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Keysere, Arend de, approximately 1450-1489, printer, Kloss, Georg Franz Burkhard, 1787-1854, former owner, Arenberg, Prosper Louis, 1785-1861, former owner, Serrure, Constant Philippe, 1805-1872, former owner, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) · 1483 · Audenarde [Arend de Keysere, before 1483] · 1 picture

A 1483 incunabulum printed at Audenarde (Oudenaarde, Belgium) by Arend de Keysere, a verse romance about the sultan Saladin, later owned by collectors Kloss, Arenberg and Serrure. The single picture is a printer's ornament rather than an illustration: a dense black knotwork cartouche with a pointed top, star and dot motifs, and a braided interlace centre, which a designer could take as a model for strong, symmetrical woodcut borders and figurative knot patterns.

Belgium · Incunabula · Oudenaarde · Poetry · Saladin · Sultan of egypt and syria

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