Art Institute of Chicago
Bookplate of Hildebrand von Brandenburg
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- Date
- c. 1470–80
- Medium
- Woodcut in black with hand coloring on cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper, with inscription in pen and brown ink, laid down on cream laid paper
- Culture
- Germany
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 60691
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
The earliest documented printed ex libris is this hand-colored woodcut arms of Hildebrand von Brandenburg. Hildebrand identified his entire personal library with this woodcut and a standardized inscription before giving it to the Carthusian monastery at Buxheim that he joined around 1480. 143 of his books have been identified, a large collection for a non-royal individual at the time. The inscription Libros historialem Pauli horosii likely refers to the fourth-century priest Paul Orosius’s Seven Books of History Against the Pagans , in which he argued that Christianity was not responsible for the fall of the Roman Empire and all subsequent calamities.
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- Credit line
- The Joseph Brooks Fair Collection
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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