Arnold Bucking

Arnold Bucking (or Buckinck ) was a German book printer in Rome.

He is only known from the printing of the Cosmographia of Claudius Ptolemy, which he completed on October 10, 1478 . He was able to rely on extensive preparatory work by Konrad Sweynheym († 1476). This edition was one of the first to contain maps engraved in copper . The texts on these cards are not engraved by hand, but are stamped into the printing plate with specially made letters ; it is the oldest known use of this technique for this purpose. These printing plates were reused unchanged by Petrus de Turre for his edition of Cosmographia published in 1490 , so that the many individually surviving maps of the various early Roman editions can only be reliably distinguished by their watermarks . Also Bernardino Vitali used this printing plates for his 1507 and 1508 each edition of Cosmographia . The same letter punches as in 1478 were used for the maps added to these editions, including the Ruysch world map , and changes to some of the old printing plates.

literature

Giorgio Montecchi: Bucking (Buckinck), Arnold. In: Lexicon of the entire book industry. Second, completely revised edition. Volume 2 (1989), p. 1.
Arthur M. Hind : Florentine engravings and anonymous prints of other schools (= Early Italian engraving 1) Vol. 1: Catalog. Knoedler, New York 1938, reprint: Kraus, Nendeln 1970, pp. 289-291, 293-294; Vol. 4: Plates 320-485. Plates 478-479.
Otto Mühlbrecht: Bucking, Arnold . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 494 f.

Web links

Commons : Arnold Bucking - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Prints by Arnold Bucking in the complete catalog of incandescent prints
Digitized at Gallica
Digital version of the Real Academia de la Historia
Arnold Bucking in the type repertory of the incandescent prints of the Berlin State Library

Remarks

^ Tony Campbell: Letter Punches A Little-Known Feature of Early Engraved Maps. In: Print Quarterly 4, 1987, pp. 151-154 ( JSTOR 41823757 ).
↑ GW M36372 .
^ RHJ Peerlings, F. Laurentius, and J. van den Bovenkamp: The Watermarks in the Rome Editions of Ptolemy's Cosmography and More. In: Quaerendo 47 (2017) 3–4, pp. 307–327 ( DOI: 10.1163 / 15700690-12341392 ), for the maps of the edition of 1478 paper with the watermark Crossbow in a circle ( Charles-Moïse Briquet : Les Filigranes . Geneva 1907, No. 746) used.
^ RHJ Peerlings, F. Laurentius, and J. van den Bovenkamp: New Findings and Discoveries in the 1507/8 Rome Edition of Ptolemy's Cosmography. In: Quaerendo 48 (2018) 2, pp. 139–162 ( DOI: 10.1163 / 15700690-12341408 ).

personal data
SURNAME	Bucking, Arnold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Buckinck, Arnold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Incunabula printer in Rome
DATE OF BIRTH	15th century
DATE OF DEATH	15th century or 16th century

[1] Tony Campbell: Letter Punches A Little-Known Feature of Early Engraved Maps. In: Print Quarterly 4, 1987, pp. 151-154 ( JSTOR 41823757 ).

[2] GW M36372 .

[3] RHJ Peerlings, F. Laurentius, and J. van den Bovenkamp: The Watermarks in the Rome Editions of Ptolemy's Cosmography and More. In: Quaerendo 47 (2017) 3–4, pp. 307–327 ( DOI: 10.1163 / 15700690-12341392 ), for the maps of the edition of 1478 paper with the watermark Crossbow in a circle ( Charles-Moïse Briquet : Les Filigranes . Geneva 1907, No. 746) used.

[4] RHJ Peerlings, F. Laurentius, and J. van den Bovenkamp: New Findings and Discoveries in the 1507/8 Rome Edition of Ptolemy's Cosmography. In: Quaerendo 48 (2018) 2, pp. 139–162 ( DOI: 10.1163 / 15700690-12341408 ).