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XII. Sibyllae, ordine, inscriptione & forma elegantiori quàm antehac vmquam. Exantiguiss. monumentis restitutae & propriis oraculis redditae [graphic] / Petrus Firens sculp.

Firens, Pierre, approximately 1580-1638, printmaker.; Passe, Crispijn van de, approximately 1565-1637, artist.; Leclerc, Jean, active 1573-1627, publisher.; Crubel, Ca., active 17th century, former owner.
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Title
XII. Sibyllae, ordine, inscriptione & forma elegantiori quàm antehac vmquam. Exantiguiss. monumentis restitutae & propriis oraculis redditae [graphic] / Petrus Firens sculp.
Created/published
[Paris] : Iean Le Clerc excud, [ca. 1617]
Description
16 prints : engravings ; plate marks 195 x 132 mm, 190 x 133 mm, or smaller.
Associated name
Firens, Pierre, approximately 1580-1638, printmaker.
Passe, Crispijn van de, approximately 1565-1637, artist.
Leclerc, Jean, active 1573-1627, publisher.
Crubel, Ca., active 17th century, former owner.
Material base
paper
Summary
A set of 16 plates after Crispijn van de Passe's set of Sibyls from 1601 (XII sibyllarum icones elegantissimi). Consists of a title page and representations of the Holy Lamb, Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary, and the twelve sibyls in medallions. Except for the title page and the "Agnus immaculatus," each plate consists of a figure with Latin text on round border and four lines of Latin verse below (the "Agnus immaculatus" has only one line of text below). Plates depicting the various sibyls are numbered in the lower right corner.
Note
Title from title plate.

Individual plates unsigned but all were engraved by Firens according to Jules Renouvier.

Conjectured date from Inventaire du fonds français.

Jean Leclerc was active in Paris.

According to Inventaire du fonds français and the British Museum, Jean Leclerc published another set of sibyls with this title page but with sibyls after Passe by Thomas de Leu.
Cited/described in
Bibliothèque nationale (France). Cabinet des estampes. Inventaire du fonds français. Graveurs du XVIIe siècle, Firens (Pierre I), no. 128
Renouvier, Jules. Des types et des manières des maîtres graveurs ... XVI et XVII siècles, pt. 2, p. 58
Includes
Iēsous Christos Theouuios Aiōnios Sōtēr Kosmou.
Agnus immaculatus.
Maria Dei gratia Regina Virginum, ex stirpe David, mater D.N.I. Chri.
Sibilla Delphica quae et Daphne Tyresiae filia.
Sibylla Erythraea ex Assyriorum Babylone oriunda prisca vocitata.
Sibylla Cumaea quae et Cimmeria Apollinis in cumis sacerdos.
Sibylla Samia quae phyto et Herophile proprio nomine dicta.
Sibylla Cumana quae et Amalthaea et Demophile nuncupatur.
Sibylla Hellespontica Marinessensis ex Agro Troiano.
Sibylla Libyca quae Phoemonoe Apollinis filia nonnullis.
Sibylla Persica quae Hebraea Sambeta nomine et aliis chaldaea Berosi filia.
Sibylla Phrygia Ancyrae vates Cassandra nonnullis credita.
Sibylla Tuburtina quae et Albunea et Italica alias dicta.
Sibylla Europaea incertae adhuc patriae existens
Sibylla Aegyptia quae et Agrippa a quibusdam dicta.
Genre/form
Prints.
Emblems (allegorical pictures)
Allegorical prints.
Place of creation/publication
France -- Paris.

Call number
ART Vol. e272 no.1-16
Folger-specific note
Bound in contemporary vellum; signed "Ca. Crubel" on front cover; '[J Harmy?] 1629' with manuscript price 'couste 40 sols' on front endleaf; 'Joannes [Crubel?]' on rear endleaf. Bound with two other sets published by Jean Le Clerc: The four parts of the day and Heaven, purgatory and hell.
Folger accession
265422.1

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