Printer's Mark of Arnao Guillen de Brocar, Logrono 1517 - Woodcut

Woodcut of the printer's mark of Arnao Guillen de Brocar, the printer of the Complutensian Polyglot Bible, as he used it at Logrono in 1517: the Crucifixion with a kneeling donor beneath the motto INIMICI HOMINIS DOMESTICI EIVS and, below, two angels holding the shield with the boar that puns on his name.

The sheet carries a line set in modern type below, Marca tipica de impresor del siglo XVI. Arnao Guillen de Brocar. Logrono, 1517, and on the back another mark, that of the Saragossa printer Pedro Destar: it therefore comes from a modern work on Spanish printers' marks, not from a 16th-century book.

Medium: Woodcut
Date: Modern impression of a mark of 1517
Dimensions: 5.5 x 7.4 in (14 x 18.7 cm)
Condition: Deckle-edged paper with heavily frayed edges and small tears around the perimeter. The image itself is clean and well inked