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11012

Title

Subject

Jesus Christ - Passion

Description

A portable devotional book of 38 leaves issued in small quarto format. It consisted of a title page and 36 woodcuts illustrating the narrative of Christ’s Passion, followed by the colophon, in which the printer identified himself as “Albrecht Dürer, painter.” Although some of the woodcuts were dated 1509 or 1510, the series was completed and published in 1511. For this edition, the monk Benedictus Chelidonius provided a shorter set of Latin verses than he had for the Large Passion.

Creator

Dürer, Albrecht, 1471–1528 and Chelidonius, Benedictus, d. 1521.

Source

11012. Albrecht Dürer. Passio Christi ab Alberto Durer Nurenbergensi effigiata cum varii generis carminibus Fratris Benedicti Chelidonii Musophili. Nuremberg: Albrecht Dürer, 1511.

Publisher

Bridwell Library Special Collections

Date

Rights

Please cite Bridwell Library Special Collections, SMU, as the source of this file. A high-resolution version of this file may be obtained by contacting Special Collections (bridsc@smu.edu).

Relation

SmallPassion

Format

Displayed as .jpg

Language

Type

Quarto devotional book with woodcut illustrations

Collection

Books and Prints by Albrecht Durer

Citation

Dürer, Albrecht, 1471–1528 and Chelidonius, Benedictus, d. 1521., “11012,” Bridwell Library Special Collections Exhibitions, accessed July 12, 2025, https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1865.