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Opus genealogicum Catholicum
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Weischner, Lukas, Jena (w000415)
Author
Reusner, Elias
Title
Opus genealogicum Catholicum
Description
Style: Unspecified; Caption: Upper cover; Colour: Brown; Edge: Gilt, gauffered and painted
Date Binding: 16c
Medium Decorative Technique: Blocked in gold; Cover Material: Calf
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Shelfmark: Davis693
Place of creation Binding: Germany
Object history Text: 1592; Frankfort; Unspecified
Notes With a portrait of Charles V painted in the centre of the upper cover and the Imperial arms in the centre of the lower cover. Macchi states; Other examples of Weischer's work are kept in: Weimar, Anna Amalia library on Biblia Das ist, die gantze heilige Schrift, Teutsch, D. Mart. Luther, Wittemberg, Hans Krafft, 1576, shelfmark 19 B 3134; Disputationes Roberti Belarmini Politiani, Societatis Iesu, de Controversiis Christianae Fidei, ..., Ingolstadii, Ex Officina Typographica Davidis Sartorii, 1588, shelfmark StK9; Martini Lutheri conciones diebus dominicis et festis domi publique habitae, ...In Latinum sermonem a Johanne Wanckelio traductae, Torgae, officina illustri, 1597, shelfmark S 3,8 (Matthias Hageböck, Einbände von Lukas Weischner, p. 48-57); Loitz, Church Library (K. von Rabenau, Ein Werk des braunschweigischen Hofbuchbinders Lukas Weischner, p. 26-27); Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek (H. Härtel, Kostbare Einbände von Lukas Weischner, p. 48); Biblia sacra, Christoph Plantin, Anvers, 1568-1573, 8 vol. (A. Pabel, Ein Werk Lukas Weischners, p. 34); Würzburg, University Library, on Biblia sacra, Christoph Plantin, Anvers, 1568-1573, shelfmark 35/E.3.107 (Angelika Pabel, Ein Werk Lukas Weischners, p. 34). For further literature see A. von Arnim, Einbandkunst, n. 60; I. Schunke, Leben und Werk Jakob Krauses, p. 89; G. A. E. Bogeng, Ein wieder aufgetauchter Weischner-Einband, p. 115 and following; H. Helwig, Jenaer Buchbinder des 16. Jahrhunderts, p. 227, 231-237; H. Herbst, Alte deutsche Bucheinbände, p. 18, pl. X; Idem, Braunschweigische Buchbinder des 16. Jahrhunderts, p. 279, 282-283, 304, 306.
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See M M Foot, The Henry Davis Gift, vol II, London, 1983. Christies London 1 May 1996 no 97

Einband Forschung Heft 32 April 2013 pp42-47
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