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A new book by Edward Wilson-Lee, Fellow of our neighbouring Sidney Sussex College and a regular reader in the Wren Library, tells the scarcely believable – and wholly true – story of Christopher Columbus’s bastard son Hernando, who sought to equal and surpass his father’s achievements by creating a universal library. Here we take a sideways look at Christopher Columbus and his son through a selection of books in the Wren Library.

La Casa de Colón

This splendidly illustrated account of the great cities of the world, printed in five large volumes in –18, devotes a single plate to the three cities of Seville, Cadiz and Malaga. The perspective of Seville shows Hernando’s house, ‘La Casa de Colón’, next to the Puerta de Goles. The text was compiled by Georg Braun, and the engraved plates, hand-coloured in this copy, are largely the work of Franz Hogenberg.

As a youth, Hernando Colón spent years travelling in the New World, one of them marooned with his father in a shipwreck off Jamaica. He created a dictionary and a geographical encyclopedia of Spain, oversaw the first modern maps of the world, visited almost every major European capital and associated with many of the great people of his day, from Ferdinand and Isabella to Erasmus, Thomas More and Albrecht Dürer.

“Their words have gone out to the end of the world”

 

One of the first ever biographical notices of Christopher Columbus is printed rather unexpectedly in the margins of this scholarly edition of the Book of Psalms, printed in Genoa in It is apparently the first polyglot work ever published, and presents the Psalter in eight columns with the Hebrew, a literal Latin version of the Hebrew, the Latin Vulgate, the Greek Septuagint, the Arabic, the Chaldean (in Hebrew characters), a literal Latin version of the Chaldean, and scholia in the right-hand column. The editor, Agostino Giustiniani, generally made brief notes in the final column relating to textual questions, but an excep

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    Early Origins of the Holbein family

    The surname Holbein was first found in Austria, where the name became noted for its many branches in the region, each house acquiring a status and influence which was envied by the princes of the region. They held a family seat at Holbeinsberg and became nobles of the Holy Roman Empire in In their later history the name became a power unto themselves and were elevated to the ranks of nobility as they grew into this most influential family.

    Early History of the Holbein family

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    Holbein Spelling Variations

    Spelling variations of this family name include: Holbein, Hohlbein and others.

    Early Notables of the Holbein family

    During this period prominent bearers of the name Holbein were

    • Hans Holbein (), painter, born at Augsburg in Swabia in , was the younger son of Hans Holbein, a painter of that town, and grandson of Michel Holbein, who some time before came from

    Holbein migration to the United States +

    Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

    Holbein Settlers in United States in the 18th Century
    • Johan Jacob Holbein, who immigrated to Philadelphia in
    • Johann Jacob Holbein, who landed in Pennsylvania in 1
    Holbein Settlers in United States in the 19th Century
    • Andrew Holbein, who was naturalized in Philadelphia in
    • Frederick Holbein, who applied for naturalization in Ohio in
    • Christopher Holbein, aged 29, who arrived in Mobile, Ala in 1

    Holbein migration to Canada +

    Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

    Holbein Settlers in Canada in the 19th Century
    • Charles Holbein, who was recorded to be living in Ontario in

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    Hans Holbein the Elder was a German painter.

    Holbein was born in free imperial city of Augsburg (Germany), and died in Isenheim, Alsace (now France). He belonged to a celebrated family of painters; his father was Michael Holbein; his brother was Sigmund Holbein (died ). He had two sons, both artists and printmakers: Ambrosius Holbein (c. – c. ) and Hans Holbein the Younger (c. – ), who both had their first painting lessons from their father.

    The date of Holbein's birth is unknown. His name appears in the Augsburg tax books in , superseding that of his father. As early as , Holbein had a following, and he worked that year at the abbey at Weingarten, creating the wings of an altarpiece representing Joachim's Offering, the Nativity of the Virgin Mary's Presentation in the Temple, and the Presentation of Christ. Today they hang in separate panels in the cathedral of Augsburg.

    Holbein painted richly colored religious works. His later paintings show how he pioneered and led the transformation of German art from the (Late) International Gothic to the Renaissance style. In addition to the altar paintings that are his principal works, he also designed church windows and woodcuts. The surviving prints that can be attributed to him are few and a new one has recently been added to the group, an Annunciation to the Virgin in the collection of the Universitätbibliothek in Erlangen. He also made a number of portrait drawings that foreshadow the work of his famous son, Hans Holbein the Younger.

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