1679

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Source:

Title: Format-Büchlein
Author: Johann Ludwig Vietor
Translator: -
Printer: Johann Georg Drullmann
Typographer: -
Engraver: Jacob Redinger
Location: Frankfurt am Main
Year: 1679
Links: [Scan 1].

Comments:

E.C. Bigmore and C.W.H. Wyman state in ‘A bibliography of printing, volume 2’ (Cambridge university press, 2014, page 243): “A curious plate, showing the interior of Redinger’s printing-office and the absurd ceremony used upon an apprentice completing his servitude, precedes the title. The ‘Depositio Cornuti’ was a ceremony not applicable to apprentices, but to journeymen, who, unless they had gone through the prescribed ordeal, were not ranked as journeymen, even though they might have long passed their preliminary years of servitude.”

Technique:

Copper gravure

Literature:

Rahn, Thomas. 2015. ‘Das Freudenspiel als Ritualvorlage’. pp 263-280. In: Steiger, Johann Anselm, and Jahn Bernhard (Eds.). 2015. ‘Johann Rist (1607-1667) Profil und Netzwerke eines Pastors, Dichters und Gelehrten’. Berlin/Munich/Boston: De Gruyter.

Nachdruck, herausgegeben von Martin Boghardt, Frans A. Janssen und Walter Wilkes. Published by Darmstadt, Verlag R. Raecke, 1983