[Early German illustrated incunable page]
Collection:CSM Museum & Study Collection
Date: c.1475 - 1493
Maker: Anton Sorg
Dimensions:
Image: 123 x 91 mm (12.3 x 9.1 cm)
Sheet: 293 x 206 mm (29.3 x 20.6 cm)
Medium: Black printing ink and pigment on laid paper
Object number: P.100.2
DescriptionHand coloured woodcut illustrated page of text. German text in Gothic Fraktur. Page number 'XLIX' (page 49) verso and recto. Recto, 33 lines of text broken up by the image of a King, throned, receiving a female figure. A four line initial O (woodcut) begins the bottom six lines of the recto. A simple major initial (showing scriptorium influences) on a square ground with some flourishing.
