Images or, and information on woodcuts by Johann Zainer from 1473.
Book about famous women by Boccaccio. Page from De mulieribus claris
done by Zainer, has a picture of soldiers riding on horses.
Illistration.

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Request for Question Clarification by justaskscott-ga on 20 Aug 2003 11:49 PDT

Do you need both images and information?  Do you need images and/or
information in particular about the book by Boccaccio, and/or the page
from De mulieribus claris?  Or would any substantial images and/or
information about Zainer suffice?

The more you can specify exactly what you need, the better we can
answer your question.

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Clarification of Question by cab1234-ga on 21 Aug 2003 11:29 PDT

Images from that particular book, especially the one with soldiers on
horses done 1473.  The book is De mulieribus claris. Biography of
Johann Zainer or chronology. What is the relation between Johann
Zainer and Gunther Zainer? What's the biggest historical event of that
time and place?  Need this before I leave for class tonight. It's due,
If you can't forward a answerby 4p.m. latest please cancel.  Thankyou
in advance.


                                            Carole Frissora

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Request for Question Clarification by justaskscott-ga on 21 Aug 2003 11:48 PDT

I have not found that particular image from the work, though I have
found at least one other.  I have seen a short biography or chronology
of Johann Zainer, though only a general guess as to his relation to
Gunther Zainer.  I have not yet looked for the biggest historical
event where Zainer lived in 1473, but probably could find something.

If you get this message in time, let me know whether I (or someone
else with similar information) should try to answer the question.

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Clarification of Question by cab1234-ga on 21 Aug 2003 12:02 PDT

whatever you have would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, please
forward.
 
                                         Carole Frissora

P.S. Will ask again some questions later possibly with help for other
assignments for school. I'm satisfied.

Hello cab1234,

Here are various pieces of information about Johann Zainer (also
listed as "Joh.", "Johan", and "Johannes" on various web pages, and
sometimes called "Johann Zainer der Ältere" or "Johann Zainer d.Ä."
(the Elder)).

First, some basic biographical information:

"Johann Zainer (* Reutlingen, † Ulm[?] nach 1527), wahrscheinlich ein
Verwandter des Augsburger Günther Zainer, war der erste Drucker in
Ulm. Sein erster datierter Druck erschien 1473."
(Johann Zainer (born Reutlingen, died Ulm[?] about 1527), probably a
relative of Günther Zainer from Augsburg, was the first printer in
Ulm.  His first dated print was published in 1473.)

"Information und Kommunikation in Geschichte und Gegenwart"
(Information and Communication in History and the Present), by
Margerete Rehm
Institut für Bibliothekswissenschaft der Humboldt-Universität zu
Berlin
http://www.ib.hu-berlin.de/~wumsta/infopub/index.html

Johann Zainer, as well as Günther Zainer, was noted for many
publications (too many to list in this short time), including a
version of Aesop:

"On the Artistic Qualities of the Woodcut Books of Ulm and Augsburg in
the Fifteenth Century", by William Morris
Marxists Internet Archive
http://www.marxists.org/archive/morris/works/1893/ulm.htm

One page calls Johann and Günther the "Gebrüder Zainer" (the Zainer
brothers).  That seems doubtful, since while they were both born in
Reutlingen, Günther was born in 1410.  (Perhaps there was a younger
Günther who was Johann's brother?)

"Antiqua" [sixth paragraph]
Typolexikon.de
http://www.typolexikon.de/a/antiqua.html

"Lexikon Geschichte Baden+Württemberg: Z"
Manfred Ebener:  Kleines Lexikon zur Geschichte  in Baden und
Württemberg, philatelistisch unterstützt.
http://www.s-line.de/homepages/ebener/Z.htm

Here are two Johann Zainer prints from De Mulieribus Claris:

"Early Woodcut from Boccaccio's De Mulieribus Claris"
The University of Newcastle, Australia
http://www.newcastle.edu.au/discipline/fine-art/theory/analysis/print-b.html

"Images of Circe and Discourses of Witchcraft, 1480-1580", by Charles
Zika [fig. 1, click to enlarge]
Zeitenblicke
http://www.zeitenblicke.historicum.net/2002/01/zika/zika.html

Here is another early print copied from Johann Zainer's version:

"26 Boccaccio" [click picture to enlarge]
Koninklijke Bibliotheek
http://www.kb.nl/kb/100hoogte/hh-en/hh026-en.html

It seems that Zainer's printing itself might be the biggest historical
event of that time and place.  However, it is also noteworthy that
Kaiser Friedrich III visited Ulm in the summer of 1473.

"Der Empfang Kaiser Friedrichs III. zu Ulm im Sommer 1473" ["The
Reception of Kaiser Friedrich III in Ulm in Summer 1473"]
Regesta Imperii
http://ri-opac.geschichte.uni-giessen.de/~andi/guest-lit/gshow.php?pk=65006

"Die Sammlungen des Vereins -  erlesene Kostbarkeiten aus vergangenen
Jahrhunderten" [text accompanying second image]
Stadtarchiv Ulm
http://www.stadtarchiv.ulm.de/seite32.htm
http://ri-opac.geschichte.uni-giessen.de/~andi/guest-lit/gshow.php?pk=65006

- justaskscott-ga

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Clarification of Answer by justaskscott-ga on 21 Aug 2003 13:04 PDT

Search terms used on Google, in various combinations:

variations on Johann
Günther
Zainer
"Mulieribus Claris"
Boccaccio
Aesop
Ulm
Reutlingen
1473
Geschichte
"Friedrich III"

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Clarification of Answer by justaskscott-ga on 21 Aug 2003 13:08 PDT

You can ignore the very last link in my answer -- it's just an
accidental repetition of the link for the previous citation.