Category:Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris, Ulm ca. 1474

Illustrations in woosdcut with hand-coloring from an incunable German translation by Heinrich Steinhöwel of Giovanni Boccaccio's De Mulieribus Claris, printed by Johannes Zainer at Ulm ca. 1474 (cf. ISTC ib00720000). One of 76 woodcut illustrations (1 on leaf [e]8v dated 1473), each 80 x 110 mm., depicting scenes from the life of the women chronicled (for a full list of subjects, cf. W.L. Schreiber, Handbuch der Holz- und Metallschnitte des XV. Jahrhunderts (Nendeln: Kraus Reprints, 1969), no. 3506). "Pour la première moitie le nom se trouve inscrit à côte de la tête de chaque femme, pour le reste il es ajouté entre les deux réglettes. Il n'y en a que trois, qui n'ont qu'un seul trait carré."--Schreiber.

Established form: Zainer, Johannes, ‡d d. 1541?.

Penn Libraries call number: Inc B-720 All images from this book Penn Libraries catalog record

Media in category "Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris, Ulm ca. 1474"

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Woodcut illustration of a Roman woman (Romana) suckling her mother in prison - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,797 × 2,228; 5.72 MB
Woodcut illustration of Aemilia Tertia (or Aemilia Paulla), wife of Scipio Africanus - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 3,097 × 2,390; 7.31 MB
Woodcut illustration of Agrippina Major and Tiberius - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,647 × 1,916; 4.53 MB
Woodcut illustration of Agrippina Minor, Nero and Claudius - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,012 × 1,578; 3.54 MB
Woodcut illustration of Amalthea (the Cumaean sibyl), Tarquinius Superbus and the Sibylline books - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,658 × 2,297; 5.68 MB
Woodcut illustration of Annia Galeria Faustina (or Faustina Augusta) and Antoninus Pius - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 1,931 × 1,613; 3.1 MB
Woodcut illustration of Arachne's suicide - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,578 × 2,445; 6.4 MB
Woodcut illustration of Argia and Polyneices - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,578 × 2,399; 5.48 MB
Woodcut illustration of Artemisia II of Caria drinking the ashes of her husband Mausolus - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,520 × 2,121; 5.02 MB
Woodcut illustration of Ascanius greeting his stepbrother Silvius (left) and Lavinia with her newborn son Silvius (right) - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,486 × 2,087; 5.06 MB
Woodcut illustration of Berenice (or Laodice) of Cappadocia, wife of Ariarathes VI - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,905 × 2,187; 5.48 MB
Woodcut illustration of Camilla and Metabus escaping into exile - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,515 × 2,126; 5.2 MB
Woodcut illustration of Cassandra's prophecy of the fall of Troy (at left) and her death (at right) - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,428 × 2,052; 4.92 MB
Woodcut illustration of Ceres - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,948 × 2,225; 6.96 MB
Woodcut illustration of Chiomara, wife of Orgiagon of Galatia - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 1,026 × 1,754; 855 KB
Woodcut illustration of Circe and Odysseus with men transformed into animals - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 828 × 768; 669 KB
Woodcut illustration of Claudia Quinta - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,450 × 2,158; 5.46 MB
Woodcut illustration of Cleopatra and Mark Antony - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,855 × 2,457; 6.98 MB
Woodcut illustration of Cloelia's escape from Lars Porsena - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,635 × 2,459; 6.22 MB
Woodcut illustration of Clytemnestra and Aegisthus murdering Agamemnon and their subsequent deaths at the hand of Orestes - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,389 × 2,164; 4.97 MB
Woodcut illustration of Constance of Sicily, her husband HRE Henry VI and her son HRE Frederick II - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,150 × 2,168; 4.84 MB
Woodcut illustration of Dido founding Carthage - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,312 × 2,040; 4.88 MB
Woodcut illustration of Epicharis (of the Pisonian conspiracy) - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,197 × 1,682; 3.58 MB
Woodcut illustration of Helen and Paris - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,324 × 2,260; 5.44 MB
Woodcut illustration of Hercules (dressed as both a man and a woman) and Iole - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,751 × 2,468; 6.78 MB
Woodcut illustration of Hercules, Deianira and Nessus - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,462 × 1,846; 4.66 MB
Woodcut illustration of Hortensia pleading her case before the triumvirs - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,786 × 2,306; 6.24 MB
Woodcut illustration of Hypermnestra, Lynceus (or Linus) and the Danaïdes - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,347 × 2,272; 5.54 MB
Woodcut illustration of Hypsipyle sparing her father Thoas from death, with the death of Opheltes in the background - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,751 × 2,179; 5.99 MB
Woodcut illustration of Irene, Empress of the East, and Charlemagne - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,358 × 2,225; 5.83 MB
Woodcut illustration of Jocasta and her son Oedipus - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,457 × 2,045; 4.69 MB
Woodcut illustration of Julia Soaemias Bassiana (or Julia Symiamira) and her son Elagabalus - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,150 × 2,006; 4.52 MB
Woodcut illustration of Jupiter and Europa - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,578 × 2,237; 5.98 MB
Woodcut illustration of Jupiter and Io with Mercury and a drowsing Argus - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 3,029 × 2,341; 6.91 MB
Woodcut illustration of Leaena - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,439 × 1,809; 4.73 MB
Woodcut illustration of Manto, daughter of Tiresias - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,682 × 2,110; 5.53 MB
