Historiated title page of Luther's Iudicium de votis
A woodcut border on the title page of Luther's Iudicium de votis printed in 1521. The border is done as a single woodcut depicting a monk (left), a nun (right), a Green Man of pagan and Christian lore (bottom), and a bowl of fruit (top). The intermediate spaces are filled with floral and plant decorative motifs.
Cranach, Lucas, 1472-1553
Lotter, Melchior, approximately 1490-
Wittenberg (Saxony-Anhalt, Germany)
Luther, Martin, 1483-1546
Latin
Decoration and ornament
Plants in art
Monks
Nuns
Fruit
Green Man (Tale)
Sixteenth century
21 cm (approx.)
Still image
woodcuts (prints)
Quarto
This work is part of the Richard C. Kessler Reformation Collection.
Iudicium Martini Lutheri de votis : scriptum ad episcopos & diaconos Vuittembergen[sis] ecclesiae
1521 LUTH RRR
The online edition of this work in the public domain, i.e. not protected by copyright, has been produced by Pitts Theology Library.
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