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In: Printers, Colourists, Illuminators, and the Standardisation of Book Decoration in Nuremberg, 1470–1530
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The index includes material in the main text of the book, but not the Appendices. Printed books are indexed under the name of the printer, and filed underneath the general subheadings.

acanthus patterns . see Bohemian tendrils
Altdorfer, Albrecht 211
amateur colourists 14, 128–129, 145, 155
Amerbach, Johannes 54
Amman, Jost 256, 257, 259
Anne of Bohemia, woodcut portraits of 177, 179, 180
annotations 152
Antonio of Bergamo 31
Antwerp 136
apothecaries 130
armorials 31–32, 105, 123
armour, colouring of 137, 138–140
art-historical scholarship 17–19, 300–301
artisans . see artist-practitioners
artist-practitioners . colourists
activities of 260, 262–263, 270–285, 289–292
depicted in the Book of Trades 256–257, 259, 289–292
regulation of 265–267
workshops of 261, 274, 301–302
Asia, printing in 158
atmospheric perspective, in coloured prints 133
Augsburg 3, 32
Avignone, Antonio d’ 31
Baldung (Grien), Hans 211
Bämler, Johann 32, 46, 156, 294
bankruptcy 3
Barbarossa, Hareddin 188
batch colouring . stylistic conventions of batch colouring
of broadsides 170–172, 174–181, 184–187, 191–192, 257, 283–285
definition of 4
division of labour and 217, 268–269
identification of 160–161, 295–299
of incunabula 87–101, 105–123, 137–145, 151, 155–156, 294–295
of monumental prints 202–205, 283, 285
practice of 20–21, 294–295
of single-leaf prints 223–227
of sixteenth-century books 213–217, 219, 224, 228–247, 251–254
batch illumination 4, 19–20, 46–63, 64–83, 217, 268–269, 293–294
Bauer, Hans 273
Beck, Leonhard 228, 231–233
Behaim, Martin, Erdapfel (globe) 273
Beham, Barthel 173
Beham, Sebald
career as artist 59, 262
Feast of Herod 196, 205, 283, 285
Fountain of youth 196, 283–284
Landsknechte and military prints 182, 184, 186, 188, 189, 191, 299
Old Testament patriarchs 192, 193
portrait broadsides 181
religious woodcuts 225–227
Bibles, printed
Cologne Bible 59, 62, 89
Gutenberg Bible 23–27, 30, 85, 86, 136
Hochfeder (1493) 70, 72
Koberger, Biblia Germanica (1483) 20, 59–61, 89–105, 108, 110, 129, 145n88
Koberger, Latin Bibles (1490s) 64, 68–69
Koberger, Menardus Bible (1478) 46, 47–48, 50, 52
Lotter Luther Bibles 247, 248–249
Lufft Luther Bibles 247, 251, 252–253
Peypus Luther Bible (152400) 12, 21, 236–247, 254, 276, 278–279
Sensenschmidt (1475) 46, 49, 51, 52
vernacular 89–90
Biblia pauperum 85–86
bibliographic scholarship 14, 17–19, 300–301
binders 31, 136, 149, 265n37, 295
binding 4, 31, 134, 134n68, 135n70, 300
bleaching, of prints 298
blockbooks 85–86
blue pigments 131, 133, 243, 268n52
Bohemian tendrils
in manuscripts 27
in printed books 19, 32–52, 59, 64–69, 73–76, 217–218, 294
Boner, Ulrich, Der Edelstein 87, 88
book dealers and sellers 1, 24, 31, 136, 149, 265n37
Book of Trades 256–260, 290–292
books . see manuscripts; printed books
Books of Hours . see prayer books
Books of Secrets 130, 131
brazilwood 130, 243
Breu, Jörg the Elder 211
Briefmaler . see colourists
broadsides
audiences for 172–174, 181
batch colouring of 170–172, 174–181, 184–187, 191–192, 283–285
colophons 170, 270–271
definition of 160, 160n10
format of 6–7, 160, 182, 192, 205
market for 20–21, 181, 205, 285, 289, 302
playing cards and 159–160
printers of 161, 180, 182, 270–271, 273–276, 283, 286–289
relationship to book illustrations 6–7
subjects of 159–160, 173, 174, 181–182, 187, 192
