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Icones historiarum Veteris Testamenti : ad viuum expressae, extremáque diligentia emendatiores factae, Gallicis in expositione homoeoteleutis, ac versuum ordinibus (qui prius turbati, ac impares) suo numero restitutis.

Accession number
PML 126136
Creator
Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543.
Published
Lugduni : Apud Ioannem Frellonium, 1547.
Credit line
Bequest of E. Clark Stillman; 1995.
Notes
Illustrations by Hans Holbein.
The engraver was, supposedly, Hans Lützelburger. The French verse paraphrases of Scripture passages are by Gilles Corrozet.
Signatures: A-N⁴.
94 Old Testament woodcuts; 4 medallion woodcuts of the Evangelists on leaf N3v are by another artist. Cf. Mortimer.
Description
[104] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 16 cm (4to)
Provenance
Charles Bruce, Earl of Ailesbury (1682-1747), bookplate (when still Viscount Bruce of Ampthill); collection of E. Clark Stillman.
Binding
Brown morocco, stamped in blind on front and back with traces of gold on spine.
Classification
Department