Deorum dearumque capita : ex vetustis numismatibus in gratiam antiquitatis studiosorum effigiata et edita : ex museo Abrahami Ortelii.
1573
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Title
Deorum dearumque capita : ex vetustis numismatibus in gratiam antiquitatis studiosorum effigiata et edita : ex museo Abrahami Ortelii.
Created/published
Antuerpiae : Philippus Gallaeus excudebat, 1573.
Description
[64] leaves : ports. (engravings) ; 21 cm (4to)
Note
Dedication and prefatory epistle by Ortelius.
Heads of divinities and personifications engraved by Philippe Galle (cf. Bib. belgica), each in a roundel with broad border of strapwork and grotesquerie. Within each border are 2 tablets with name of the figure represented and the coin from which it was taken.
Printer from colophon.
Signatures: A⁴ [B-O]⁴ P².
Engraved title page
"Scriptorum veterum ac recentium, qui ex professo deorum gentilium historias vel imagines descripserunt, elenchus": p. [7].
Heads of divinities and personifications engraved by Philippe Galle (cf. Bib. belgica), each in a roundel with broad border of strapwork and grotesquerie. Within each border are 2 tablets with name of the figure represented and the coin from which it was taken.
Printer from colophon.
Signatures: A⁴ [B-O]⁴ P².
Engraved title page
"Scriptorum veterum ac recentium, qui ex professo deorum gentilium historias vel imagines descripserunt, elenchus": p. [7].
Cited/described in
Bib. Belgica (1964-1970 éd.), IV, O-206
Genre/form
Place of creation/publication
Belgium -- Antwerp.
Item Details
Call number
210- 961q
Folger-specific note
In modern green goat. Autograph: Killigrew.
Call number
FAST ACC 272048
Folger-specific note
This is a PRELIMINARY RECORD. It may contain incorrect information. The "FAST ACC" number is a temporary call number. Please email catalog@folger.edu for assistance.
From dealer's description: "First edition of this intriguing collection of portraits of Roman gods and goddesses, based on coins in the collection of Abraham Ortelius. The book is dedicated by Ortelius to Johannes Sambucus (János Zsámboky, 1531-84), the Hungarian scholar, who compiled a famous book of emblems (1564). The list of subjects at the end of the volume shows that it was co-edited by the Antwerp cleric Sebastian Baer (d. 1576). The plates were designed by Hans Vredeman de Vries and Gerard van Groeningen, and engraved by Lucas and Johannes van Doetecum. Each medal is within an elaborate strapwork border, with the name of the subject in a cartouche above, and the provenance of each medal or coin below. The signatures have been supplied by hand, perhaps in the printer’s workshop. This is suggested by the fact that the correct signature ‘I’ is present on the plate of ‘Liberae’, even though it is bound immediately after H1: the three leaves H2-4, with plates of Iuno Regina, Iuno Sospita and Iustitia, have been misbound after I4. The only exception is for the final gathering, where the signature ‘P’ is printed. This copy has been interleaved for an early English owner, possibly the Jo: Harrison who has signed his name in a large and bold hand at the foot of the title page. About twenty of the portraits have been annotated, all in English, more than a dozen of them quite substantially – the most notes are accorded to Jupiter (‘Iovis’), with more than two full pages. John Harrison’s signature could be a good deal earlier than the majority of the notes, which seem to date from around 1700: a note on the Pantheon (just before the illustration of Pan) refers to ‘Sr George Wheelers Travels Folio pag. 283 qm. habeo ... it was printed in Ann. 1682’. Another note (to the head of Sarapis) refers to ‘Great Historical Dictionary’, which is presumably the English translation of Moreri, published in 1694, and a note on Pallas refers to Andreas Christian Eschenbach’s Dissertationes Academicae (Nuremberg, 1705). The first four plates – Aesculapius, two of Apollo, and Bacchus – are lacking in this copy, and the title page has been repaired along the inner margin. Adams O325; Berlin Kat. 229; Cicognara 2954. Adams specifies four leaves in signature A, whereas there are only three (the engraved title page and two letterpress leaves) in this copy."
Ordered from Christopher Edwards, D9411, 2020-09-16, List 78, item #86
From dealer's description: "First edition of this intriguing collection of portraits of Roman gods and goddesses, based on coins in the collection of Abraham Ortelius. The book is dedicated by Ortelius to Johannes Sambucus (János Zsámboky, 1531-84), the Hungarian scholar, who compiled a famous book of emblems (1564). The list of subjects at the end of the volume shows that it was co-edited by the Antwerp cleric Sebastian Baer (d. 1576). The plates were designed by Hans Vredeman de Vries and Gerard van Groeningen, and engraved by Lucas and Johannes van Doetecum. Each medal is within an elaborate strapwork border, with the name of the subject in a cartouche above, and the provenance of each medal or coin below. The signatures have been supplied by hand, perhaps in the printer’s workshop. This is suggested by the fact that the correct signature ‘I’ is present on the plate of ‘Liberae’, even though it is bound immediately after H1: the three leaves H2-4, with plates of Iuno Regina, Iuno Sospita and Iustitia, have been misbound after I4. The only exception is for the final gathering, where the signature ‘P’ is printed. This copy has been interleaved for an early English owner, possibly the Jo: Harrison who has signed his name in a large and bold hand at the foot of the title page. About twenty of the portraits have been annotated, all in English, more than a dozen of them quite substantially – the most notes are accorded to Jupiter (‘Iovis’), with more than two full pages. John Harrison’s signature could be a good deal earlier than the majority of the notes, which seem to date from around 1700: a note on the Pantheon (just before the illustration of Pan) refers to ‘Sr George Wheelers Travels Folio pag. 283 qm. habeo ... it was printed in Ann. 1682’. Another note (to the head of Sarapis) refers to ‘Great Historical Dictionary’, which is presumably the English translation of Moreri, published in 1694, and a note on Pallas refers to Andreas Christian Eschenbach’s Dissertationes Academicae (Nuremberg, 1705). The first four plates – Aesculapius, two of Apollo, and Bacchus – are lacking in this copy, and the title page has been repaired along the inner margin. Adams O325; Berlin Kat. 229; Cicognara 2954. Adams specifies four leaves in signature A, whereas there are only three (the engraved title page and two letterpress leaves) in this copy."
Ordered from Christopher Edwards, D9411, 2020-09-16, List 78, item #86
Folger accession
272048