Officia M.T.C., 1531

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Medium

bound volume with 103 woodcut illustrations on laid paper

Dimensions

book: 31.5 x 21.5 x 2.5 cm (12 3/8 x 8 7/16 x 1 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Dodgson 1980, 143, no. 12

Accession Number

2011.80.1

Artists / Makers

Marcus Tullius Cicero (author)

Hans Weiditz, II (author) German, 1500 or before - c. 1536

Hans Burgkmair I (artist) German, 1473 - 1531

Albrecht Dürer (artist after) German, 1471 - 1528

Heinrich Steiner (printer) German

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Inscription

across top in brown ink on title: FF.Fürstenfelden fuim ad S. Leonardum; in black ink on remaining edge of (missing) page before title: (not deciphered); on insdie lower cover in graphite upper right: pw/141544; center: [*]8, A-O6, P7, lacking final blank P8 / [8], XCI.ff./cc/wjw

Provenance

Walter Hirst (bookplate). (Ursus Rare Books, Maastricht Art Fair, Catalogue 295, no. 4, March 2011); purchased 2011 by NGA.

Associated Names

Ursus Books and Prints, Ltd.

Exhibition History

2012: Imperial Augsburg: Renaissance Prints and Drawings, 1475-1540, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2012-2014, no. 62.

Bibliography

1977: LC Rosenwald Collection. Washington, DC, 1977: no. 659.

1980: Dodgson, Campbell. Catalogue of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts. London: Quarto Press in association with British Museum Publications Limited, 1980: 143, no. 12.

2011: Ursus Rare Books, Catalogue 295. New York, March 2011: no. 4.