unique colouring of 166, 284–285
use of 173–174, 180–181, 182
xylographic 274, 275
Brosamer, Hans 177
Bruges, illuminators in 29
Brunswick Monogrammist, Tavern scene 182, 183, 195
buckthorn yellow 133
Burgkmair, Hans 211, 228, 263
buyers . collectors
book market and 1–2, 31, 135, 255, 299–300
of broadsides 160, 299–300
commissioners of decoration 31, 101
expectations of 8–9, 10, 130
card games 158–159
card painters (Kartenmaler) 159, 259–260, 260n12, 264, 265–266
carmine lake 130–131, 133
cataloguing, of books and prints 295–297
Celtis, Conrad
Opera hrosvite 70, 71, 146, 148
Quator libri amorum 15, 16
St Sebald broadsides 161–162
China 85
cloth makers, and printing 158
collaboration, among craftsmen 257, 263, 291. division of labour
collectors 6, 184, 207, 297–298
Columbus, Ferdinand 224–225, 227
Imhoff family 198, 201, 201n89
Praun, Paulus 201, 201n90
Cologne Bible 59, 62, 89
Colombe, Jean 29
Cólon, Hernando (Ferdinand Columbus) 224–225, 227
colour
absence of 206–209
appeal of 9, 86, 155, 237, 255, 300, 302
in catalogues 296
function of, in coloured illustrations 141, 188, 191, 195, 230, 236
modern scholarship and 14, 17–19
woodcuts designed for 188, 191, 227, 299
colouring, by amateurs 14, 128–129, 145, 155
colouring industry
records about 149, 265
size and activity of 146, 206, 295, 299, 301–302
colourists
activities of 21, 260, 267, 270–272, 273–276, 285–292
Briefmaler, as term for 260, 266–267, 266n38, 270–271
depicted in the Book of Trades 257–260, 289–292
development of standardised style 105, 108, 110–123, 130, 146, 149
other artist-practitioners and 136, 156, 159, 265–269, 289–292
pigments used 130–134, 192–195, 194n77, 221, 243, 268n52
printers and 224, 242, 247, 251
regulation of 265–267
working practices of 101, 108, 128–129, 145, 149, 156
workshops of . see workshops
colour notation systems 128–129
colour printing 9–10, 225n28, 302
Columbus, Ferdinand 224–225, 227
condition . survivorship
of batch-coloured books 243, 251
of coloured prints 180, 181, 184, 198
contracts, for Nuremberg Chronicle 129, 134, 135, 268, 269
copper blue 131, 133, 243, 268n52
copper green 131, 268n52
copy-census research 296, 299
Corpus iuris civilis (1530) 276, 277
costs
of books 111, 134–135, 136, 219, 242, 251
of prints 160, 172–173, 285
craftsmen . see artist-practitioners
Cranach, Lucas the Elder 99, 177, 211, 247, 248, 263
Cranach, Lucas the Younger 251
Creussner, Friedrich
printing career 5, 208n108
Auslegung der heiligen Messe 56, 57–58
Facetiae 76
Zeitglöcklein des Lebens und Leidens Christi 145–146, 147
customisation
lack of, in batch-decorated books 43, 59, 123, 251
of manuscripts 7
of printed books 4, 8, 14–15, 123
of printed images 152, 206–207
damaged books and prints . see condition
décor, prints used as 180–181, 182–184, 195–196, 198, 201–202, 205, 300
deluxe batch colouring 213–217, 219–224, 228–247, 251, 254, 294
devotional images . see religious images
division of labour 129, 217, 260–263, 268–269, 271–272, 291
drapery, colouring of
with gold 221, 240
modelling 94, 111, 133, 145, 156, 177
with opaque pigments 195, 237
drawings 6, 128, 211
Dürer, Albrecht
career as artist 6–7, 262–263
Crucifixion (1516) 12, 221–223, 237, 240–244, 279, 282
drawings for Maximilian I’s prayer book 211
Maximilian portrait 174–176
St Sebald broadside 162
Syphilitic Man broadside 162, 165, 166, 167–168
Triumphal Arch 20, 196–205, 286
economy, early modern 260–262, 301–302
Egypt 85
engravings 18, 29, 206–207, 254, 255, 264, 267
