Live auction - Lot 741
[Antwerp - Wierix]
Evangelicae historiae imagines ex ordine Evangeliorum, quae toto anno in Missae sacrificio recitantur, in ordinem temporis vitae Christi digestae.
NATALIS, Hieronymus
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Lot description
Antwerp, s.n., 1596 (with additional colophon of the 1595 Nutius ed. of Natalis' "Annotationes")
Folio; 154 pl. (occ. minor staining).
18th-c. marbled calf, gilt spine with raised bands (skilfuly repaired).
Famous splendid suite of large and detailed Gospel illustrations by the Wierix brothers (and some by J. & A. Collaert, C. Mallery) from Antwerp, with a short commentary by the Spanish Jesuit Nadal (1507-1580): engr. title + 153 numbered engr. plates. Exceptional copy, interleaved with a complete French translation facing the Latin captions. Attributed (in 1786) to a French Jesuit "Grasset", probably Jean Crasset (1618-1692), the author of a.o. "Considérations chrétiennes pour tous les jours de l'année" (Paris 1683).
Ref. DBS V:1518:1. - Mauquoy-Hendrickx "Wierix" 1989-2141. - BT 6376. - Pettegree (NB) 22123.
Prov. "Monastère royal des Filles de Dieu", Order of Fontevrault, Paris (ms. entry, 1785).
Joined: De Mallery, Charles. After Maerten de Vos - Adam and Eve. Antwerp, Theodoor Galle, ca. 1610. Engraving, 16,3 x 11,5 cm (platemark), laid paper, signed in the plate. Ref. New Hollstein (De Vos):1224.
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