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The days of Creation shown in 10 circular emblems [print].

Accession number
PML 145850.4
Published
[Frankfurt : Lucam Jennis, 1618]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
At upper right: Haec tabula pertinet in secundam partem praefationis Basilicae Chymicae.
With letterpress below, quoting verses from Genesis.
Engraved illustration removed from Johann Daniel Mylius' "Opus medico-chymicum: Continens tres Tractatus sive Basilicas: Quorum prior inscribitur Basilica Medica. Secundus Basilica Chymica. Tertius Basilica Philosophica" (Frankfurt : Lucam Jennis, 1618).
Mounted as item 4 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Description
1 print : engraving ; image: 155 x 325 mm; trimmed sheet: 273 x 326 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Classification
Department