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Liber Epistolarum Sancti Hieronymi (Book of Letters of Saint Jerome)
Author: Saint Jerome (died 419 or 420)
Copied after: Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528)
Printer: Nicolaus Kesler (active 1471–1510)
Copied after: Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528)
Printer: Nicolaus Kesler (active 1471–1510)
1497
Place of Publication: Basel, Switzerland
Medium/Technique
Illustrated book with one woodcut
Dimensions
Overall: 32 x 23 x 10 cm (12 5/8 x 9 1/16 x 3 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP19594
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsPrints and Drawings
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Basel: Nicolaus Kesler, 1497
Catalogue Raisonné
Goff H-176; Schreiber, Manuel, 4228; BMC III 772; Meder [Books] II, 3rd ed.
Description(Basel: Nicolaus Kesler, 1497) Folio; 529 leaves; half-vellum, marbled paper boards. [NOTE: title-page folio with woodcut on verso has been removed and is filed with Prints under Dürer copies. The volume is stored with German standard books, 1497.]
Third Kesler edition of Jerome's Epistolae, the first being 1489; the second of 1492 contains a Dürer woodcut of St. Jerome Removing a Thorn from the Lion's Foot (Meder 227; Passavant 246; Panofsky 414); this third edition contains a copy of the Dürer (Meder 227.3; Holl. 227, copy b; Illustrated Bartsch 10.504.510.S2). The signed Dürer woodblock is in the Kunstmuseum, Basel.
NOTE: The title-page folio with woodcut on verso has been separated from the volume and filed with Prints under Dürer copies. The volume (without the woodcut) is shelved in standard books Germany 1497.
Third Kesler edition of Jerome's Epistolae, the first being 1489; the second of 1492 contains a Dürer woodcut of St. Jerome Removing a Thorn from the Lion's Foot (Meder 227; Passavant 246; Panofsky 414); this third edition contains a copy of the Dürer (Meder 227.3; Holl. 227, copy b; Illustrated Bartsch 10.504.510.S2). The signed Dürer woodblock is in the Kunstmuseum, Basel.
NOTE: The title-page folio with woodcut on verso has been separated from the volume and filed with Prints under Dürer copies. The volume (without the woodcut) is shelved in standard books Germany 1497.
ProvenanceOwnership inscriptions dated 1596 and 1605 on title page; Bibliothèque de St. Philippe; Joseph Baer & Co., Frankfurt, from whom purchased by MFA, November 1912.