Three Monks, Vitas Patrum, Jerome
ID: 
 
1192
 
Original Country: 
 
Germany
 
Creator: 
 
Anton Sorg
 
Creator Role: 
 
publisher
 
Sorting Title: 
 
Three Monks, Vitas Patrum, Jerome
 
Subject: 
 

Three Monks

 
Creation Date: 
 
1482
 
Century: 
 
15th
 
Measurements: 
 
11.2 in x 7.9 in.
 
Format Medium: 
 

Folio; fols. 1v-370v. With 276 contemporary woodcuts. The rare first German edition of these Lives of the Saints once attributed to Saint Jerome, the most profusely illustrated book to emanate from Sorg's press.

 
Specific Location: 
 

fol. 2v.

 
Related Work: 
 

Vitas Sanctorum patrum, sive vitas patrum [Das Buch der heiligen Altväter ]
Goff H217 ; H 8605* ; Schr 4217 ; Schramm IV p.26 & 51 ; Voull(B) 129 ; Deckert 364 ; Hubay(Augsburg) 1049 ; Pr 1686 ; BMC II 350 ; BSB-Ink V-259

 
Current Repository: 
 

Augsburg SStB (2, imperfect) ; Augsburg UB (imperfect, Inc.54) ; Bamberg PriesterSem ; Berlin KunstB (imperfect) ; Berlin SB ; Dresden SLUB (1 leaf only) ; Halle ULB ; Karlsruhe BLB ; Magdeburg KlosterB ; München BSB (imperfect) ; München UB (imperfect) ; Stuttgart WLB ; Tübingen UB ; Ulm StB (imperfect) ; Würzburg UB

 
Repository Number: 
 
British Library IB.5946
 
Secondary Sources: 
 

Le peintre gravure, vol. 83: 1482/993; Der Bilderschmuck der Frühdrucke vol. 4, 882.

 
Contributor: 
 
Margot King
 
Image of Three Monks, Vitas Patrum, Jerome.