Identification title(s): saint columbanus. Sanct[us] colu[m]banus (title on object). Liber chronicarum (series title). Object type: picture book illustration album page object number: rp-p-2016-49-83-10. Inscriptions / brands: inscription, bottom right, written with pen: '117'. Description: a flower calyx with a saint. He has a crook in his hands. The text identifies him as saint columbanus. The print is part of an album. Manufacture. Manufacturer: printmaker: michel wolgemut (studio of), printmaker: wilhelm pleydenwurff (studio of). Place of manufacture: nuremberg. Dating: 1493. Physical features: woodcut pasted on album page; letterpress text; verso with letterpress text. Material: paper technique: letterpress / woodcut / pasting. Dimensions: print: h 70 mm × w 52 mm explanation the woodcut is repeatedly used as a book illustration in the liber chronicarum (or nuremberg chronicle) by hartmann schedel, published in latin and german in 1493. See the latin edition, folio 146r. Subject: what: male saints (with name). Acquisition: unknown 1874. Date: 1493.
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