Accession number
PML 16217
Creator
Passe, Crispijn van de, approximately 1565-1637.
Published
[Cologne, Germany] : [no printer] 1602-[1604]
Credit line
Gift of Joseph Martini, 1909.
Notes
Plate 8 dated "Coloniae Agrippin. [Cologne], 1604"; plate 49 dated 1602 and signed "Crispian van de Passe invent. excudit." Passe also signed plates 59, 69, 71, 74-5, 82, 85, 91, 93, 98, 103, 108, 111, 114, 121, 126.
Designs by Maarten de Vos (1532-1603): plates 21, 38-39, 44, 72, 96, 98.
131 engraved plates with 4-line legends in Latin quoted from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Proof prints before engraved numbers added.
No text.
Not in Guilmard or British Museum Cat.
Designs by Maarten de Vos (1532-1603): plates 21, 38-39, 44, 72, 96, 98.
131 engraved plates with 4-line legends in Latin quoted from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Proof prints before engraved numbers added.
No text.
Not in Guilmard or British Museum Cat.
Description
131 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 16 x 21 cm (oblong folio)
Provenance
Joseph Martini (his bookplate); Pierpont Morgan, gift of Giuseppe (Joseph) Martini, Sept. 1909.
Binding
Stiff laced vellum.
Classification
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