Accession number
PML 4086
Published
[No place] : [no printer], [approximately 1550-1575]
Notes
245 woodcuts numbered in pencil 1-155 (156 lacking), 157-198 (199 lacking), 200-237, and 1-10 extra. Extra no. 4 is duplicate of no. 3 in regular series; other 9 extra are impressions from the 13 lost woodblocks. The woodcuts have been bound in the order of the numbers of the 236 woodblocks preserved in the Imperial Library, Vienna.
An autobiographical historical romance written at the dictation of Emperor Maximilian I and put into shape by his secretary, Marcus Treitzsauerwein. First ed. did not appear until 1775 (Vienna).
Later-16th century printing of 245 out of a known 251 woodcuts (after drawings by Burgkmair, Beck, Springinklee, and Schäufelein), probably in preparation for publication of Weisskunig contemplated by Baron Richard Strein von Schwarzenau (d. 1600) and Georg Christoph von Schallenberg (d. 1633) (see Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 57.40, album with woodcuts, drawings, and manuscript texts owned by Strein von Schwarzenau and von Schallenberg).
See: Brunet, V, 933. Dodgson, v. 2, p. 90-96. Der Weisskunig...hrsg. von Alwin Schultz. Wien, 1888. (In: Vienna. Kunsthistorisches Museum. Jahrbuch der kunsthistorischen Sammlungen des allerhöchsten Kaiserhauses, Bd. 6.)
Watermarks: Briquet 1013 (Prague, 1549-50) and 8268 (Leipzig, 1568).
An autobiographical historical romance written at the dictation of Emperor Maximilian I and put into shape by his secretary, Marcus Treitzsauerwein. First ed. did not appear until 1775 (Vienna).
Later-16th century printing of 245 out of a known 251 woodcuts (after drawings by Burgkmair, Beck, Springinklee, and Schäufelein), probably in preparation for publication of Weisskunig contemplated by Baron Richard Strein von Schwarzenau (d. 1600) and Georg Christoph von Schallenberg (d. 1633) (see Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 57.40, album with woodcuts, drawings, and manuscript texts owned by Strein von Schwarzenau and von Schallenberg).
See: Brunet, V, 933. Dodgson, v. 2, p. 90-96. Der Weisskunig...hrsg. von Alwin Schultz. Wien, 1888. (In: Vienna. Kunsthistorisches Museum. Jahrbuch der kunsthistorischen Sammlungen des allerhöchsten Kaiserhauses, Bd. 6.)
Watermarks: Briquet 1013 (Prague, 1549-50) and 8268 (Leipzig, 1568).
Description
[245] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 31 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Annotations: Several leaves with contemporary German captions, in two different hands, and several numbering systems.
Binding
Maroon morocco by Riviere & Son.
Classification
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