The sheet is from an edition of the Lutheran bible comprising of four volumes and printed on parchment in 1561 for Nikolaus von Ebeleben [Libri in membr. impr. fol. 12-15]. The sheet is located together with a portrait of Luther at the beginning of the first volume.
It illustrates the
The sheet is from an edition of the Lutheran bible comprising of four volumes and printed on parchment in 1561 for Nikolaus von Ebeleben [Libri in membr. impr. fol. 12-15]. The sheet is located together with a portrait of Luther at the beginning of the first volume.
It illustrates the Luther rose framed by a laurel wreath that is decorated with fruit and flowers. The composition is framed with a gilded boarder, which also encompasses a text field above and below the rose.
[Görres, cda 2015]
- Attribution
- Lucas Cranach the Younger
Attribution
Lucas Cranach the Younger | [Fliege 1998, 262] |
- Production date
- 1562
Production date
1562 | [pendant dated] |
- Dimensions
- Dimensions of support (parchment sheet): 37.5 x 25 cm
Dimensions
Dimensions of support (parchment sheet): 37.5 x 25 cm
[Willing-Stritzke in Exhib. Cat. Wittenberg 2015, 390]
- Signature / Dating
The portrait of Luther on the opposite page is signed and dated at the left next to the shoulder: winged serpent with elevated wings, facing right and dated '1562'; in gold
Signature / Dating
The portrait of Luther on the opposite page is signed and dated at the left next to the shoulder: winged serpent with elevated wings, facing right and dated '1562'; in gold
[cda 2015]
- Inscriptions and Labels
in the text field above the rose:
'Symbola magnanimi quam sunt bene nuicta Lutheri,
Crux, rosa, cor luctus laeticiaeqInscriptions and Labels
Inscriptions, Badges:
in the text field above the rose:
'Symbola magnanimi quam sunt bene nuicta Lutheri,
Crux, rosa, cor luctus laeticiaeq[...] note.
Semper in hac vita miscentur gaudia luctu,
Inq[...] locanda vni spesq[...] fidesq[...] Deo'
in the text field below the rose:
'In luctu gaudium . in gaudio luctus :
Gaudium in Domino : lugendum in nobis.
Sünden meidem Ist einn Schrein,
Gedult inn Leidenn leg darein,
Wolthat vor arges thu Das zu,
Trost Inn armut, nun Schleuss zu.'
[cda 2015]
- Owner
- Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz
- Repository
- Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Abt. Historische Drucke
- Location
- Berlin
- CDA ID
- DE_SBB_fol-12-IIr
- FR (1978) Nr.
- FR-none
- Persistent Link
- https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_SBB_fol-12-IIr/