Accession number
PML 150086
Creator
Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543.
Published
Lyons : Printid by Iohan Frellon, 1549.
Credit line
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman.
Notes
Originally published 1538 with Latin text only under title: Historiarum ueteris Instrvmenti Icones ad uiuum expressæ ...
Illustrations: 94 half-page woodcuts depicting Old Testament scenes; four small cuts of the Evangelists (not by Holbein) on p. [102]; Frellon's device on t. p. and p. [103]; two initials.
Harvard: French 16th century, 283// STC 3045//.
Text comprises anonymous English translation of the Latin captions of the 1539 edition and French verses by Gilles Corrozet as revised in the second 1547 edition.
Illustrations: 94 half-page woodcuts depicting Old Testament scenes; four small cuts of the Evangelists (not by Holbein) on p. [102]; Frellon's device on t. p. and p. [103]; two initials.
Harvard: French 16th century, 283// STC 3045//.
Text comprises anonymous English translation of the Latin captions of the 1539 edition and French verses by Gilles Corrozet as revised in the second 1547 edition.
Description
52 leaves : illus. ; 20 cm
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Red levant binding by Capé. In a slip case.
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