Accession number:
PML 199339
Published:
Antuerpiae : Ex officina Christophori Plantini ..., M.D. LXXVII [1577]
Description:
194, [2] pages : illustrations (engraving) ; 24 cm
Credit:
Purchased on the T. Kimball Brooker Foundation Book Purchase Fund in honor of the Morgan's Centennial.
Notes:
Title within ornamental border signed "Bernardinus Passarus", with coat of arms of Pope Gregory XIII and two cardinals.
The 55 copper-engravings (including title) were made in Italy, after the designs of the Roman painter Bernardino Passeri, with the exception of that on p. 88, which is signed "PB" [i.e. Pieter van der Borcht] as designer and "IHW" [i.e. engraver Jan Wierix], which belonged to the Plantin stock.
Colophon: Huius operis dilige[n]ter impressi Lugduni a magistro Johanne cleyn alemano. Anno salutis nostre. M. quingentesimoquinto. Ad idus Iulij. [i.e. July 13th, 1505].
Roman and italic type, 28 lines plus headline.
Signatures: A-Z⁴, a⁴ [b2]: 98 leaves.
Binding:
Nineteenth-century crushed red morocco (242 x 178 mm) by C. Hardy (of Paris) with his stamp on verso of upper endleaf, richly gilt framing imitating eighteenth-century style, spine with title and place of printing with date in gilt in second and third compartments, other compartments richly gilt, inner dentelles, marbled pastedowns and endleaves, edges gilt and marbled.
Variant Title:
Rerum sacrarum liber
Provenance:
Édouard Amédée Didron (1836-1902), nineteenth-century red inkstamp on upper endleaf "DIDRON / PEINTRE-VERRIER / PARIS". acquisition: Purchased in 2019 from Librairie Paul Jammes, Paris; purchased by: T. Kimball Brooker, his sale: Sotheby's (London), Bibliotheca Brookeriana V, 10 Dec. 2024, lot 1101.
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