Noah’s Ark and Burning Sodom: Woodcuts in the PSU codex Fasciculus temporum

Authors

Amber L. Shrewsbury

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Abstract

Early printed books were illustrated by means of woodcut block illustrations. These illustrations frequently depicted well-known biblical events or stories and cities, and the woodcuts were frequently reused, sometimes within the same edition.

The focus of this paper is two woodcut illustrations in PSU’s 1490 edition of Werner Rolewinck’s Fasciculus temporum: Noah’s Ark and the destruction of Sodom. Comparisons are made between these two illustrations and relevant woodcuts in other editions of the Fasciculus temporum, as well as those found in a 1493 edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle by Hartmann Schedel.

Publication Date

2020

Subjects

Incunabula, Illumination, Illustration, History of the Book, History of Printing

Disciplines

Illustration | Medieval History | Medieval Studies

Comments

This essay is part of a series of research projects written for Professor John Ott's Spring 2020 Medieval History seminar on PSU Library Special Collections' Malleus maleficarum and Fasciculus temporum codex.

Persistent Identifier

https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/34766

Recommended Citation

Shrewsbury, Amber L., "Noah’s Ark and Burning Sodom: Woodcuts in the PSU codex Fasciculus temporum" (2020). Fasciculus Temporum. 1.
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/34766