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Addendum Ernst Kyriss
Remarks on E. Wead, "Early Binding Stamps of Religious Significance in Certain American Libraries: A Supplemental Report," Studies in Bibliography, II (1949).
In connection with Miss Wead's contribution (the first part of which, published in 1935, is not accessible to me), it may be of interest to many experts to learn some further particulars concerning the origin of the binding stamps illustrated therein. Inasmuch as a rather large number of bindings for the workshops named below are assembled in my book, Der verzierte gotische Einband im alten deutschen Sprachgebiet (Stuttgart, 1951), reference will be made to it for the sake of simplicity.
The outer border of Fig. 4 is not made by a roll but by a rectangular die with two lilies placed one above the other. The stamp of the fall of man reproduced in Fig. 7 belongs to No. 100 of the Cologne workshop in my book. Of this workshop I was able to identify 72 bindings in 42 different ornamental forms of the last quarter of the 15th century. The binding of which Fig. 8 illustrates a stamp was probably made in Danzig. The rectangular forms of the Annunciation (Fig. 9) together with the two fighting cocks are found in the workshop of the Benedictine monastery Wiblingen (No. 36) as well as in that of the Ulm bookbinder (No. 126). Of the latter I have authenticated 252 bindings with 152 different stamps; of the former, 340 bindings with the same number of stamps. The Adoration of the Magi (Fig. 11) is to be allotted to the 38 different stamps of the monastery of Brothers of the Cross in Cologne (No. 17). Not from Kempten but from the Vienna Dominican monastery mentioned by Wead on page 72 come the stamps of Ill. 16 and 17. This monastery had at its disposal a large number of especially well cut forms.
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