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HORN BOOK -- Creation woodcut, first used in the Coverdale Bible [Cologne and/or Marburg: Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?, 1535], mounted on a wooden paddle (280 x 165mm) and glazed with horn, affixed with leather strips secured by 'rose-he...

Auction 06.06.2001
06.06.2001
Schätzpreis
3.000 £ - 5.000 £
ca. 4.203 $ - 7.006 $
Zuschlagspreis:
7.638 £
ca. 10.702 $
Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 23

HORN BOOK -- Creation woodcut, first used in the Coverdale Bible [Cologne and/or Marburg: Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?, 1535], mounted on a wooden paddle (280 x 165mm) and glazed with horn, affixed with leather strips secured by 'rose-he...

Auction 06.06.2001
06.06.2001
Schätzpreis
3.000 £ - 5.000 £
ca. 4.203 $ - 7.006 $
Zuschlagspreis:
7.638 £
ca. 10.702 $
Beschreibung:

HORN BOOK -- Creation woodcut, first used in the Coverdale Bible [Cologne and/or Marburg: Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?, 1535], mounted on a wooden paddle (280 x 165mm) and glazed with horn, affixed with leather strips secured by 'rose-head' iron tacks, the handle incised with a cross and with a hole for carrying strap (small unobtrusive tear to printed leaf). An early and impressive example of a child's learning tool, this horn book is particularly notable for its Creation woodcut. This woodcut first appeared in the Coverdale Bible (the first edition of the Bible in English); it was re-used in subsequent 16th-century English Bibles. The image, with its two horizontal compartments of 3 images depicting the 6 days of Creation, derives iconographically from a Creation woodcut in the first illustrated Italian bible (Venice: Ragazzo, for Luc Antonio Giunta, 1490). Cf. STC 2063; cf. Herbert 18 Together with : 4 other horn books -- A wooden horn book (142 x 72mm), the recto with printed alphabet on paper leaf glazed with horn and edged with brass strips secured by metal tacks, the handle with hole for carrying strap; a wooden horn book (122 x 51mm), the recto with printed alphabet on bone, glazed with horn secured by brass strips secured with iron tacks, the handle with hole, framed (lacking 3 tacks, 1 brass strip loose); a leather-covered horn book (110 x 75mm), the recto with manuscript alphabet and vowels in red ink on paper; a bone horn book (123 x 71mm) engraved with alphabet in black pigment with flower motif below, handle with hole, cf. A. Tuer, History of the Horn-Book , London: 1896, cut 46a. In use from the 15th century through to the early 19th century, the hornbook was a popular primer for children. It originally took the form of a sheet of vellum or paper, usually printed with the alphabet or Lord's Prayer, mounted on wood and protected with a thin sheet of horn. It often had a hole in its handle so it could be hung from a child's girdle. The hornbook evolved into various different forms, the ivory or bone hornbook becoming widespread in the latter half of the 18th century and early 19th century (Tuer). (5)

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 23
Auktion:
Datum:
06.06.2001
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
London, King Street
Beschreibung:

HORN BOOK -- Creation woodcut, first used in the Coverdale Bible [Cologne and/or Marburg: Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?, 1535], mounted on a wooden paddle (280 x 165mm) and glazed with horn, affixed with leather strips secured by 'rose-head' iron tacks, the handle incised with a cross and with a hole for carrying strap (small unobtrusive tear to printed leaf). An early and impressive example of a child's learning tool, this horn book is particularly notable for its Creation woodcut. This woodcut first appeared in the Coverdale Bible (the first edition of the Bible in English); it was re-used in subsequent 16th-century English Bibles. The image, with its two horizontal compartments of 3 images depicting the 6 days of Creation, derives iconographically from a Creation woodcut in the first illustrated Italian bible (Venice: Ragazzo, for Luc Antonio Giunta, 1490). Cf. STC 2063; cf. Herbert 18 Together with : 4 other horn books -- A wooden horn book (142 x 72mm), the recto with printed alphabet on paper leaf glazed with horn and edged with brass strips secured by metal tacks, the handle with hole for carrying strap; a wooden horn book (122 x 51mm), the recto with printed alphabet on bone, glazed with horn secured by brass strips secured with iron tacks, the handle with hole, framed (lacking 3 tacks, 1 brass strip loose); a leather-covered horn book (110 x 75mm), the recto with manuscript alphabet and vowels in red ink on paper; a bone horn book (123 x 71mm) engraved with alphabet in black pigment with flower motif below, handle with hole, cf. A. Tuer, History of the Horn-Book , London: 1896, cut 46a. In use from the 15th century through to the early 19th century, the hornbook was a popular primer for children. It originally took the form of a sheet of vellum or paper, usually printed with the alphabet or Lord's Prayer, mounted on wood and protected with a thin sheet of horn. It often had a hole in its handle so it could be hung from a child's girdle. The hornbook evolved into various different forms, the ivory or bone hornbook becoming widespread in the latter half of the 18th century and early 19th century (Tuer). (5)

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 23
Auktion:
Datum:
06.06.2001
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
London, King Street
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