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Urs Graf - born Solothurn
with 1485 - 1529/30.

German opponets fo Luther. It became very popular
in France + passed through many editions.

In 1538 the Icons were used to illustrate a Vulgate
by Trechsel of Lyon, + in later years we find them
in other Vulgates as well as in the French edition of the
Louvain Bible in 1550.

Z 1007 C 72 Vol. P+2 Philip Hofer, "Holbein's Old Testament Woodcuts" The new
colophon, I (1948), 161-174.

The popularity of Holbein's Icons is amply evidenced
by the rapid sequence of deitions. Following the 1st Lyon
edition of 1538, with a second issue in the same year,
a new editon appeared with in French text in 1539. The
1543 + 1544 editions had Spanish + French text respectively.
Two french editions were published in Lyon in 1547.
(lDavies, Gerald S. Hans Holbein the Younger, London 1903.
Hans Holbein came to Basel + lived there from 1515 to
1526 - added luster to Fraben's books.

painters fo German Renaissance (made designs for woodcutters)
Durer - Nuremberg Burgkmain - Augsburg
Altdorfer - Ratisbon Cramach - Wittenberg 1472-1553
*Holbein - Basle Baldung - Strassburg

Lucas Can Leyden + Jacob Cornelisz - low countries
- only the printers of Cologns, Schaffner + Grunewald 1460/80 - 1528 are not
responsible for designs of this nature (woodcuts).

Holbein - 1519-26 [inserted] the Old Testament illustrations were cut during this period. [end inserted]worked for Freben, Adam Petri, Andreas Cutander,
+ Thomas Wolff

Geisberg - These small pictures for the Old Testament 60:89mm are far
superior to the Wittenberg illustrations which probably preceded them.
These pictures have no parallel in the Wittenberg Bibles
(Woodcutter - Lutzelburger who settled in Basel in 1522)
-> died before 1526 Holbein -> designs for the Old Testament.