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[Embroidery - Cologne] - Liure nouueau et subtil / tonchant [!] lart et science tant de brouderie...

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[Embroidery - Cologne] - Liure nouueau et subtil / tonchant [!] lart et science tant de brouderie...
[Embroidery - Cologne] - Liure nouueau et subtil / tonchant [!] lart et science tant de brouderie fronssures / tapisseries comme aultres mestiers quon fait a lesuille (...) ou il y ha C. et xxxviij. patrous de diuers ouuraiges faict par art et proportion. Cologne, Pierre Quinty (= Peter Quentell), [c. 1527], 4to, mod. half vellum, 18 (of 24) ff. (lacking 6 ff.; one border cropped, a few small holes in blank margin, hole in b8 and d4). Good copy. € 2000/2500 Cfr. ill. Second copy recorded. Even incomplete, a very interesting Renaissance manual with model schemes of embroidery patterns. It is the extremely rare French version of "Ein neues kunstliches Boich, dairin 138 Figuren" (VD-16 N-1202/1213), modelled on Hans Schönsperger's "Ein new Modelbuch" (Zwickau 1524). The Cologne manual consists of "7S. Holbeinstichmuster, 27 S. Stichvorlagen auf Grundnetz, 3 S. Alphabeten auf Liniennetz" aus Schönsperger + extra "Ranken auf Grundnetz". Title within elaborate woodcut border by Anton Woensam of Worms, showing women at looms. Full-page woodcut arms of Cologne with date '1527' on verso of title (border cropped). Numerous woodcut ornamental illustrations. Ref. Arthur Lotz, Bibl. d. Modelbücher. Beschreib. Verzeichnis der Stich- und Spitzenmusterbücher des 16. u. 17. Jhdts nr. 3d (1 copy: BN Paris). VD-16 N-1207 (ref. to Lotz only). Not in Adams (B-3050 is German version). Not in Machiels, BL London, NUC. Not in Mortimer, Harvard French ill.