Tag: Saint Barbara

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts

Two Unrecorded Woodcuts from Urs Graf’s “F.M.S.” Cycle

Liz Broadwell

Jan 13, 2021

In the spring of 2019 the Penn Libraries acquired for the Henry Charles Lea Library a German Hortulus animae or Seelengärtlein (BX2085 .S44 1515), a type of lay prayer book that enjoyed a brief burst of popularity in western Europe at the beginning of the sixteenth century.1 The first known Hortulus animae—Latin for “little garden…
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Tag: Saint Barbara

Two Unrecorded Woodcuts from Urs Graf’s “F.M.S.” Cycle