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Solitvdo, sive vitae patrvm eremicolarum : per antiquissimu[m] Patrem D. Hieronimu[m] eorundem primarium olim conscripta / iam verò primum̀ aeneis laminis, idq́[ue] Ioannis et Raphael Sadeler, fratru[m] impensis scalpt. & excusa.

Accession number
PML 126177
Creator
Sadeler, Jan, 1550-1600?
Published
[S.l. : s.n., 159-?]
Credit line
Bequest of E. Clark Stillman; 1995.
Notes
Figures after Maarten de Vos.
Engraved throughout.
"Ces cinq articles forment la collection des Pères du désert, gravés par les frères Sadeler et Adrien Collaert, mais sans texte; on ne les trouve pas souvent réunis"--Brunet, v. 5, p. 23. Only four of the five are present in library copy.
Cut out and mounted in an album; pencilled notes in an eighteenth or early nineteenth century English hand beneath the first five plates.
Bound with: (1) Sylvae sacrae, Jan and Raphael Sadeler (Munich: s.n., 1594), engraved title page + 29 plates; (2)Trophaevm vitae solitariae, Maarten de Vos, Jan and Raphael Sadeler (Venice: s.n., 1598), engraved title page + 25 plates; (3) Oracvlvm anachoreticvm, Maarten de Vos, Jan and Raphael Sadeler (s.l.: s.n., 1600).
Description
[1], 29 leaves : all ill. (engravings) ; 26 x 34 cm. (fol.)
Provenance
Collection of E. Clark Stillman.
Binding
3/4 brown calf.
Classification
Department