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The Source that Inspired Many Copies and Imitations: The Teacher, 1496

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Well, this is more properly called “the Acciples”, but for the sake of modernity we’ll keep to “the teacher”, and it is a beautifuil woodcut image has been reproduced and copied many times over the centuries.  The source for it all is Promptuarium argumentorum dialofice ordinatorum, which was printed in Cologne by Henricus Quentell in 1496.  The work is in the field of pedagogics and philology, and so the stout attention of the pupils and teacher to one another.

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