Pomarium mysticu[m] tu[m] nouorum tu[m] veteru[m] fructuu[m], animae Christianae : imagu[n]culis aliquot nascentis mundi exordia, neq[ue] non totius pene vitae Christi decursum referentibus, precatio[n]ibus quoq[ue] regione picturae ad rem facientibus pulcherrime digestum. Effigies insuper aliquot diuorum ac diuarum, praecognitorum praedestinatorum vocatorum, iustificatorum, ac demum magnificatorum a Deo, cum nonnullis alijs homini Christiano perquam acco[m]modis ex sacrarum literarum viridariis decerptis / per Guillielmum Branteghen ...

Accession number

PML 196038

Creator

Branteghem, Willem van, active 16th century.

Published

Antwerp : Willem Vorsterman, 1535.

Credit line

Purchased on the Curt F. Bühler Fund, 2014.

Notes

Title within woodcut ornamental border.
One of three editions published by Vorsterman in the same year, the two other editions in French and Dutch, all with the same woodcut illustrations. The woodcuts are based on prints by Albrecht Dürer, Hans Sebald Beham, and other German artists.
The woodcuts are hand colored in this copy.

Description

[100] leaves : ill. (92 woodcuts) ; 17 cm. (octavo)

Provenance

Bookplates of Ulco Proost and Hanns-Theo Schmitz-Otto.

Binding

Mottled calf, gilt edges.

Classification

Book

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Department

Printed Books