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Hortulus animae. [Strassburg: Martin Flach, 1511].
8o (127 x 88 mm). Woodcuts by Hans Baldung Grien, COLORED BY A CONTEMPORARY HAND. (Lacking 40 leaves.) 19th-century orange boards (joints split). Provenance: acquired from Goodspeed's Book Shop, 1967.
Baldung Grien's woodcuts were used in a variety of Latin and German editions of the Hortulus animae, the "little garden of the soul," a popular prayer book first published 1498. Not in Adams. Muther 1397.
8o (127 x 88 mm). Woodcuts by Hans Baldung Grien, COLORED BY A CONTEMPORARY HAND. (Lacking 40 leaves.) 19th-century orange boards (joints split). Provenance: acquired from Goodspeed's Book Shop, 1967.
Baldung Grien's woodcuts were used in a variety of Latin and German editions of the Hortulus animae, the "little garden of the soul," a popular prayer book first published 1498. Not in Adams. Muther 1397.