Accession number:
PML 127118
Published:
[Italy]: ill. , [ca. 1750?].
Credit:
Purchased on the Fellows Fund as the gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1991.
Description:
1 sheet : ; 33 cm.
Notes:
Bookbinder's cover: on front cover within a memento mori border of skulls and crossbones, signed Gio. Antonelli. Inuent. Sculp, a priest celebrates the consecration during the Mass, while an angel leads a soul from the fires of Purgatory to Christ in glory after the Resurrection, Death (a winged skeleton with scythe) looking on and holding an hourglass; on rear cover the Blessed Virgin intercedes with Christ in glory, enabling angels to carry souls from the fires of Purgatory to Paradise while Death recoils, dropping his hourglass; all within a border of plain and hatched rules.
Two contemporary inscriptions inside front cover, "S. M. Cattedrale" and "Jo. Francesco L. [or Z.?].
HIGH RESERVE; for bindings study only.
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