impression:T53991

Techniques and Reception of Prints in Central and Eastern Europe (15th–18th c.)

Things – T53991

Title-page of Devotissime Meditationes de vita

In Thomas à Kempis, Deuotissime Meditationes de vita: beneficiis: et passio[n]e saluatoris Jesu chri[sti], Augsburg: Siegmund Grimm (printer), Marx Wirsung (printer), 1520 (Munich, BSB)

--no-address-- (1 of 38 in-Urus figures)

Details

Matrices

Hans (II) Weiditz (printmaker), Ornamental Page Border (Grimm & Wirsung)

Actors

Hans (II) Weiditz (ca 1500 - ca 1536) printmaker : 1520
Marx Wirsung (ca 1460 - ca 1521) printer : 1520
Siegmund Grimm (ca 1480 - 1530) printer : 1520

Places

Augsburg production place : 1520

Design

Hans (II) Weiditz (printmaker), Ornamental Page Border (Grimm & Wirsung) ◼

Expert view

Iconography description

Candelabrum ornament (Iconclass: 48A98711)

Functional context

Title page (devotional literature) (Title page or frontispiece)

Inscriptions, Markings and Mentions

Inscriptions

Matrix inscriptions

MDXX

References

Web resources

digital copy (MDZ)

Credits

Created by

Marcin Bogusz (2023-09-25 17:17)

Edited by

Marcin Bogusz

Last update by

Marcin Bogusz (2023-09-28 16:04)