Pinder | Speculum passionis, Nuremberg, 1507, contemporary pigskin

Ulrich Pinder

Speculum passionis domini nostri Ihesu Christi. (Nuremberg: [printer for the Sodalitas Celtica, ?Friedrich Peypus], 20 August 1507)

FIRST EDITION, folio (310 x 215mm.), 39 full-page woodcuts (including 5 repeats) of which 36 are by Hans Schaufelein (those at M2v and N2v signed with his monogram and crossed-shovel device) and 3 by Hans Baldung Grien or Wolf Traut, numerous smaller woodcuts, some within ornamental two-part borders, a few initials supplied in red, a few early manuscript annotations, contemporary pigskin over wooden boards, tooled in blind, metal clasps and catches, marginal dampstaining at heard, some wear to binding

First edition of the first book to contain woodcuts signed by Schaufelein, considered one of the most beautiful works of the German renaissance. With the exception of the three woodcuts attributed to Wolf Traut and Hans Baldung Grien, the illustrations were the work of Hans Schaufelein, a native of Nuremberg and student and journeyman of Albrech Dürer. The full-page woodcuts were engraved specially for this book and owe much to Dürer's influence. The small woodcuts come from Pinder's Garten des Rozenkranzes Mariae, published in Nuremberg in 1505. This edition was probably printed by Friedrich Peypus who printed the second edition in 1519 for Georg Glockendon. Peypus published other books, including the work of the Benedictine canoness Hrosvita of Gandersheim, for the Sodalitas Celtica, a group of friends formed around the celebrated humanist Conrad Celtes.

LITERATURE

Fairfax Murray, Early German Books 333; Holstein II, 128; VD16 P2807