Sacrarum antiquitatum monumenta; patriarcharum, regum, prophetarum, & virorum verè illustrium Veteris Testamenti, imaginibus & elogiis apparata atque inscripta: auctore Ludouico Hillessemio Andernaco.
Ludwig Hillesheim (1514-1597)
Category
Books
Date
1577
Materials
Place of origin
Antwerp
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3210042
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16], 95, [1] p. : ill., port. ; 8vo. Running number: 6052. Imperfect: wanting leaves B1 (pp. 17-18), C5 (pp. 41-42) and F6 (pp. 91-92). Water-staining throughout. Provenance: manuscript equations and list in French ("une petite ... [illegible]"), all in same eighteenth-century[?] hand, on front pastedown. The alphabetical list of illustrations "Catalogus imaginum" on leaf [dagger]8v has had the corresponding page number added in manuscript. Manuscript price[?] on rear pastedown: "Vtt" [5 livres tournois?]. Binding: sixteenth- or seventeenth-century limp parchment; sewn onto three cords. Manuscript on front cover: "No 55 Les prophetes".
Makers and roles
Ludwig Hillesheim (1514-1597), author Jan Sadeler (1550-1600), engraver (printmaker) Crispin van den Broeck (1524-1591), artist Petrus van der Borcht (1545-1608), artist