Accipies woodcut
An accipies woodcut is a woodcut showing how a teacher inspired by the dove of the Holy Spirit gives lessons to his students. The Latin hexameter “ Accipies tanti doctoris dogmata sancti ” (hear the doctrines of the holy doctor Thomas Aquinas ) is written on a tape .
The accipies woodcuts appeared primarily in textbooks and school books of the late 15th century as title woodcuts ( frontispiece ).
A first such representation can be found by the printer Heinrich Quentell in Cologne 1490. Iconographically, the motif goes back to depictions of Pope Gregory the Great from the 9th and 10th centuries.
Individual evidence
- ^ Pope Gregory I with scribes, master of the Viennese Gregor plate, Carolingian, 9th century, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, inv. KK 8399 Vienna Gregorplatte ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ); Gregorblatt, master of the Gregorii Registrum around 985. Trier, City Library
literature
- Sabine Kirk: Teaching theory in image documents from the 15th to 17th centuries. A study on the image type of the "Accipies" and its modifications in the image stock of the Helmstedt University Library and the Augustan book stock of the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel . Lax, Hildesheim 1988. (Contributions to historical educational research, 6) ISBN 3-7848-3756-5
- WL Schreiber / P. Heitz: The German "Accipies" and "Magister cum Discipulis" woodcuts as an aid to determining incunabula. Strasbourg 1908.
Web links
Wiktionary: Accipies woodcut - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
