Beschreibung:

[Grotesques, landscapes and other prints] A composite album containing fifty French and Italian engravings from the mid-sixteenth century, connected with the School of Fontainebleau, assembled in Bavaria ca 1600
[After Domenico del Barbiere] Ten engravings of grotesque ornaments, ca 1550-1560 [Zerner, D.B. 13, 14 (both in reverse), 15, 16, 17, 18 (reverse), 19, 20 (reverse), 21 (reverse), 22 (reverse)]
Davent, Léon (fl. 1540-1556). Landscapes with Story of Pluto and Prosperina, a suite of twelve numbered etchings after Léonard Thiry, ca 1547-1550 [one reproduced in Zerner, L.D.94]
Pencz, Georg (1500?-1550). The Triumphs of Petrarch, unnumbered suite of six engravings, ca 1539 [Bartsch VIII, nos 117-122]
Monogrammist F.G. Two putti playing with a lion and her cub in a landscape, signed with monogram FG and date 1537 on a tablet at upper left, lettered: RA VR IN [Raphael Urbinatis Invenit] [Bartsch IX, no. 8]
[Anonymous Master] Woman reclining on a merman. [Apparently unrecorded; a reversed version by Marco da Ravenna after Raphael, printed by Antonio Salamanca ca 1515-1540, is recorded]
Vico, Enea (1523-1567). Leda and the swan in an oval, with monogram EV and the date 1542. [Rome]
Monogrammist. BO. [Giulio Bonasone?] Two engravings: (1) A putto presenting stems of grain to Ceres, with monogram I.BO; (2) Two putti presenting Bacchus with a pot and a bunch of grapes, ca 1531-1576 [Bartsch XV nos 2-3]
[Milan, Pierre or René Boyvin?] Suite of eight engravings representing designs for various objects in metalwork, all lettered "cum privilegio regis". [French, ca 1549-1557]
Zundt, Matthias (1498-1572). Five etchings of decorated metalwork from Insigne Ac Planè Novum Opis Cratero graphicum … Ein new Kunstbuch darjnnen kunstreiche contra fect und bildnus vom allerley Trinckgeschirrn, Credenzen und Becherm. Nuremberg, 1551
[Anonymous, formerly attributed to Androuet du Cerceau] Four architectural plates of Roman buildings and a tabernacle, one hand-coloured [Rome, 1550s]
The prints are, for the most part, from the School of Fontainebleau, which was active in the mid sixteenth century, but the album also includes some Italian decorative and architectural prints.
Oblong 4to (202 x 272 mm). 50 engravings, numbered in manuscript 1-50 at the foot of each plate. (Some marginal worming, a few small wormholes in the plates in the second half of the volume, a few plates on shorter paper, some remargined.)
binding: Limp vellum binding (205 x 275 mm), probably German and dating from around 1600, covers reusing two vellum manuscript leaves, backstrip from a strip of vellum manuscript (not integral with covers), pastedowns of two printed leaves from the 1516 Landshut edition of Lucianus Samosatensis in German (VD16 L 3041, leaves C2 and C6), four pairs of alum-tawed ties, in modern drop-backed box. (Binding worn and frayed with a few wormholes, some ties defective.)
provenance: Erased inscription on first plate — Johann Stromair (Strohmayer), priest of Gerolfing (Ingolstadt), inscription at head of first plate dated 1618. acquisition: Purchased in 2011 from Librairie Paul Jammes, Paris.