Principes Hollandiae et Zelandiae, domini Frisiae: auctore Michaële Vosmero. Cum genuinis ipsorum iconibus, à Theodorico Aquitaniae ad Iacobam Bauariae, diuersorum quondam pictorum opera, ad viuum sedulò depictis: nunc autem primùm ex vetustissimis parietibus, in Carmelo obsessae vrbis Harlemi, per praesidiarios direpto, industria Guilielmi Thybauti repertis, ac sincerè vnà cum reliquorum Principum figuris, ad instar probatissimorum exemplarium delineatis.
Vosmeer, Michiel, d. 1616
Category
Books
Date
1578
Materials
Place of origin
Antwerp
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3223267
Summary
Bibliographic description
87, [1] p. : 36 ports. ; fol. Running number: 7583. Leaves A1, K1 and K4 mounted on blank leaves with windows cut out to show printed text on the versos; leaves D2 and D3 repaired. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf: "M. 36. Icones" [i.e. catalogue code and count of illustrations, written by John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript inscriptions on title page: "Jan van Domburch 1616" and "Author Mro Joanni A Treslong Iurisconscultiss:". Binding: eighteenth-century full plain vellum over boards; fore-edge of front board nibbled by rodents; spine cracked at tail, partially missing.
Makers and roles
Vosmeer, Michiel, d. 1616 Philip Galle (Haarlem 1537 - Antwerp 1612) Willem Willemsz Thibaut (1524/6-1597/9) Christophe Plantin (1520-1589).