917J Marschalk, (sometimes spelled Marschalk) Haug Das Hailig ewyg wort gots, was dz in jm kraft stercke, tugendt, frid, fred, erleuchtung, vnnd leben, in aym rechten Christen zu erweckn vermag. (Augsburg, Ramminger), 1523. Price $4,500 Quarto Signatures:A-C4 Bound in 19th century boards. This is a... Continue Reading →
918J Briesmann, Johannes 1488–1549 Vnderricht vnd ermanung Doct. Johannis Grießsmans, Barfůsser Ordens, an die Christlich gemain zů Cotbus Wittenberg, 1523. (Augsburg, Steiner,* 1523.) Price $3,500 Quarto. A-B4 Bound in later vellum covered with printed leaf The Prussian theologian Johannes Briesmann (also Brismann or... Continue Reading →
“Eyb stressed two things throughout the Margarita: to be able to write well and to be disposed to live properly.” Albrecht von Eyb (who has a few more than the usual variations of his name [see https://data.cerl.org/thesaurus/cnp01316161%5D 364J Albrecht von... Continue Reading →
So here are just 8 of the ones who come to the top of my head. Some Not-So-Famous PrintersThe history of printing is usually told through its giants—Aldus, Plantin, Estienne—but most early books were produced far from those centers, by... Continue Reading →
Although often gathered under the convenient label of “emblem books,” the four works assembled here occupy a more oblique and revealing position within the history of moral and mnemonic illustration. Adnotationes et meditationes in Evangelia and Geistliche Schöpfung are not emblem books in any... Continue Reading →
an exposition on just one emblem from Paradin's Les Devises héroïques 1567. Praestat insignem gloria facti,
Few books better embody the Counter-Reformation synthesis of image, text, and devotion than Hieronymus Nadal’s Adnotationes et meditationes in Evangelia (Antwerp, 1595). Conceived as a visual and spiritual instrument for the global mission of the Society of Jesus, this monumental folio unites 153 superb Flemish engravings—by the Wierix circle and their collaborators—with a systematic program of Gospel meditation. Issued posthumously under Jesuit supervision, Nadal’s work stands as one of the great illustrated Gospel books of the late sixteenth century and a cornerstone of Jesuit visual culture.
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