Research Catalog

Title

Passio Christi / ab Alberto Durer Nurenbergensi effigiata ; cu[m] varij generis carminibus Fratris Benedicti Chelidonij Musophili.

Author

Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528

Publication

Impressum Nurnberge : Per Albertu[m] Durer pictore[m], anno Christi [1511]

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Additional Authors

• Chelidonius, Benedictus, -1521.
• Pirckheimer, Willibald, 1470-1530
• Cochlaeus, Johannes, 1479-1552
• Höltzel, Hieronymus, active 1500-1525
• Drexel Collection

Description

[76] pages : 37 illustrations; 23 cm (4to)

Summary

• Latin verses by Chelidonius on the themes of the prints at foot of title page and on the verso of all but the last two leaves. On verso of last print are laudatory verses by Chelidonius, addressed to Willibald Pirckheimer, and by Pirckheimer and Johannes Cochlaeus; last leaf has the colophon and warning against piracy on the recto, with blank verso. The verses were originally published approximately 1508 in a work with illustrations by Johannes Wechtlin under title: Passio Iesu Christi Saluatoris mundi vario carminu[m] genere F. Benedicti Chelidonij Musophili doctissime descripta; see Schoch (cited below), page 282.
• Illustrations: 37 woodcuts, comprising one on the title page (Bartsch 16) and 36 full-page cuts (Bartsch 17-52), all with monogram AD; Bartsch 32 and 37 are dated 1509 and Bartsch 18 and 38 are dated 1510; Bartsch 31 and 33 may be earlier than 1509. The order of plates (Bartsch 16-20, 22-23, 21, 24-52) is correct in relation to the text, thus differing from the Fairfax Murray and other copies in which the order is Bartsch 16-52.

Uniform Title

Kleine Passion

Alternative Title

• Kleine Passion
• Passio Christi ab Alberto Durer Nurenbergensi effigiata

Subject

• Jesus Christ > Passion > Art
• Jesus Christ > Passion > Poetry
• Jesus Christ
• Passion of Jesus Christ

Genre/Form

• Art.
• Woodcuts – Germany – 16th century.

Note

• "Cum priuilegio."
• The first edition of the series of woodcuts designed by Dürer with text by Chelidonius.
• Imprint from colophon, where date is expressed in Latin words: anno Christi millesimo quingentesimovndecimo.
• Printed by Hieronymus Höltzel; see VD 16 and other sources cited below.
• "Some sets of proofs were struck off before the issue of the book"--Dodgson (cited below), page 293. For description of proof sets, which are without the text, see Dodgson, pages 293-296, nos. 61-96.
• The title page with letterpress title above the image supersedes a version with xylographic title, "Passionis [sic] D[omi]ni N[ost]ri Iesu Cristi cum figuris"; the British Museum possesses a unique proof of this state of the cut. See Dodgson, page 301 and plate vi; Meder, entry 125, 1st state, and figure 71.
• Signatures: A-D⁸ E⁶.
• Roman and Gothic type (Proctor 11003); 21-24 lines.
• Watermark: High crown (Hausmann, figure 21; Meder, figure 20).

Indexed In (note)

• Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des XVI. Jahrhunderts (VD 16)
• Panzer, G.W.F. Annales typographici
• Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries
• Bartsch, A. Le peintre graveur
• Hollstein, F.W.H. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts, ca. 1400-1700
• Catalogue of early German and Flemish woodcuts preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (Dodgson)
• Catalogue of a collection of early German books in the library of C. Fairfax Murray
• Hausmann, B. Albrecht Dürer's Kupferstiche, Radirungen, Holzschnitte und Zeichnungen
• Kurth, W. Complete woodcuts of Albrecht Dürer
• Meder, J. Dürer-Katalog
• Albrecht Dürer, das druckgraphische Werk (Schoch and others)

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available online (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek copy) via MDZ Digital/BSB.

Provenance (note)

• Latin inscription in unidentified hand on recto of free back endpaper.

Binding (note)

• Eighteenth-century vellum.

Call Number

Spencer Coll. Ger. 1511

LCCN

49000667

OCLC

30938147

Author

Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528, artist.

Title

Passio Christi / ab Alberto Durer Nurenbergensi effigiata ; cu[m] varij generis carminibus Fratris Benedicti Chelidonij Musophili.

Publisher

Impressum Nurnberge : Per Albertu[m] Durer pictore[m], anno Christi [1511]

Type of Content

still image

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Indexed In:

Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des XVI. Jahrhunderts (VD 16), S 4588

Panzer, G.W.F. Annales typographici, v. 7, page 450, no. 75

Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries, D1058

Bartsch, A. Le peintre graveur, v. 7, pages 119-121, no. 16-52

Hollstein, F.W.H. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts, ca. 1400-1700, v. 7, page 112, no. b; pages 112-132, no. 125-161

Catalogue of early German and Flemish woodcuts preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (Dodgson), v. 1, page 262, no. 7; page 302, no. 110a

Catalogue of a collection of early German books in the library of C. Fairfax Murray, v. 1, entry 144

Hausmann, B. Albrecht Dürer's Kupferstiche, Radirungen, Holzschnitte und Zeichnungen, pages 62-64, "Zweite Etat"

Kurth, W. Complete woodcuts of Albrecht Dürer, pages 30-31, no. 222-258

Meder, J. Dürer-Katalog, pages 129-130, no. 2; pages 131-150, entries 125-161

Albrecht Dürer, das druckgraphische Werk (Schoch and others), Bd. 2, pages 280-344, entries 186-222

Additional Formats

Also available online (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek copy) via MDZ Digital/BSB.

Binding

Eighteenth-century vellum. NN

Provenance

Latin inscription in unidentified hand on recto of free back endpaper. NN

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Place of Publication

Germany Nuremberg.

Added Author

Container of (work): Chelidonius, Benedictus, -1521. Passio Jesu Christi Salvatoris mundi.

Pirckheimer, Willibald, 1470-1530, writer of added text.

Cochlaeus, Johannes, 1479-1552, writer of added text.

Höltzel, Hieronymus, active 1500-1525, printer.

Drexel Collection.

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. Ger. 1511

Drexel 2536