Erdapfel (globe) 273
Este, Francesco d’, playing cards of 159
Estienne, Henri 1–2
Etzmaler (etching painter) 264, 265
exhibitions of coloured prints 18, 297
extra-illustration 293
Eyb, Gabriel von, Bishop of Eichstätt 220, 221
Eyck, Jan van 128
faces, colouring of 131, 134, 137, 141, 177, 195, 217
fading, of colouring 198
Ferdinand I of Austria, later Holy Roman Emperor
distribution of Theuerdank 228, 229
woodcut portraits of 177, 178, 180
Feyerabend, Sigmund, Book of Trades 256–260, 290–292
financiers, of book printing 4, 30, 89, 135
Flötner, Peter 159, 287–289
Folz, Hans 272n64
Formschneider (woodblock-cutters) 257, 259–260, 262, 267–268, 270–272, 291
Frankfurt Fair 1–2
Freydal 228
Fridolan, Stephan 110, 153. Schatzbehalter
Froschauer, Christoph 136
Fürstenkolorit 254
Fust, Johann 23n1, 30, 31
Fust Master 30–31, 30n18, 294
Fust-Schöffer press 9, 10, 30, 86–87, 156
gambling 158–159, 187
Geisberg, Max, Single-leaf woodcut 297
Gessner, Conrad, Historia animalia 128, 136
Ghent, illuminators in 29
Glaser, Hans 188
glass painters 262
Glockendon, Albrecht 276, 279–285, 289
Glockendon, Georg 20, 273–276, 289
Glockendon, Johann 274, 276
Glockendon, Nikolaus 276, 277
gold leaf and paint 202, 214, 221, 279
Göttingen Model Book 29, 30
green pigments and watercolours 131, 133, 268n52
guilds 29, 262–264, 272
Guldenmund, Hans
as colourist of Triumphal Arch 202
colourist’s workshop of 192, 194
printing career 5, 20, 208, 208n110, 285–289
broadside series 192–193, 287–289
Das Bapstum mit seynen gliedern gemalet und beschryben 286, 287
Ein wunderliche Weissagung von dem Bapstum 287
Landsknechte broadsides 182, 184, 186, 189–190, 191–192
portrait broadsides 177
Triumphal Procession of Charles V 289, 290
Gutenberg, Johann 8, 23n1, 24, 30
Gutenberg Bible 23–27, 30, 85, 86, 136
Hamer, Steffan 272
Hamer, Wolfgang 273–274
Hardouyn, Gillet and Germain 220
hawthorn, dyes made from 131
Heinrich IV von Absberg, Bishop 73
Hochfeder, Caspar
printing career 5, 208
Latin Bible (1493) 70, 72
Holle, Lienhart 87
Höltzel, Hieronymus
printing career 5, 20, 208n108, 217, 220, 220n18
Eichstätt Missal 220–224
Reformation der Stadt Nürnberg (1503) 149, 150, 217, 219
Salus anime 21, 213–220
Holzschuher, Margarete 33, 35
Hrotsvitha, Opera hrosvite 70, 71, 146, 148
humanists 70, 173, 181, 187
Huys, Frans, The lute-maker’s shop 182, 183, 195
hybrid books 8
illuminations . see initials; margin decorations
illuminators
activities of 260, 271, 272, 276, 279, 283, 289–292
Fust Master 30–31, 30n18, 294
Koberger’s workshop of 39, 43, 45–46, 52, 54, 70
relationship to other trades 21, 31, 156, 259–260, 265–267, 276, 291
standardisation and 4–5, 24, 29–30, 32, 43, 294–295
Stuchs’ workshop of 73, 76, 83
working practices of 29–30, 43, 46, 156, 268–268
workshops of 29, 43, 52
illustrated broadsides . see broadsides
illustrations in printed books
batch colouring of, fifteenth century 20, 87–101, 105–123, 137–145, 151, 155–156, 294–295
batch colouring of, sixteenth century 21, 213–217, 219, 224, 228–247, 251–254
function of 152–153, 155
relationship to broadsides 6–7
relationship to miniatures 233–236, 247
unique colouring of 101, 145–146, 151, 224, 228–229, 254
Imhoff, Hans VI, prayer book of 276, 279, 281
Imhoff collection 198, 201, 201n89
impact, of printing
on artist-practitioners 4–5, 24, 29–30, 111, 156, 293–295, 301
on the dissemination of knowledge 21–22, 301
on readers 153
incunabula
appearance of 4, 8–10, 14, 24, 31, 210, 300–301
in databases 295–296
market for 2–4, 31, 63, 89–90, 135
