COLLECTION NAME:
Early Printing Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL1200357
Reference Number:
17249.2
Previous Accession Number:
Latin MS 366
Link to Catalogue:
Parent Work Title:
St Christopher Woodcut
Alternative Parent Work Title:
St Christopher
Date Created:
1435-1450
Page/Sheet:
Inner lower cover
Description:
Impression on paper from a woodblock depicting Saint Christopher. The Saint strides through the water from one shore to the other of a little bay. He grasps in both hands the stem of a date palm which he uses as a staff, and carries on his shoulder the Infant Christ, clad in a long robe, who blesses with his right hand and holds the Orb in his left. The landscape, diminutive in scale as compared with the figure of the Saint, consists of hills that rise and form steep, jutting cliffs, surmounted by trees, on either side of the bay, but descend to the level of the water in the foreground. On the right, a hermit kneels, holding a lantern to guide the Saint, before the door of a chapel, beneath him a rabbit emerges from a burrow. On the left, a man rides on a mule, carrying a sack, towards a mill, from which another man, carrying a sack of flour over his shoulder, climbs on foot the steep road that ascends to a little house beneath the topmost tree. Xylographic text at foot: Cristofori faciem quacumque tueris Illa nempe die morte mala non morieris Millesimo cccc° xx° tertio. The whole within a single wide border. Pasted onto the inner lower cover of the early fifteenth-century codex Latin MS 366, a copy of Konrad von Haimburg’s “Laus Mariae”, completed in 1417 and found in a monastery at Buxheim.
Language:
Latin
Subject:
Printing--History
Subject:
Christianity
Category of Material:
Printed
Sub-Category:
Incunabula
Sub-Category:
Watermarks
Technique Used:
Woodcut (process)
Technique Used:
Hand colouring
Medium:
Ink
Support:
Paper
Creation Site:
Germany
People Covered:
Christopher, Saint
People Covered:
Jesus Christ
Item Height:
298 mm
Item Width:
210 mm
Provenance:
Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834, former owner
Provenance:
Gundelfingen, Anna von, 1400?-1432, former owner
Provenance:
Reichskartause Buxheim, former owner
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights:
JRL1200357
