[Biblia Germanica]

Quentell, Heinrich, -1501, printer · Cologne : [Heinrich Quentell] · 52 pictures

This is a Biblia Germanica, a German-language Bible printed in Cologne by Heinrich Quentell, the printer, around the turn of the fifteenth century, with commentary associated with Nicholas of Lyra. The woodcut pictures are small, framed, black-and-white narrative scenes of biblical and moralizing subjects, drawn with dense hatching and simple outlines, offering a designer a clear model for compact, legible medieval-style narrative panels with stylized trees, towers, and architectural backgrounds.

Nicholas, of Lyra, approximately 1270-1349

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