[111]. Woltmann, Woodcuts, 193. Reproduced by Knackfuss, fig. 67.
[112]. Woltmann, 234. Reproduced by Davies, p. 186; A. F. Butsch, Die Bücher-Ornamentik der Renaissance, 1878, Pl. 41; Wornum, dedication page.
[113]. Woltmann, 111.
[114]. This inscription, however, is now regarded as a rather doubtful one, and it is possible that the book was never permanently in the possession of Erasmus. See Hes, Ambrosius Holbein, pp. 83-94, where the history of the book and the various theories as to its ownership and the authorship of the drawings are very fully discussed.
[115]. See Ganz, Hdz. Schweiz. Mstr., note to i. 52.
[116]. Dr. Hes subjects the drawings to careful analysis, and gives a complete list, together with the suggested authorship of each of them, in Ambrosius Holbein, pp. 90-94 and 161-166.
[117]. Twelve of them reproduced by Ganz, Hdz. Schweiz. Mstr., i. 52; the whole set by Mantz, but so badly engraved that they are of little service for purposes of comparison; the whole of the drawings now attributed to Ambrosius by Hes, Pls. xvi.-xx., and p. 139.
[118]. Dr. Hes points out the similarity of this figure to that of the schoolmistress in the “Schoolmaster’s Signboard,” and considers that Ambrosius had a share in the painting of the latter. See Ambrosius Holbein, p. 93.
[119]. By Ambrosius Holbein.
[120]. The name, however, was not written by Erasmus, but is a later addition.