individualism 263–264
initials
batch illuminated 19–20, 46–63, 64–83, 217, 268–269, 293–294
for colour notation 128–129
printed 5, 9–10, 10, 276
inventories 201, 201n89, 201n90, 224–225
Islamic world 188
Italy, book market in 31
jigsaw prints 9
Kalbe, Ulrich Rülein von, Bergbüchlein 128–129
Kammermeister, Sebastian 129
Kartenmaler (card painters) 159, 259–260, 260n12, 264, 265–266
Koberger, Anton
batch colouring and 6, 89–101, 105–123, 130, 136, 294
batch illumination and 6, 32, 33, 35–54, 59–70, 83, 294
binding of books 134–135, 134n68, 135n70
colourist’s workshop 45, 90, 99–101, 108–111, 118, 128–131, 146
illuminator’s workshop 39, 43, 45–46, 52, 54, 56, 70
life and career 33, 35, 208n108, 220n18
printing business 3, 5, 63–64, 89–90, 101, 105
sale and distribution of books 3, 59, 63, 89, 101, 111, 134–136
Biblia Germanica (1483) 20, 59–61, 89–105, 108, 110, 129, 145n88
De consolatione philosophiae 39, 43, 44, 45
De imagine mundi 35–38, 45
Der Heiligen Leben 59, 63, 110
De vita et moribus philosophrum 35, 39, 40–42
Latin Bibles (1490s) 64, 68–69
Menardus Bible (1478) 46, 47–48, 50, 52
Nuremberg Chronicle . see Nuremberg Chronicle
Pantheologia 45
Reformation der Stadt Nürnberg (1484) 105–110, 134n68, 145n88, 151
Schatzbehalter . see Schatzbehalter
Summa universae theologiae 52, 53, 54, 55
Koberger-Stil 46, 52–56, 64–73, 70, 73, 83, 294
lakes, carmine and madder 130–131
landscapes, colouring of 111, 133–134, 141
Landsknechte 160, 181–192, 297, 299
Latin 22
lead-tin yellow 131, 133
Lemberger, Georg 247, 249–250
letterpress, association with images 6–7, 207, 208
levels of decoration
in books 59, 63, 64, 219, 242–243, 251
in broadsides 162, 166
Liber chronicarum . see Nuremberg Chronicle
libraries
early modern 1–2
modern 19, 295–296
literacy 153, 173
liturgical books
Auslegung der heiligen Messe 56, 57–58
Eichstätt Missal 220–224
Mainz Psalter 86–87
Missale Bambergense 242
Missale der Nürnberger Färberzunft 279, 282
Missale Dominorum Teutonicorum  143, 145
Obsequiale Augustense 10, 11
Obsequiale Ratisponense 73, 75, 132, 141–143, 219, 268–269
Lotter, Melchior the Elder 247, 248–249
Lufft, Hans 247, 251, 252–253
Luther, Martin
Bible translation 236, 247
portrait broadside of 174
Luther Bibles
Lotter publications 247, 248–249
Lufft publications 247, 251, 252–253
Peypus (1524) 12, 21, 236–247, 254, 276, 278–279
Mack family of printer-illuminators 285
madder lake 130–131
Mainz Psalter 86–87
Mair, Hans 137, 141
manufactories 301–302
manufacturers, early modern 260–261
manuscripts
customisation of 7
decoration in 4, 9, 19, 27–29, 54, 293
illuminated by Glockendon family 276, 279, 280–281
printed books and 8–9, 10, 14, 210–211, 230, 233–236
production of 2–3, 31, 210, 220
margin decorations
in the Gutenberg Bible 24–27
in manuscripts 27–29
in Maximilian’s prayer book 211, 212
in Nuremberg printed books 32–52, 59, 64–69, 73–76, 217–218, 293–294
markets
for broadsides 20–21, 181, 205, 285, 289, 302
for printed books 1–4, 21–22, 31, 63, 89–90, 135, 210
mass-production 254n65. print runs
master copies 128, 229
master prints 207
Maximilian I
Dürer’s portrait of 174–176
prayer book 210–211, 212
Theuerdank 21, 227–236, 286, 298
Triumphal Arch  20, 196–205, 286
unfinished printing projects 129–130, 227–228
Meldemann, Nikolaus
printing career 5, 208, 208n110
Landsknechte and military prints 182, 184, 185, 191
Old Testament patriarchs 192, 193
Mennel-Master 156
mercenaries . see Landsknechte
merchants 260–261
Meuler, Paulus 267
military processions, images of 192
