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#317 Bibliotheck Otto Schafer- 192 Holzachuitte von 178 Stocken
Stammer vom Bambler - Meister.
known as "maibluman", lilies of the of the valley, that came
to be widely used in Agsburg + Ulm. G. Zainer
Produced an enormous number of books - 36,000 copies,
over a hundred editions smae off his press + he became
one of the wealthiest citizens of the commercial city of Augsburg.
-the book deals to the story of the redemption of
mankind through Christ
-the earliest illustrated book of G. Zainer - Wintertheil (1471)

Augsburg - 1st printing press established there in 1418 by
G Zainer - total output - around 120 books. Zainer very
likely learned the art of printing from Z Mentelin in Strassburg
[inserted] C. Fairfax murray Z240 M98 [end inserted] #399 1st edition in Latin + German together + the first of
the German text. Gothic letter, 35 long lines to a full
page. Folion 310x215mm. There are 192 boldly designed cuts
74x119mm each to double borderline. Only 16/15 of the 192 cuts are said to be repeats.
1) Glassa Orfinaria (Ansulm of Leon)
2) Biblia Pamperum d. 1117
3) Speculum Lumanae salvationis
works which dictated the
manner in which subjects
drawn from the Bible should be
heated in art.
-seems to have been composed
by Ludolph of Saxony, a Dominican friar abouth the year 1324.
There are 42 chapters each containing a hundred lines of Latin verse.
4) Postillae - Nicholas de Lyra - checked artistic license + restrained
popular enthusiesm - made it his prime concern to
arrive at an exact understanding of the literal sense of
Scripture.

The lines of scriptural interpretation which prevailed throughout
the middle ages were laid down by Augustine when he
said, "In the Old Testament the new lies hid; in the
New Testament the Old becomes clean" (Comm. in
Exodum 73)
The basic function of the Speculum is to show how
incidents in the life of Christ are prefigured by many