Leaf from the Halberstadt Bible: Title page to the second of two volumes Printed in Halberstadt by Lorenz Stuchs, July 8, 1522
Printer
Lorenz Stuchs
German, active 15th century
Artist
Monogrammist CD (Conrad Drake?)
active circa 1520–1523
DateJuly 8, 1522
MediumInk on paper, woodcut
Dimensions13 1/2 x 10 in. (34.3 x 25.4 cm)
ClassificationsBook Arts
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina
Object number62.1.1/9
On View
Not on view"Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 4, nos. 2 and 3 (Winter-Spring 1964), listed 65.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Early Book Art," May 1962, then traveling, cat. no. 31.
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