miniatures 10, 13, 233–236, 247
Missale Bambergense 242
Missale der Nürnberger Färberzunft 279, 282
modelling, of drapery . see drapery, colouring of
models, use of 27–30, 39, 43, 46, 156, 293
monasteries 158
monumental woodcuts 173, 195–205, 283, 285
motifs 29, 30, 46
multi-block prints . see monumental woodcuts
Münzer, Hieronymus 3
museums 296–297
Negker, Jost de 129–130
Neudörfer, Johann 43, 45, 273
nomenclature, of artisans 270–272
Nuremberg
importance of 5–6
printing and book market in 1, 3, 5–6, 155–156
regulation of trades 264–267, 272
Triumphal Arch in castle 202, 286
Nuremberg Chronicle
batch colouring of 118–127, 134, 136, 269
batch illumination of 64–67, 269
contracts for 129, 134–135, 268, 269
cost and sale of 134–135, 298
illustrations 118, 123, 152, 154, 155
Schedel’s own copy 65, 118, 119, 123, 124, 162, 293
surviving copies of 145n88, 149, 298
Nürnberger Ratsverlässe . see Ratsverlässe
orange pigments 193, 194
Order of St George 210–211
orpiment 131, 133
Ottheinrich, Count Palatine, manuscript Epistles 276, 279, 280
Ottoman Empire 181, 187–188
owners . collectors
of printed books 8–9, 14–15, 151–153, 208, 243, 300
of prints 207
Padua 31
Painted Prints exhibition 18, 297
painters 263
palettes, used by colourists 130–134, 141, 192–195, 194n77, 197, 230
paper 158
paper supports 219, 228–229, 236, 242–247
parchment supports
batch colouring and 219, 228–229, 236–237, 243–247
for broadsides 289
cost of 242
as marker of deluxe edition 21, 210–211, 213–214, 221, 251
Paris 29
Pascha, Ibrahim, Ottoman Grand Vizier 191
patricians of Nuremberg 202
Pavia, Cristoforo da 31
Pencz, Georg 170–171, 192
personalisation . see customisation
Peypus, Friedrich, Luther Bible (1524) 12, 21, 236–247, 254, 276, 278–279
Pfinzing, Melchior 286
Pfinzing, Ulrich 229
Pfister, Albrecht 20, 87–88, 156
Piccolomini, Aeneas Silvius (Pope Pius III) 23–24
pigments, used by colourists 130–134, 192–195, 194n77, 221, 237, 268n52
Pius III, Pope 23–24
playing cards 158–160
Pleydenwurff, Wilhelm 118, 129, 268
portrait broadsides 174–181, 188, 286
portraits, painted 176
Praun, Paulus 201, 201n90
prayer books 213, 219–220, 255
of Hans VI Imhoff 276, 279, 281
of Maximilian I 210–211, 212
Salus anime 21, 213–220
Zeitglöcklein des Lebens und Leidens Christi 145–146, 147
print culture . see impact, of printing
printed books
appearance of 4–5, 7–10, 14, 210
illustrations . see illustrations in printed books
manuscripts and 8–9, 10, 14, 210–211, 230, 233–236
market for 1–4, 21–22, 31, 63, 89–90, 135, 210
printers . individual printers
batch colouring and 89, 136, 155–156
batch illumination and 1–32, 24, 56, 83, 294
book market and 1, 22, 224, 242, 255, 299–300, 302
of broadsides 161, 180, 182, 270–271, 273–276, 283, 286–289
deluxe batch colouring and 211, 213, 219–220, 224, 254–255
in museum catalogues 297
nomenclature of 270–272, 274, 283, 289
workshops of 45, 274
printing industry
development of 2–3, 158
impact of . see impact, of printing
precarity of 3–4, 87, 89, 242
professionals involved in 257
printing presses 2, 3
print runs 172, 173, 254n65
private collections 297–298
proto-industrialisation 261, 301–302
provenance of printed books 15, 43
Puchheim, Georg von 229
putting-out system 261
Quentell, Heinrich, Cologne Bible 59, 62, 89
Ratdolt, Erhard 10, 11
Ratsverlässe 264–268, 272, 291
Rauch, Matthäus 193–194
readers of illustrated books 152–153
reading, activity of 153
reagal 131
red pigments and watercolours 131, 132
Reformation 173, 206, 236
