Le viue imagini di tutti quasi gl'imperatori, da C. Iulio Caesare, insino a Carlo V. et Ferdinando suo fratello, dalle vechie medaglie con grandissima solertia cauate, et al vero fidelissimamente adumbrate, con le vite, atti, maniere, virtu, et vicii delli medesimi imperatori, secundo i proprii loro colori, col historico penello depinte. Al potentissimo Prencipe Don Philippo Re di Spagna, Dengliterra, di Franza, di Napoli, &c. dedicate per Huberto Goltz VVirtzburgense pittore.
Hubert Goltzius (Venio 1526 - Bruges 1583).
Category
Books
Date
1557
Materials
Place of origin
Antwerp
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3221513
Summary
Bibliographic description
[176] leaves : geneal. tables, col. ports. ; fol. Provenance: eighteenth-century Jacobean armorial bookplate (Franks 32206), lettered: William Windham Esquire [i.e. either William Windham II (1717-1761) or William Windham III (1750-1810)]. Manuscript former shelfmark in pencil on front pastedown: "P7" (crossed out). Manuscript inscription in sixteenth-century[?] hand (crossed through in black ink) and initial "B." at head of title page. Binding: seventeenth or eighteenth-century half-bound calf with marbled paper over boards; rebacked in goatskin with panels of original gold-tooled spine retained. Binder's typescript conservation note pasted onto rear pastedown, signed and dated 'Nicholas Pickwoad December 1984'.
Makers and roles
Hubert Goltzius (Venio 1526 - Bruges 1583). Diesth, Aegid. Coppenius