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Printer's Device of Martin Landsberg

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A woodcut depicting the printer's device of Martin Landsberg. The mark consists of two shields, one with what could be a stylized ox or cow head and a star (left) and the second with a city by a river (right). Per Davies in "Devices of the Early Printers, Vol. 9, pg. 196, "The town represented is on mounds in the former; here water seems to be indicated. If the allusion was originally to "Land" and "Berg", it is therefore now lost."

Date Issued or Published
1522
Subject - Topic/Names
Printers
Printing
Printer's marks
Cities and towns
Rivers
Stars
Cows
Subject - Geographic
Landsberg, Martin, -1523
Subject - Time Period
Sixteenth century
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Title
Printer's Device of Martin Landsberg
Date Issued or Published
1522
Description
A woodcut depicting the printer's device of Martin Landsberg. The mark consists of two shields, one with what could be a stylized ox or cow head and a star (left) and the second with a city by a river (right). Per Davies in "Devices of the Early Printers, Vol. 9, pg. 196, "The town represented is on mounds in the former; here water seems to be indicated. If the allusion was originally to "Land" and "Berg", it is therefore now lost."
Publisher
Landsberg, Martin, -1523
Place of Publication
Leipzig (Germany)
Contributor
Wulffer, Wolfgang, -1538
Subject - Topic/Names
Printers
Printing
Printer's marks
Cities and towns
Rivers
Stars
Cows
Subject - Geographic
Landsberg, Martin, -1523
Subject - Time Period
Sixteenth century
Extent/Dimensions
1 image
Content Type
Still image
Content Genre
woodcuts (prints)
printer's marks
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This work is part of the Richard C. Kessler Reformation Collection.
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Wid' die unselige Auffrure Merten Luders von Wolffgango Wulffer un[d] andern Christgleubige[n] euch zw Wittenberg tzugeschribenn.
Local Call Number
1522 WULF
Rights Statement
The online edition of this work in the public domain, i.e. not protected by copyright, has been produced by Pitts Theology Library.
NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES
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Emory University
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Pitts Theology Library
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