Steffen Arndes

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Steffen Arndes (* around 1450 in Hamburg ; † before August 14, 1519 in Lübeck ) was an incunabulum printer who mainly worked in Lübeck.

Life

Nothing is known about Arndes' education. From May 1477 he appeared as a printer in Perugia , where he also cut letters and developed a device for a type foundry . There he worked until 1481 and entered a society with the student of canon law Levo Leve , among others .

In the mid-1480s he was commissioned to print the missal for the diocese of Schleswig . The printing was financed by the Strander Staller Laurens Leve , who, through his son, the now canon Levo Leve in Lübeck, formed a company with Arndes that lasted until 1494. The Missale Slesvicense was at least partially printed in Schleswig . In the year this work was published (1486), he finally settled in Lübeck. In 1494 the company was dissolved with Laurens Leve. As part of the dissolution contract documented in the Lübeck Niederstadtbuch , Arndes received the workshop with all accessories, but Laurens Leve received 37 paper and five parchment copies of the missal in rough sheets, 90 bound copies of the Breviary Slesvicense, also printed by Arndes, and 400 copies of the plenary worth total of ~ 700 Luebian marks . Arndes gave the Leves another 1,000 copies of the plenary and a probably Low German edition of the Legenda aurea in 1498.

His main work is the Low German Lübeck Bible (1494) , which is one of the outstanding early prints in Germany and is known for the quality of its illustrations.

His son Hans Arndes led the Offizin his father until the Reformation on.

Works

Colophon of the Lübeck Bible (1494)
  • Missale Slesvicense , 1486
  • Dithmarscher Landrecht. 1485 ISTC or 1487/88 GW , only fragments preserved
  • Letter of indulgence from the papal legate Raimund Peraudi , 1489
  • Book of prophecies, epistols and hyllyghen ewangelii. (Plenary), 1488 and 1506
  • Dat Passionäel vnde dat leuent der hyllyghen , 1492, further editions April 23, 1499 and 1507
Passionäel - first edition 1492 in the complete catalog of incandescent prints (GW number M11503)
Passionäel - Edition 1499 in the complete catalog of incandescent prints (GW number M11506)
Digitized version of the edition from 1499, copy from the Lübeck City Library
Digitized version of the edition from 1499, copy from the ULB Halle
Digitized version of the 1507 edition, copy from the Bavarian State Library (formerly duplicate of the library of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck )
The second edition of the herb book was published in 1520 by the heirs of Arndes:
Digitized 2nd edition 1520, Austrian National Library
Digitized 2nd edition 1520, Lübeck City Library
  • De sacramento altaris mundo et transformato et de cruoribus atque votis , 1493
Digitized copy of the copy from the Bavarian State Library
  • Lübeck Bible (1494) , illustration by the master of the Lübeck Bible
  • Johannes Schiphower : Tractatus de conceptio [n] e immaculate virginis. collect [us] p [er] venerabile [m] sacre theologie lectore [m] fratre [m] ioha [n] e [m] de meppis cognominato [!] schyphower ordinis fratru [m] heremitaru [m] diui Augustini Anno d [o] m [ini] Mcccc.xcij. quando erat prior in conue [n] tu Ta [n] glimme [n] si. 9.V.1495
Digital copy of the copy in the Herzog August Library
  • Psaltery , 1497
  • Plenarium (Middle Low German): Dat boek des hillighen Ewangelij Profecien vnde Epistelen ouer dat ghantze yaer myt der Glosen vnde Exempelen , 1497.
Digitized version of the 1506 edition, Lübeck City Library
  • Bedebok , 1499
Digitized copy of the copy from the Bavarian State Library
  • Marientiden (Middle Low German): Seven tyde Our Lieve Vrauwen. 1499
Digitized copy of the copy from the Bavarian State Library

literature

Web links

Commons : Steffen Arndes  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Steffen Arndes  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The prevailing view in earlier literature that he learned in Mainz is based on an old confusion with another German printer in Perugia, see Lohmeier (2002, lit.), p. 49
  2. ↑ In detail on misunderstandings in previous research, the article by Dieter Lohmeier: News about Steffen Arndes . In: ZVLGA 82 (2002), pp. 45-58
  3. ^ Dieter Lohmeier : The early days of book printing in Lübeck. In: Alken Bruns and Dieter Lohmeier (eds.): The Lübeck book printers in the 15th and 16th centuries. Letterpress for the Baltic region. Boyens, Heide in Holstein 1994, ISBN 3-8042-0668-9 , pp. 11-53, here p. 36; For details on the scope and motivation of the collaboration, see Wolfgang Undorf: From Gutenberg to Luther - Transnational Print Cultures in Scandinavia 1450-1525. Diss. Phil. Berlin 2012 full text , pp. 38–45
  4. ↑ No copies received, see GW
  5. ↑ Images from the copy in the Danish Royal Library
  6. ↑ Hans-Walter Stork: "Hir hefft an dat Landrecht aver Ditmarschen." New fragments of the printed Dithmarscher Landrecht. In: Gutenberg Yearbook 2011, pp. 85-100.
  7. ↑ Guard of the sundheyt in the complete catalog of incandescent prints (GW number M09748)
personal data
SURNAME Arndes, Steffen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German book printer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1450
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH before August 14, 1519
Place of death Lübeck