Leaf from the Lübeck Bible: The Numbering of the Children of Israel (Numbers 26:51); Imprint: Printed in Lübeck by Steffen Arndes, November 19, 1494
Printer
Steffen Arndes
German, Lübeck 1450–1519
Artist
Master of the Lübeck Bible (Master A)
South Netherlandish, active 1492–1494
Date1494
Mediumink on rag paper; hand-colored woodcut
Dimensions14 x 9 7/8 in. (35.6 x 25.1 cm)
ClassificationsBook Arts
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina
Object number62.1.1/5
On View
Not on viewPublished ReferencesJustus Bier, "Early Book Art," North Carolina Museum of Art Calendar of Art Events, (May 1962), mentioned on unnumbered page; also in "Catalogue of Early Book Art," cat. no. 24.
"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. 24.
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