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Der Ritter vom Turn (The Knight of the Tower)

Illustrated by: Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528)
Author: Geoffroy de Latour Landry (14th century)
Printer: Johann Knoblouch (German, died in 1528)
1519
Place of Publication: Strassburg, Germany

Medium/Technique Illustrated book with 46 woodcuts
Dimensions Overall: 19.9 x 15.1 x 2.5 cm (7 13/16 x 5 15/16 x 1 in.)
Credit Line Fund in memory of Horatio Greenough Curtis
Accession Number38.739
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Strassburg: Johann Knoblouch, 1519

Catalogue Raisonné Murray, German, 237 (this copy); Meder, Books, VI; Schmidt, Knobloch, 172
Description(Strassburg: Johann Knoblouch, 1519) Quarto; 120 leaves [lacking 13, supplied in facsimile, including six of 46 illustrations]; modern blue-gray paper boards.
ProvenancePirovano; Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), his German catalogue #237; Edouard Rahir; E.P. Goldschmidt & Co., London, from whom purchased by MFA, April 14, 1938.