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BLOCKBOOK, APOCALYPSE -- Folio 25 of blockbook edition Schreiber IV. [Southern Germany, ca 1465].
Chancery 2o (270 x 210 mm). One leaf only: 2/9 (of 48: 1-316). Recto, upper half: the angels loosed from the river Euphrates kill the third part of men (Revelation 9:17-20); lower half: the mighty angel coming down from heaven, and the voices of the seven thunders (Revelation 10:4). Verso blank. Illustration and text xylographically impressed in pale brown ink from a single woodblock. Colored by a contemporary German hand in green, orange, brown, black and greys. (Minor restoration at the left edge.) Matted, framed and glazed. Provenance: early inscriptions in lower half of sheet; acquired from Ars Libri, 1983.
A fine half-sheet from a characteristically colored copy of the second or third xylographic edition (Schreiber IV) of the Apocalypse. Schreiber's Netherlandish editions I and II actually form a single edition, employing the same blocks, and his edition III should be dated later than most impressions of edition IV (for the paper evidence, see Allan Stevenson, "The Problem of the Blockbooks" in: the Gutenberg-Museum 1991 exhibition catalogue p. 244). This blockbook is an illustrated series of Latin excerpts of Revelations (Vulgate version) and Berengaudian gloss. Schr IV's closest iconographical and textual relations are with Wellcome MS 49. About two dozen copies of this edition survive in various states of completeness, but even fragments are now OF GREAT RARITY ON THE MARKET. Schreiber vol. 4, pp. 164-5, 196; Hind I, p. 222; F. de Marez Oyens, "Apocalypsis Sancti Johannis, Rosenwald Collection 23" in Vision of a Collector (Washington 1991) pp. 57-58; S. Mertens and C. Schneider (eds.), Blockbücher des Mittelalters (Mainz 1991) pp. 59-118 and fig. V.28; G. Bing, "The Apocalypse Block-Books and their Manuscript Models," in: Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 5 (1942), pp. 143-58.
Chancery 2o (270 x 210 mm). One leaf only: 2/9 (of 48: 1-316). Recto, upper half: the angels loosed from the river Euphrates kill the third part of men (Revelation 9:17-20); lower half: the mighty angel coming down from heaven, and the voices of the seven thunders (Revelation 10:4). Verso blank. Illustration and text xylographically impressed in pale brown ink from a single woodblock. Colored by a contemporary German hand in green, orange, brown, black and greys. (Minor restoration at the left edge.) Matted, framed and glazed. Provenance: early inscriptions in lower half of sheet; acquired from Ars Libri, 1983.
A fine half-sheet from a characteristically colored copy of the second or third xylographic edition (Schreiber IV) of the Apocalypse. Schreiber's Netherlandish editions I and II actually form a single edition, employing the same blocks, and his edition III should be dated later than most impressions of edition IV (for the paper evidence, see Allan Stevenson, "The Problem of the Blockbooks" in: the Gutenberg-Museum 1991 exhibition catalogue p. 244). This blockbook is an illustrated series of Latin excerpts of Revelations (Vulgate version) and Berengaudian gloss. Schr IV's closest iconographical and textual relations are with Wellcome MS 49. About two dozen copies of this edition survive in various states of completeness, but even fragments are now OF GREAT RARITY ON THE MARKET. Schreiber vol. 4, pp. 164-5, 196; Hind I, p. 222; F. de Marez Oyens, "Apocalypsis Sancti Johannis, Rosenwald Collection 23" in Vision of a Collector (Washington 1991) pp. 57-58; S. Mertens and C. Schneider (eds.), Blockbücher des Mittelalters (Mainz 1991) pp. 59-118 and fig. V.28; G. Bing, "The Apocalypse Block-Books and their Manuscript Models," in: Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 5 (1942), pp. 143-58.