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Tradierende Drucker

Überlegungen zum Traditionsverhalten in den Schachzabelbüchern deutscher Frühdrucker

A Printers’ Tradition

Considerations on Customs in the Chess Books of Early German Printers
In: Daphnis
Author:
Philip Reich Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Deutschland, philip.reich@gs.uni-heidelberg.de

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The late medieval chess books developed a specific iconographic programm. In the transfer to the incunabula by some printers of southwest Germany (Zainer, Knoblochtzer, Schönsperger), a ‘material tradition’ and a specific behaviour towards traditions is obvious. Moreover, the picture of the deviant eighth pawn is combined with the Low-German parody text Der Boiffen Orden and fool’s literature.

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