Woodcut illustration of Medusa and Neptune embracing beside a winged horse (either Pegasus or Chrysaor), with Perseus mounted upon Pegasus (following later developments of the Perseus legend) in the background - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,497 × 2,052; 4.81 MB
Woodcut illustration of Nicaula, Queen of Sheba, and Solomon, King of Israel - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,740 × 2,468; 6.87 MB
Woodcut illustration of Nicostrata (also Nicostrate or Carmenta), inventor of the alphabet - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,412 × 1,667; 3.69 MB
Woodcut illustration of Niobe, Amphion and their dead sons - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 3,031 × 2,255; 6.49 MB
Woodcut illustration of Odysseus's return to Penelope - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,671 × 2,353; 6.12 MB
Woodcut illustration of Olympias, wife of Philip II of Macedon, and the deaths of Pausanias and of Cleopatra and her daughter - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,743 × 2,164; 5.43 MB
Woodcut illustration of Pallas Athena with her attributes - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,798 × 2,468; 6.46 MB
Woodcut illustration of Paulina Busa of Canosa - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,740 × 2,272; 5.91 MB
Woodcut illustration of Penthesilea - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,202 × 2,126; 4.43 MB
Woodcut illustration of Pompey stained by the blood of his sacrifice and his wife Julia fainting at the sight of his bloodstained garment - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,440 × 1,952; 5.48 MB
Woodcut illustration of Pope Joan - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,127 × 2,020; 4.61 MB
Woodcut illustration of Poppaea Sabina and Nero - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,405 × 1,798; 4.36 MB
Woodcut illustration of Porcia Catonis counseling Marcus Junius Brutus, Julius Caesar's death at the hands of Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus, and Porcia's suicide - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,601 × 1,913; 5.68 MB
Woodcut illustration of Procris and Cephalus - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,260 × 1,929; 4.17 MB
Woodcut illustration of Pyramus and Thisbe - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,600 × 2,494; 6.57 MB
Woodcut illustration of Rhea Silvia and the birth of Romulus and Remus - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,231 × 1,983; 4.6 MB
Woodcut illustration of Semiramis and her son Ninias - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,647 × 2,110; 4.76 MB
Woodcut illustration of Sophonisba committing suicide on the advice of her husband Masinissa, ordered to repudiate her by his ally Laelius - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,971 × 2,387; 6.81 MB
Woodcut illustration of Sulpicia, wife of Quintus Fulvius Flaccus, and the goddess Venus - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,597 × 2,084; 5.46 MB
Woodcut illustration of the Amazons Lampedo and Marpesia - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 3,006 × 2,445; 7.44 MB
Woodcut illustration of the artist Marcia Varronis (or Iaia of Cyzicus) - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,775 × 2,064; 5.51 MB
Woodcut illustration of the birth of Jupiter to Ops with Saturnus and Titanus present - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,731 × 2,453; 5.88 MB
Woodcut illustration of the death of Harmonia of Syracuse and her body double - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,798 × 2,272; 6 MB
Woodcut illustration of the death of Theoxena, her husband Poris, and his children - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,704 × 2,297; 5.61 MB
Woodcut illustration of the defeat of Cyrus II by Tomyris, Queen of the Massagetae - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,590 × 2,006; 5.12 MB
Woodcut illustration of the Erythraean sibyl and Christ - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,393 × 2,064; 4.71 MB
Woodcut illustration of the escape of Jason with Medea and the death of her brother Absyrtis - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,732 × 2,372; 5.94 MB
Woodcut illustration of the goddess Juno as patron of marriage - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,682 × 2,202; 5.55 MB
Woodcut illustration of the rape of Lucretia by Sextus Tarquinius and her subsequent suicide before her husband Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus and Lucius Junius Brutus - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,716 × 2,390; 6.06 MB
Woodcut illustration of the sacrifice of Polyxena by Neoptolemus at the tomb of Achilles - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,647 × 2,191; 5.64 MB
Woodcut illustration of the story of Paulina and Decius Mundus from Josephus's Jewish Antiquities - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,173 × 1,601; 3.45 MB
Woodcut illustration of the suicide of Seneca and the attempted suicide of his wife Pompeia Paulina - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,126 × 1,650; 3.36 MB
Woodcut illustration of the wives of the Cimbrians - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,879 × 2,272; 7.06 MB
Woodcut illustration of the wives of the Minyans enabling their husbands' escape from prison - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,704 × 1,939; 5.5 MB
Woodcut illustration of Tullia driving over the body of her husband, Servius Tullius - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,497 × 2,318; 5.8 MB
Woodcut illustration of Venus and Cupid, with Vulcan chaining Venus and Mars while Dis looks on in the background - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,879 × 2,179; 6.99 MB
Woodcut illustration of Verginia's trial before Appius Claudius and her death at the hand of her father Verginius - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,948 × 2,387; 7.59 MB
Woodcut illustration of Veturia and Volumnia confronting Coriolanus - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,693 × 2,193; 5.95 MB
Woodcut illustration of Virginia, wife of Lucius Volumnius Flamma Violens - Penn Provenance Project.jpg 2,740 × 2,237; 6.81 MB