Details
GRAF, URS. Passio Domini Nostri Iesu Christi. Strasbourg: Johann Knoblauch 1507. Median folio, 298 x 210 mm. (11 3/4 x 8 1/4 in.), modern vellum, g.e., light foxing, small paper flaw to last leaf. Collation: A-E6. 30 leaves. Roman type, spaces for initials with guide letters, 25 FULL-PAGE WOODCUTS, ALL BUT ONE BY URS GRAF, signed with his monogram, the final cut by Hans Wechtlin.
Second Latin edition, the first of four editions published in 1507 illustrated with Graf's Passion series of woodcuts (three in Latin and one in German), first published in 1506 in two editions, with text in German and Latin (undated). All editions are RARE: of the present edition Oldenbourg lists 5 copies. Not in Fairfax Murray or NUC. Bartsch VII,4 59; Brunet IV, 421; Hollstein II:4-28; Kristeller 344, nos. 4-27; Muther 1276; M. Consuelo Oldenbourg, "Die Holzschnitte des Urs Graf zur Passion...Ein bibliographisches Verzeichnis ihrer Verwendungen", in Festschrift für Josef Benzing zum sechzigsten Geburtstag (Wiesbaden 1964), p. 301, no. 6.
Provenance: "Ex bibliotheca prioratus St. Petri Monasteriensis", eighteenth-century inscription on f. A1v -- (Purchased by H. Burton at an unidentified sale in Geneva, 23 June 1948, lot 51).
Second Latin edition, the first of four editions published in 1507 illustrated with Graf's Passion series of woodcuts (three in Latin and one in German), first published in 1506 in two editions, with text in German and Latin (undated). All editions are RARE: of the present edition Oldenbourg lists 5 copies. Not in Fairfax Murray or NUC. Bartsch VII,4 59; Brunet IV, 421; Hollstein II:4-28; Kristeller 344, nos. 4-27; Muther 1276; M. Consuelo Oldenbourg, "Die Holzschnitte des Urs Graf zur Passion...Ein bibliographisches Verzeichnis ihrer Verwendungen", in Festschrift für Josef Benzing zum sechzigsten Geburtstag (Wiesbaden 1964), p. 301, no. 6.
Provenance: "Ex bibliotheca prioratus St. Petri Monasteriensis", eighteenth-century inscription on f. A1v -- (Purchased by H. Burton at an unidentified sale in Geneva, 23 June 1948, lot 51).