The Tell-Tale Iconic Book
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/post.v6i1-3.117Keywords:
icon, Bible, book, woodcut, sixteenth centuryAbstract
This study draws on the corpus of images from sixteenth-century publications available in the Digital Image Archive to explore how books are used in printed images related to biblical interpretation. The investigation finds that images of books are used to indicate: (1) authorship of biblical works; (2) defend the orthodoxy of later writers; (3) to affirm the learning, piety, and social standing of certain writers, saints, and other figures from antiquity; (4) to contend that the message and ministries of certain biblical figures were based on Scripture; and (5) to link antiquity with the Early Modern period.
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Von Ubisch, E. 1889. Virgil Solis und seine biblischen Illustrationen für den Holzschnitt. Leipzig: Ramm & Seemann.
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Wendland, Henning. 1984. Signete: Deutsche Drucker- und Verlegerzeichen, 1457–1600. Hannover: Schlüterschen Verlagsanstalt.
Brown, Karin Brinkman. 1996. “Dietenberger, Johann.” In The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation, 1: 484–485. New York: Oxford University Press.
Cochlaeus, Johannes. 1529. Septiceps Lutherus. Leipzig: Valentin Schumann.
Cole, Richard G. 1984. “Reformation Printers: Unsung Heroes.” The Sixteenth Century Journal 15: 337–339. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2540767
Cross, F. L. and Elizabeth A. Livingstone, eds. 2005. “Gregory I., St.” In The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd ed., rev., 710–711. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Harthan, John P. 1981. The History of the Illustrated Book: The Western Tradition. New York: Thames and Hudson.
Hendrix, Scott. 2004. Recultivating the Vineyard. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox.
Herbermann, Charles George and Edward A. Pace, eds. 1913. “The Blessed Virgin Mary.” In Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Encyclopedia Press. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15464b.htm (accessed 7 February 2011).
Hieronymus, Frank. 1984. Basler Buchillustration 1500-1545. Universitätsbibliothek Basel, 31. Oberrheinische Buchillustration, 2. Basel: Universitätsbibliothek.
Hollstein, F. W. H. n.d. German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts: 1400–1700, vol. 6. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger.
———. 1988. German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts: 1400–1700, edited by Tilman Falk and compiled by Robert Zijlma, vols. 14–14A. Roosendaal: Koninklijke Van Poll.
Hornik, Heidi J. 2003. The Infancy Narrative in Italian Renaissance Painting, vol. 1 of Illuminating Luke, 3 volumes. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International.
Iconic Book Symposium. 2010. http://jameswwatts.net/iconicbooks/IB%20About.htm (accessed 11 September 2010).
Keen, Ralph. 1996. “Cochlaeus, Johannes.” In Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation, 1: 369–371. New York: Oxford University Press.
Landesmann, Peter. 2010. Die Darstellung “der zwölfjährige Jesus unter den Schriftgelehrten” im Wandel der Zeiten. Biblical Interpretation Series, 101. Boston, MA: Brill.
Marty, Martin. 2004. Martin Luther. Penguin Life. New York: Penguin.
Melanchthon, Philipp. 1528. Underricht Philip Melanchthon Wider die here der Wiederteuffer. Hagenau: Johann Setzer.
Melion, Walter S. 2009. “Bible Illustration in the Sixteenth-Century Low Countries.” In Scripture for the Eyes: Bible Illustration in Netherlandish Prints of the Sixteenth Century, edited by James Clifton and Walter S. Melion, 14–106. New York: Museum of Biblical Art.
Moore, Walter L. 1996. “Eck, Johann.” In Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation, 2: 17–19. York: Oxford University Press.
Palomino, Michael. 2011. History in Chronology. http://www.geschichteinchronologie.ch/MA/judentum-EncJud_judenfleck-u-judenhut-im-MA-ENGL.html (accessed 7 February 2011).
Raimundi, Giovanni Battista, ed. 1591. Evangelium sanctum Domini Nostri Iesu Christi conscriptum a quatuor Evangelistis sanctis id est, Matthaeo, Marco, Luca, et Iohanne. Rome: Typographia Medicea.
Schöner, Petra. 2006. “Visual Representations of Jews and Judaism in Sixteenth-Century Germany.“ In Jews, Judaism, and the Reformation in Sixteenth-Century Germany, Studies in Central European Histories 37, edited by Dean Phillip Bell and Stephen G. Burnett, 357–391. Leiden: Brill.
Schreckenberg, Heinz. 1996. The Jews in Christian Art: An Illustrated History, translated by John Bowden. London: SCM Press. Originally published as Die Juden in der Kunst Europas: Ein Bildatlas. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1996.
Solis, Virgil. 1560. Biblische Figuren des Alten vnd Newen Testaments. Franckfurt am Main: David Zephelium, Johan Raschen, and Sigmund Feyerabent.
Strand, Kenneth A. 1982. Catholic German Bibles of the Reformation Era. Naples, FL: Ann Arbor Publishers.
String, Tatiana C. 2000. “Politics and Polemics in English and German Bible Illustrations.” In The Bible as Book: The Reformation, edited by Orlaith O’Sullivan, 137–143. London: The British Library; New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press.
Tribb, Jonathan D. 1994. Baptism in the Theology of Martin Luther, Studies in the History of Christian Thought 56. Leiden: Brill.
Verdon, Timothy. 2005. Mary in Western Art. New York: Hudson Mills Press.
Von Ubisch, E. 1889. Virgil Solis und seine biblischen Illustrationen für den Holzschnitt. Leipzig: Ramm & Seemann.
Wedewer, Hermann. 1988. Johannes Dietenberger, 1475–1537: Sein Leben und Wirken. Freiburg im Breisgau: Herdersch Verlagshandlung. First printed, Nieuwkoop: B. de Graaf, 1967.
Wendland, Henning. 1984. Signete: Deutsche Drucker- und Verlegerzeichen, 1457–1600. Hannover: Schlüterschen Verlagsanstalt.
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2012-06-27
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Graham, M. P. (2012). The Tell-Tale Iconic Book. Postscripts: The Journal of Sacred Texts, Cultural Histories, and Contemporary Contexts, 6(1-3), 117-141. https://doi.org/10.1558/post.v6i1-3.117
