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PINDER, ULRICH. Speculum passionis domini nostri Ihesu Christi. Nürnberg: [for the Sodalitas Celtica], 30 August 1507. Median folio, 299 x 211 mm. (11 3/4 x 8 1/4 in.), modern vellum, g.e., one or two minor marginal repairs or minuscule tears, occasional light mostly marginal foxing, fols. Q2-3 nearly detached . FIRST EDITION, roman type, double column, 39 full-page woodcuts, (including 7 repeats), of which 36 by HANS SCHAÜFELEIN, two (on M2v and N2v) signed with his monogram and crossed shovel device, the three remaining cuts ( Nailing of Christ on the Cross on I4v, Erection of the Cross on K1r, and the Crucifixion on L6r) and one three-quarter page cut (the Man of Sorrows on A2v) by HANS BALDUNG GRIEN, numerous smaller woodcuts, many probably by Grien, some within ornamental two-part borders, spaces for initials with guide-letters. The first book to contain woodcuts signed by Schaüfelein. Ulrich Pinder, physician of the city of Nürnberg since 1493, had already made use of the engravers from Dürer's atelier -- Schaüfelein, Grien, Wolf Traut and Hans von Kulmbach -- for his Der Beschlossene Gart (1502), in which the Crucifixion cut and most of the smaller woodcuts in the present work first appeared. Dodgson attributed the cut of Christ with the apostles on D4v to Wolf Traut Adams P-1243; Brunet IV, 664-5; Dodgson I:505, II: 5, 17; Fairfax-Murray German 333; Hollstein II:128; M. Mende, Hans Baldung Grien, Das Graphische Werk (Unterschneidheim 1978), 286-297; VD 16, P 2807. Provenance : Nearly imperceptible effaced ownership inscription on title-leaf -- (from an unidentified sale in Geneva, 23 June 1948, lot 60).