example of a strong rigourous heraldic design, with more than one helm on the shield, a typical feature of German heraldry. Such ex-libris went out of fashion in the 17th century. |
1b/23. Hans Sibmacher (D, c. 1560-1621) ANDREAS BEHAM
D. E., C2, 115 x 77, 1595. W158.
Viz. L-W p. 160.
Half-a-dozen important artists active in the last decade of the 16th century carried the height of the Renaissance style until the 1620s. A close follower of Jost Ammann, Sibmacher was one of the major artists in this group. |
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