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Title-border with peasants and dragons; there is a female peasant on the left, with a flask in one hand and a camera tripod in the other. On the right a male peasant carrying a barefoot child. The peasants are walking on grapes, i think. There is a dragon in each corner of the page.
At the top centre is a cherub or putto, a naked boy (no wings), who appears to be standing in a conflagration of fire, about to be buend alive by the upper two dragons.
This woodcut border was used on the title-page to Johannes Ferrarius, Marburg, and was printed by Franciscus Rhodus. The date on the title page is 1524, although it’s thought that the book was actually published in 1533.
Woodcut and letterpress.
There is also a version of this image with just an empty space instead of text, to make it easier to use. Border with dragons and peasants.
The British Musuem has a copy of this page, and notes that the design is attribtued to Georg Lemberger of Marburg.
The book has the following notes, in German, which i have translated online (the original German follows):
Plate 96.
Title border from the office of Michael Sachs "Zum Leoparden" in Erfurt. The composition and the technical execution of this decoration are equally excellent. The former is a masterpiece of the Saxon school. One might think of Cranach, were it not for some features that are foreign to him. The monsters reveal, in addition to great imagination, a surprising skill in drawing. The remaining figurative elements are also exceptionally appealing and highly original. The latter strongly reminds us of the form cutter Hans Brösamer, who lived in Erfurt but is said to have not yet been active at the time this decoration was created (1525), which remains to be investigated. We draw attention to the diagonal hatching of the background, which at that time was found almost exclusively in the woodcuts of the Saxon school.
In original size.
p. 71
Tafel 96.
Titelbordure aus der Offizin des Michael Sachs «zum Leoparden» in Erfurt. Die Composition, wie die technische Ausführung dieser Verzierung sind gleich vorzüglich. Die erstere ist ein Meisterwerk der sächsischen Schule. Man könnte an Cranach denken, hätte sie nicht Manches, diesem Fremdes an sich. Die Ungethüme verrathen neben grosser Fantasie eine überraschende Fertigkeit im Zeichnen. Auch das übrige Figürliche ist ungemein ansprechend und höchst originell. Die letztere erinnert uns stark an den Form-schneider Hans Brösamer, der in Erfurt lebte, jedoch um die Zeit der Anfertigung dieser Verzierung (1525) noch nicht in Thätigkeit gewesen sein soll, was noch zu untersuchen wäre. Wir machen auf die diagonale Schraffirung des Hintergrundes aufmerksam, welche zu jener Zeit fast einzig in den Holzschnitten der sächsischen Schule vorkommt. In Originalgrösse.
(p. 71)
