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Eyn schön nützlich Büchlin vnd Vnderweisung der Kunst des Messens, mit dem Zirckel, Richtscheidt oder Linial ...

Accession number
PML 77447
Creator
Johann II, Prince, Count Palatine, 1492-1557.
Published
[Simmern] : Getruckt vnnd volnendet [sic] zů Siemeren off dem Hunessrucke in[n] Verlegu[n]g Hieronimi Rodlers ..., 1531.
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Donald M. Oenslager, 1981.
Notes
1st ed.
Imprint from colophon.
PML copy imperfect: C2 and H4 lacking. Photostat of C2 is on file.
Popularization of Dürer's Unterweisung der Messung.
Published anonymously. Formerly attributed to Hieronimus Rodler. Attributed to Johann II von Simmern by Bonnemann and Spohn.
Signatures: A-G⁶ H⁴. H4 blank.
Title in red (initial letter black). Within text, some woodcuts have red lines delineating perspective.
Woodcuts are generally attributed to the Master H.H., who was identified by Bonnemann as Hans von Hunsrück, i.e. Johann II von Simmern.
Description
[46] leaves : ill. (woodcuts) ; 28 cm (fol.)
Provenance
Bookplate of E. Peter Jones.
Binding
Tan boards.
Classification
Department