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Duodecim specula Deum aliquando videre desideranti concinnata / auctore P. Ioanne David Societatis Iesu Sacerdote.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Lea Collection M.8.25
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- David, Jan, 1545?-1613.
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Christian ethics--Catholic authors.
- Christian ethics.
- Emblems--Early works to 1800.
- Emblems.
- Conduct of life--Early works to 1900.
- Conduct of life.
- Christian life--Early works to 1800.
- Christian life.
- Genre:
- Emblem books -- Belgium -- 17th century.
- Printers' devices (Printing) -- Belgium -- 17th century.
- Penn Provenance:
- Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909 (autograph) (bookplate)
- Physical Description:
- 16 unnumbered pages, 184 pages, 16 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 20 cm (8vo)
- Other Title:
- Dvodecim specvla Devm aliqvando videre desideranti concinnata
- Place of Publication:
- Antuerpiae : Ex officina Plantiniana, apud Ioannem Moretum, MDCX [1610]
- Notes:
- Engraved t.p.; title within architectural border; head- and tail-pieces.
- Printer's mark on p. [16] of final sequence.
- Includes 12 full page emblematical engravings by Theodore Galle. Cf. Landwehr.
- Signatures: *⁸ A-M⁸ N⁴.
- Local Notes:
- Penn Libraries copy bound with: David, Jan. Typus occasionis. Antuerpiae : Delineabat et incidebat Theodorus Gallaeus, MDCIII [1603] -- Hensbergh, Vincent. Miracula et beneficia SS. Rosario Virginis Matris deuotis a Deo Opt. Max. collata. Antuerpiae : Theodorus Gallaeus excudebat, MDCX [1610] -- Nys, Joannes. Vita et miracula S.P. Dominici Praedicatorii Ordinis primi institutoris. Antuerpiae : Apud Theodoru[m] Gallaeum, MDCXI [1611].
- Penn Libraries copy imperfect: engraved title leaf and 12 engraved plates only.
- Penn Libraries copy has Henry Charles Lea's bookplate on front pastedown and his autograph (1879) on front free endpaper; ms. notes in pencil on front pastedown and front free endpaper; ms. shelf mark on front free endpaper.
- Cited in:
- Praz, M. Studies in 17th century imagery, II, p. 46
- Landwehr, J. Dutch emblem books, 53
- OCLC:
- 45239615
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