A late medieval German poem of advice to young and old women, Der frawen Spiegel defines the ideal qualities, activities, and virtues of married and unmarried women. This rare edition is illustrated with one of the earliest examples of a chiaroscuro woodcut. Made especially for this volume, the illustration shows two women holding up a mirror. One, provocatively dressed, represents the unmarried girl, the other, in more matronly attire, the married woman mentioned in the title.
Alternative Title:
Frauen Spiegel and Frauenspiegel
Description:
Weller gives date of ca. 1520.
Publisher:
[Johann Schoensperger the younger]
Subject (Topic):
Wives --Conduct of life --Early works to 1800 and Women --Conduct of life --Early works to 1800
"Ein ander gaistlich Lied" attributed to Johannes Sanffdorffer in VD 16., Cf. VD 16, W4089, Cf. Wackernagel, P. Bib. zur Geschichte des deutschen Kirchenliedes, 389., Date of publication suggested by VD 16., Final p. blank., Signatures: A⁴., and Woodcut on t.p.
Publisher:
Durch Hans Zimmerman
Subject (Name):
Sanffdorffer, Johann. Ander gaistlich Lied and Zimmermann, Hans, fl. 1549-1570, printer
Final p. blank., Imprint from colophon., Publication date suggested by VD 16., Signatures: A⁴., Signed at end: P.G. [i.e. Pamphilus Gengenbach]., and Woodcut on t.p.
Dialogo in sdruciolo con un capitolo amoroso in sdruciolo & un'altra capitolo di epiteti bellisimo and Dialogo in sdrvciolo con vn capitolo amoroso in sdruciolo e vn'altra capitolo di epiteti bellisimo
Manuscript of 1) Dialogus Samuelis comico stilo exarata incipit foeliciter adolescens: 5 chapters of a dialogue between a young man and a young woman. 2) 8 chapters from a manual on letter writing. Bound with a printed text: Gerson, Jean (1363-142), Sermo de passione domini: Nuper e Galiico... (Strassburg: [Mathias Schuerer], 1510).
Alternative Title:
Enumerat Matheus ...
Description:
The woodcuts in this work are allegorical pictures containing the Evangelists’ symbols and figures referring to the principal subjects dealt with in each gospel. Some are hand-coloured. The leaf containing the first imago for Matthew is missing and is kept separately as MS 907.2
Subject (Name):
Gerson, Jean,--1363-1429
Subject (Topic):
Church year sermons--Early works to 1800, Dialogues, Latin (Medieval and modern), Letter writing--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Palm Sunday