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.