11-11-2018, 09:15 PM
Right, Nick, but if there is continuous commercial printing in Haguenau from at least the second decade of the 15th century, then I'd say anything of interest we can learn about the "workshop of 1418" is as least as important as Lauber. I'm not sure what the current consensus is about the relation between "1418" and Lauber, but to me it looks like Lauber just took over the enterprise at some point, or at least their image stock and peculiar methods of producing a wide amount of illustrations from a limited set of examples.
But well, you are right in that Lauber might be of significant importance if the MS appears to be on the late end of the radiocarbon dating or somewhat outside of it.
I spent countless hours researching the Haguenau manuscripts and I'm letting it rest for a bit now. But as you say there's still so much literature left to be explored. Unfortunately most of it is in German.
But well, you are right in that Lauber might be of significant importance if the MS appears to be on the late end of the radiocarbon dating or somewhat outside of it.
I spent countless hours researching the Haguenau manuscripts and I'm letting it rest for a bit now. But as you say there's still so much literature left to be explored. Unfortunately most of it is in German.