Vnderweysung der Messung, mit dem Zirckel vn[d] Richtscheyt, in Linien Ebnen vnnd gantzen Corporen

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Title
Vnderweysung der Messung, mit dem Zirckel vn[d] Richtscheyt, in Linien Ebnen vnnd gantzen Corporen
Alternative Title
Unterweisung der Messung
Creator
Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528
Contributor
Formschneyder, Hieronymus, d. 1556, engraver.
Published / Created
im 1525. Jar.
Publication Place
Gedruckt zů Nüremberg
Publisher
s.n.
Description
BEIN J714 D86 +525: Illegible bookplate [partially torn]. Inscription: L. Ordlinger[?]. Illegible inscription on t.p. Stamp on t.p.: Biblioteka [?]ska. Portrait of Albrecht Dürer pasted on t.p.
BEIN 1971 Folio 561: Manuscript waste used on binding. No. 1 of 4 titles bound together.
Place and date of printing from colophon, leaf Q3r; lacking in some copies (cf. Bohatta, no. 2; Meder, Ausg. B). VD 16 gives printer as Hieronymus Andreae (i.e. H. Andreae, known as Formschneyder), known to have founded the Fraktur type used in this and other Dürer works; for discussion, cf. "Buchkundlicher Exkurs" by Alvin Jaeggli, in the Zurich, 1966 facsimile ed. of Unterweisung der Messung.
"1. Deutsche Ausgabe ... Ausgabe A"--Meder.
Title page in earliest (no. 1a) of 3 variant states described by Bohatta.
Signatures: A-N⁶ O-Q⁴ (Q4 blank).
Cancels on C5v, fig. 36, lower right; K1r, fig. 26.
Additions to ills. 59 and 61 (sig. P4v and Q1r) on fold. slips attached to the illus.
Illustrations: 2 prints : woodcut ; image 14 x 15 cm., 14 x 19 cm. Subject: Draftsman drawing a seated man; draftsman drawing a lute. Latter signed in block with monogram and dated 1525. References: Meder 268-269; Tietze 939-940; Panofsky, E. Albrecht Dürer, 361-362; Strauss, W.L. Albrecht Dürer, woodcuts, 201-202. -- Ca. 148 prints : woodcut ; double-page (1), full-page or smaller. Numbered as figs. 1-50 (book 1), 1-36 (book 2), 1-62 (books 3-4); some errors in numbering. Chiefly diagrams; include several designs for architectural details and monuments (e.g. figs. 15-17, book 3: a triumphal column; a satirical monument for the Peasants' War, 1525; a monument for a drunkard). References (monuments): Meder XXVI; Tietze 938 a-d; Panofsky 454; Strauss 205 a-c. Two figs. (59 and 61, book 4) are extended by means of flaps, on which the observer of the constructions is portrayed. References: Tietze 938 e-f. -- Ca. 34 prints : woodcut ; full-page (8) or smaller. Diagrams for and depictions of monumental alphabets (roman and Textur), comprising illustrated instructions for each roman letter (leaves K2r-L3v); full-page diagrams for and depictions of roman alphabets (leaves L4r-L6r); and full-page diagram for and depictions of Textur alphabets (leaves M2r-M3r).
Ill. perhaps cut by the presumed printer, Formschneyder; cf. Panofsky, I, p. 46; Jaeggli.
Errata: leaf Q3v.
Extent
[180] p. (p. [179-180] blank) : 31 cm. (fol.)
Extent of Digitization
This object has been completely digitized.
Language
German

Collection Information

Repository
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number
1971 Folio 561

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Early works to 1800
Manuscript waste (Binding)
Material
ill. ;
Subject (Topic)
Measurement
Art
Technique
Geometrical drawing
Lettering
Alphabets
Perspective
Subjects
Measurement > Early works to 1800
Art > Technique > Early works to 1800
Geometrical drawing > Early works to 1800
Lettering > Early works to 1800
Alphabets > Early works to 1800
Perspective > Early works to 1800
Ordlinger, L. > Autograph

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Catalog Record
3454780
Object ID (OID)
2019818

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