Christi Iesu vitæ admirabiliu[s]q[ue] actionum speculum . A Philippo Gallæo apparatu[m] Bened. Ariæ Montani singularibus distichis instructum.
Benito Arias Montano (1527-1598)
Category
Books
Date
1574
Materials
Place of origin
Antwerp
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3142740
Summary
Bibliographic description
[1],50,[1] leaves . ill.. . obl. 4to.. Provenance: manuscript inscription: "Calke Abbey Library 1826 George Crewe this book, was purchased by me at the shop of Mr. Dash, Bookseller of Kettering Northamptonshire; Nineteenth-century small Baronet's badge bookplate, with Harpur & Crewe crests, with inscription: Calke Abbey Library [i.e. Sir George Crewe, 8th Baronet (1795-1844)]. Binding: Eighteenth-century [?] full green grained leather binding; gilt fillet and gilt tooled border; spine gilt decorated and gilt lettered.
Makers and roles
Benito Arias Montano (1527-1598), author Peeter Heyns (1537-1598), translator Gerard Groenning, illustrator Jan Wierix (1549 - c.1618), illustrator Philip Galle (Haarlem 1537 - Antwerp 1612), publisher