Herzog Ernsts Ausfahrt

Sporer, Hans, printer, Panzer, Georg Wolfgang, 1729-1805, associated name, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) · 1500 · Erfurt [Hans Spörer] 1500. · 13 pictures

Herzog Ernsts Ausfahrt is a German verse romance printed in Erfurt in 1500 by Hans Spörer, a surviving incunabulum from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection of the Library of Congress. The pages are dense black-letter text set in columns, broken by small woodcut scenes of armoured knights, a ship on water, and courtly figures. A designer might take from them the compact rhythm of gothic blackletter paired with crude, direct woodcut figures that are easy to adapt as stencil-like silhouettes.

Duke of swabia · Erfurt · Ernst · Germany · Ii · Incunabula · Romances

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