regulation of trades 259–260, 265–267
relic books 137–141
relics, imperial 137
religious images 158, 206–208, 224–227, 251
research, of batch decoration 19, 295–299
rubrication 14–15, 16, 31
Rügsherren 264–268, 291
Rusch, Adolf 54
Sachs, Hans 170–171, 188, 256, 257, 259, 287
saffron 131
salaries 134, 172
Sansaco, Ottoman general 190
sap green 131, 133
Schatzbehalter
batch decoration of 20, 110–118, 269
illustrations 111, 153, 155
sale and ownership of 135, 135n70, 153
surviving copies of 145n88, 151, 269, 298
Schäufelein, Hans 159, 192, 194, 195, 289, 290
Schedel, Hartmann
authorship of Nuremberg Chronicle 64, 70
collection of 64, 162, 293, 296
commissioner of illumination and colouring 52, 70, 146, 166, 275
own copy of Nuremberg Chronicle 65, 118, 119, 123, 124, 162, 293
Scheurl, Christoph 264
Schlossmuseum, Gotha 298–299
Schöffer, Peter 30. Fust-Schöffer press
Schön, Erhard
printmaking career 6, 264
broadside series 192, 287
Distribution of foolscaps 283
Landsknechte and military prints 184, 185, 187, 299
Peypus Bible woodcuts 236
playing cards 159
portrait broadsides 176–180, 181
War between mice, rats, cats, and dogs 284–285
Schönsperger, Johann
pirated Nuremberg Chronicle 135
Theuerdank 21, 227–236, 286, 298
Schreyer, Sebald 129, 162
sculptors 263
sellers, of books 1, 24, 31, 136, 149, 265n37
Sensenschmidt, Johann
printing career 5, 33
Bible (1475) 46, 49, 51, 52
Moralia in sive Expositio in Job 32–33, 34, 39, 43
Sensenschmidt, Johann, and Andreas Frisner, Repertorium utriusque iuris 54, 56
series, of broadsides 192–193, 195, 205, 287
single-leaf prints 6–7, 17–18, 20–21, 205–209, 224–227. broadsides
sky, colouring of 90, 111, 131, 134, 156, 214, 221
Solis, Virgil 159
specialisation 260–264, 265–269, 272, 289
Sporer, Hans 273
Springinklee, Hans
career of 6, 242, 264
Eichstätt Missal woodcuts 221
Peypus Bible woodcuts 236, 237, 238–240, 245–246, 278
stained-glass windows, designers of 128, 262
standardisation
of book decoration 19–22, 300–302
of book illustration colouring 105–123, 130, 156–157, 170, 224, 294–295
of broadside colouring 61, 170, 176–180, 191–192, 193–195
of initials 52–63, 64–84, 294
of knowledge and language 22, 301
in manuscripts 4, 19, 27–29, 54, 293
of marginal motifs 29–32, 33, 35–43, 46–52, 73–76
of other manufactured items 300–302
stencils
in Book of Trades 257, 258, 291
evidence of 160–161
surviving examples of 160–161n12
use of, in batch colouring 134, 159, 170–172, 176, 202, 295
Strada, Antonio 31
Strasbourg 270–271, 272n64
Stuchs, Georg
batch illumination and 73–83
printing career 5, 208n108
Missale Dominorum Teutonicorum  143, 145
Obsequiale Ratisponense 73, 75, 132, 141–145, 219, 268–269
St Dionysius broadside 166, 169
St Ulrich and Afra, monastery 3
stylistic conventions of batch colouring
in books, fifteenth-century 133–134, 137, 141, 145, 146, 156, 275
in books, sixteenth-century 219, 221, 224, 236–243, 254–255
in broadsides 161, 166, 170–172, 174–180, 184–187, 193–195
changing norms of 177, 192, 195, 208–209, 219, 224
persistence of 170, 254–255
in prints, fifteenth-century 177, 275
Suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan 174, 181, 188, 189
sumptuary laws 86, 187
survivorship
bias 149, 207–208, 299
of broadsides 180–181, 187, 196, 198, 201–202, 207, 298–299
of Nuremberg Chronicle 145n88, 149, 298
of printed books 145, 149, 151, 213n11, 243, 298–299
of Schatzbehalter 145n88, 151, 269, 298
of single-leaf prints 207–208, 224–225, 227
syphilis 166
Taxae (tax lists) 130
textile industry 261
