TITLEPAGE BORDER WITH PUTTI IN A THICKET OF BRAMBLES

Abstract

Book Illustrations | Without monogram. 1525. | This title border was first used in Ermanunge zum frid, auff die zwölff artickel der Bawrschafft in Schwaben [Admonitions to keep the peace after the twelve articles of the peasantry of Swabia], Nuremberg (Hans Hergott) 1525.1. It was used subsequently on the title page of M. Luther, Vermanung an die geistlichen versamelt auf dem Riechstag zu Augspurg Anno 1530 [Admonition to the clergy, meeting at the Diet of Augsburg in the year 1530], Nuremberg (Georg Wachter) 1530; and in Joh. Brentius, Wie sich prediger vnd Leyden halten sollen, so der Türck das Teutsch land vberfallen wurde, christliche vnd notturfftige vntericht, 1531 Wittenberg [how the clergy and the laity shall comport themselves if the Turks attack the German land: Christian and needed instructions 1531 at Wittenberg], Nuremberg (Kunigunde Hergotin) 1531.2 | In the wallpaper-like border, seven putti are occupied cutting roses from the intertwined branches of the bush. The design was perhaps inspired by a similar title border in Erasmus of Rotterdam, Midva epistolia de cavsa lvterana, Leipzig (M. Landsberg) 1521 that pictures putti occupied with picking grapes. | Zimmermann3 is not certain of Schoen's authorship of this title border but proposes a "Master of Titlepage Borders with Blossoms" as the designer of this and five other Nuremberg publications. | 1 Schottenloher 1922, pp. 114-115. | 2 The block has now been sawn into four parts. | 3. Zimmermann 1926, pp. 68-69. | - Kuczynski 1870, no. 1706, 1721.