Accession number
PML 28671.2
Published
Frankfort : Christopher Egenolff, 1550.
Notes
Title-page continues: Sampt anderen wunderbarlichen Bancketen, Lust und freuden Spielen, köstlicher und kurzweillicher herzlicheyten, auss anschickung der hochgebornen durchleuchtigen Fürstinn. Fraw Marien zu Ungern unnd Behem Koniginn, Wittib &. zugericht und volnbracht.
Illustrated account of a fantastic tournament and festival held in August of 1549 to celebrate the visit to Binche by the future Philip II, King of Spain, on his tour through Italy, Germany and the Low Countries; the tournament was presented as "The adventure of the enchanted sword", and was based on the popular chivalric romance, Amadis de Gaule.
Fifteen woodcuts originally prepared for Theuerdank, issued in 1517, and issued again in another edition in 1553 by Egenolff, who had acquired the blocks for the first edition of the Theuerdank and made use of a selection in this publication. Earlier attributed largely to H. Schäufelein whose monogram is on some of the Theuerdank woodcuts, although none of the present woodcuts bear that monogram. Frontispiece, duplicated on C3v, was prepared after 1520, and is reported to have appeared first in a 1689 ed. of Theuerdank. Cf. Musper and Holstein who attribute it to H. Burgkmair, as no. 120. No. 105 (unsigned) on D2v, is by Schäufelein according to Musper. All others are apparently by L. Beck except the last by Burgkmair [?] from Petrarch's Von der Artzney bayder Glück, 1532 (also reissued by Egenolff, 1551-1584). C. Dodgson in Cat. of German and Flemish woodcuts in the BM, gives evidence that the "Petrarch Master" was Hans Weidnitz II. The particular woodcut is however not described in either artist's BM inventory
Signatures: A-D⁴.
Imprint from colophon.
Illustrated account of a fantastic tournament and festival held in August of 1549 to celebrate the visit to Binche by the future Philip II, King of Spain, on his tour through Italy, Germany and the Low Countries; the tournament was presented as "The adventure of the enchanted sword", and was based on the popular chivalric romance, Amadis de Gaule.
Fifteen woodcuts originally prepared for Theuerdank, issued in 1517, and issued again in another edition in 1553 by Egenolff, who had acquired the blocks for the first edition of the Theuerdank and made use of a selection in this publication. Earlier attributed largely to H. Schäufelein whose monogram is on some of the Theuerdank woodcuts, although none of the present woodcuts bear that monogram. Frontispiece, duplicated on C3v, was prepared after 1520, and is reported to have appeared first in a 1689 ed. of Theuerdank. Cf. Musper and Holstein who attribute it to H. Burgkmair, as no. 120. No. 105 (unsigned) on D2v, is by Schäufelein according to Musper. All others are apparently by L. Beck except the last by Burgkmair [?] from Petrarch's Von der Artzney bayder Glück, 1532 (also reissued by Egenolff, 1551-1584). C. Dodgson in Cat. of German and Flemish woodcuts in the BM, gives evidence that the "Petrarch Master" was Hans Weidnitz II. The particular woodcut is however not described in either artist's BM inventory
Signatures: A-D⁴.
Imprint from colophon.
Description
16 leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 31 cm (2°)
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