Theuerdank 21, 227–236, 286, 298
tone blocks, printing from 9–10, 11
treatises 263
Triumphal Arch 20, 196–205, 286
Tucher, Anton 242, 285–286
Turkish people and culture 187–190. Ottoman Empire
Unckel, Bartholomäus von 89
uncoloured illustrated books 149, 151, 154, 229
uncoloured single-leaf prints 206–209, 224, 227, 285
unique colouring
of broadsides 166, 284–285
of illustrated books 101, 145–146, 151, 224, 228–229, 254
Venice 3, 31
Vérard, Antoine 219–220
Verlagssystem 261
vernacular Bibles and literature 22, 59, 89–90
Vienna, siege of 181–182
viewers of prints . see owners of prints
Vischer, Peter the Elder 137, 137n79
Vischer P., Heiltum zu Nürnberg 137–140
Vostre, Simon 219–220
wages 134, 172
Waldis, Burkhard 287
wallpaper 196, 196n79, 202
watercolours, used by colourists 130–134, 171, 177, 236, 279. pigments, used by colourists
Weigel, Hans the Elder 270, 272
Weigel, Hans the Younger 194, 267
Weiβenburger, Johann 20
Weisskunig 228
Weltchronik . see Nuremberg Chronicle
Wenssler, Michael 54
Wolgemut, Michael
career of 6, 33, 110, 262
Nuremberg Chronicle 118, 119–122, 124–127, 129, 154, 268, 299
Obsequiale Ratisponense  132, 141, 142–143
Reformation der Stadt Nürnberg (1484) 105, 106–107, 109
Schatzbehalter 111, 112–117, 299
St Sebald broadside 161–162, 163–164
women, artisans 264–265, 274
woodblock cutters 257, 259–260, 262, 267–268, 270–272, 291
woodblocks 129–130
woodcuts . broadsides; illustrations in printed books
designed for additional colour 188, 191, 227, 299
monumental 173, 195–205, 283, 285
single-leaf prints 6–7, 17–18, 205–209, 224–227
uncoloured 206–209
workshops
colour notation systems 128–129
of illuminators 29, 43, 52
of Koberger’s colourist 45, 90, 99–101, 108–111, 118, 128–131, 146
of Koberger’s illuminator 39, 43, 45–46, 52, 54, 70
organisation of 99, 101, 129, 265
of other artist-practitioners 261, 274, 301–302
of other printers’ colourists 145, 192, 221, 224, 242
XRF analysis 130
xylographic text 158
yellow pigments and watercolours 131, 133, 243
Zainer, Günther 32

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Printers, Colourists, Illuminators, and the Standardisation of Book Decoration in Nuremberg, 1470–1530

Series:  Library of the Written Word, Volume: 141 and  Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World, Volume: 141
Cover Printers, Colourists, Illuminators, and the Standardisation of Book Decoration in Nuremberg, 1470–1530
E-Book ISBN:
9789004684836
Publisher:
Brill
Print Publication Date:
29 Apr 2026
  • Subjects
    • Book History and Cartography
      • History of the Book
    • History
      • Early Modern History
    • Middle East and Islamic Studies
      • Manuscripts & Printing
Front Matter
Preliminary Material
Copyright Page
Figures
Abbreviations
Introduction Book Decoration in a Precarious Market
Chapter 1 Early Printing in Nuremberg and Batch Illumination
Chapter 2 Illustrated Printed Books and the Appeal of Colour in the Fifteenth Century
Chapter 3 The Single-Leaf Print in Colour: Illustrated Broadsides of the Sixteenth Century
Chapter 4 Print for Princes: Deluxe Batch Colouring
Chapter 5 The Printer-Colourists of Nuremberg
Conclusion: the Proto-industry of Batch Decoration
Back Matter
Printed Books with Standardised Illumination
Illustrated Books with Standardised Colouring
Hand-Coloured Illustrated Broadsides, 1470–1530
Nuremberg’s Printer-Colourists
Availability of Pigments in Nuremberg
Broadside Colophons
Bibliography
Index

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