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PINDER, Ulrich (fl.1489-1509). Speculum de Passione Christi. Nuremberg: [Printer for the Sodalitas Celtica (?F. Peypus)] 30 August, 1507.
PINDER, Ulrich (fl.1489-1509). Speculum de Passione Christi. Nuremberg: [Printer for the Sodalitas Celtica (?F. Peypus)] 30 August, 1507. 2 o (294 x 208 mm). Roman type, double column, initial spaces with guide-letter, rubricated with red Lombard initials 39 full-page woodcuts (including 5 repeats), of which 36 are by Hans Schäufelein two signed with his monogram and device, and 3 (I4v, K1r, and L6r) by Hans Baldung Grien, a further three-quarter-page woodcut on A2v by Grien, and 36 smaller woodcuts, many flanked by woodcut border, depicting the life of Christ. (Some minor browning and staining, D3 with short marginal repaired tear, lacks final blank.) 17th/18th century German blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, remnants of clasps. Provenance : early manuscript index; 17th/18th century manuscript notations on pastedowns; Bundesdenkmalamt, Friedrich Schmidt (ink stamp and pencil signature). FIRST EDITION, and the first book to contain woodcuts signed by Schäufelein. Pinder was born at Nördlingen, where he practised as a physician from 1484-89; he was then employed as personal physician to Archduke Friedrich von Sachsen at Nuremberg and was appointed physician to the City of Nuremberg in 1493. He was a member of the Sodalitas Celtica, and owned his own press, for which he almost certainly employed Friedrich Peypus, his future son-in-law, as printer. Pinder had made use of the engravers from Dürer's atelier - Schäufelein, Grien, Wolf Traut and Hans von Kulmbach - for his Der Beschlossene Gart (1502), in which the Crucifixion cut and most of the smaller woodcuts in the present work made their first appearance. Dodgson attributed the cut of Christ with the apostles on D4v to Wolf Traut Adams P-1243; Brunet IV:664; Dodgson I:505, II:15, 17; Fairfax Murray German 333; Hollstein II:128; M.Mende, Hans Baldung Grien, das Graphische Werke (1978), 286-97.