Featured Pages from the Middle Ages

I like the one with Moses..

shoeing the horse is neat also ...

 

You can only hope the Durer is early.

I think the subject of the men under the banners is Jesus sending out the apostles two-by-two. I'll be surprised if it's by Wimpfeling, but go ahead and surprise me.

I think the print of the one man standing over the other is Cain slaying Abel.

 

The images in this link are AMAZING!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for posting!!!

 

The one with IVDICVM on top is a part of a Bible: Judges 7:12

https://biblehub.com/judges/7-12.htm

 

The one with the 5 portraits is not the Nuremberg Chronicle (Hartmann Schedel), but another book from the same author from 1496:

"Das buch Der Croniken unnd geschichten: mit figuren und pildnissen von anbegin der welt biß auff dise unsere zeyt"

The book of Chronicles and Histories: with figures and images from the beginning of the World until our time.

https://books.google.nl/books?id=OP...IEAM#v=onepage&q=Epymenides symonides&f=false

 

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Biblical? Do you have a pic of the reverse side?

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German description of Roman history. Mid 16th century.

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German Bible

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German book about how to use a so called Jacob's staff

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Hartmann Schedel's book, see post #45

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Same German bible as Image #26/3?

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Same book as #26/2?

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Latin Missale (?) in a nice rotunda letter type. Late incunabula or early post-incunabula.

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Some German history book. The 2 bottom woodcuts show great Landsknecht clothing! 1540?

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German herbal (Krautenbuch) with a description of animals. On this page a stork and a pelican.

 

It's my understanding on a book lay-out like this, that those isolated center columns are the actual text, and the surrounding print is commentary.

 

Correct, also named "Glosses" or annotations.

 

Post #27 Image 9 is a page from
"Ritterliche Reutter Kunst, Darinnen Ordentlich begriffen Wie mã zuvorderst die Ritterliche, vnd adeliche Vbung der Reutterey, bevorab in Teutschland ... gebrauchen vnd vnderscheiden möge ... Deszgleichen ein vberausz nützlicher vnd eigentlicher Vnderricht der Marstallerey, vnd Roßartzeney ... jetzt auffs neuw an tag geben: vnnd mit schönen artigen Figuren gezieret: Dergleichen nie im Truck außgangen. Durch den edlen gestrengen Herrn L. V. C. gewesener Keyserlicher Maiestat Stallmeister" (Jost Amman, Frankfurt, 1584)

Google Books:

https://books.google.nl/books?id=3M9WAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR89-IA1&lpg=PR89-IA1&dq="eines+guten+huffs"&source=bl&ots=WSBGwWRsi5&sig=ACfU3U3BAmZC3LTDH7q9mQ12doXEcw991Q&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjDv879uYj8AhWHLewKHRSgBpsQ6AF6BAgJEAM#v=onepage&q&f=false

 

Ex Libris has a lot more knowledge of and experience in researching this sort of material, which I seldom see (sigh...), but I can contribute that, from your first post, the two leaves with red/blue headers reading HERO (or is it MERO?) and DEV appear to be stylistically very similar to the simplest Gutenberg Bible pages, though they are clearly not, appearing to be in manuscript, and with too many lines - Gutenberg will have 40 or 42. DEV would almost certainly be Deuteronomy; not sure what HERO or MERO could be.

Perhaps they were manuscript versions in imitation of Gutenberg, or an earlier manuscript that influenced HIM.

In any case, a remarkable haul, and worth contacting dealers in manuscripts & early printed material or auctions who have experience in the field.

One think I find interesting is how crude, to be blunt, some of the leaves are - in books on the subject, one usually only sees the finest examples of printing & illuminating, not the more everyday stuff.

 

Thanks for the compliment, but I think you are overestimating my knowledge. I have some knowledge, but most of it is because my google skills, to be honest.

The manuscript pages you mention are (that is my guess) from a bible written 200 years earlier than the Gutenberg Bible(1250 vs 1455). Although the style of the page is similar, the font is quite different. The manuscript was written in a kind of proto-gothic font, while the Gutenberg Bible was printed in a much more formal Gothic letter (also called blackletter or fraktur). If you are interested in early writing, this is a great starting point:

http://guindo.pntic.mec.es/jmag0042/LATIN_PALEOGRAPHY.pdf

 

All I know about Fraktur is it's not easy to read unless you're trained. My dad could, his grandmother taught him, but unless you're used to it it's not fun.