Beschreibung und Abbildung Aller Königl. und Churfürstl. Ein-Züge / Wahl und Crönungs Acta, So geschehen zu Franckfurt am Mayn / im Jahr 1658. Sampt andern darzu gehörigen und beygefügten Sachen.
RA Collection: Book
Record number
07/4350
Imprint
Franckfurt am Mayn /: Bey Caspar Merian / Buchhandlern und Kupferstechern daselbsten. -, Im Jahr M DC LVIII.
Physical Description
[17] f., [25] pl.; 294 mm.
General Note
Of the letterpress the leaves [1, 2, 16, 17] are single; leaves [3, 4, 6, 7, 11-14] are double; leaves [5, 8, 9, 10, 15] consist of two double leaves pasted together. Among the plates plates [1, 2, 3, 12, 21, 22, 23, 25] are double; plates [10, 11] consist of two single leaves pasted together; plates [4 -9, 24] consist of two double leaves pasted together; plates [13-20] are single.
Contents
[T.p., dedic.] - [Text and pl.] - Bericht an den Buchbinder / in welcher Ordnung die Kupffer-Tafeln und beygetruckte Schriften gehefftet und eingebunden werden sollen.
Responsibility Note
Six plates are unsigned; the rest are signed by Caspar Merian as maker or as draughtsman and maker, or carry his imprint as printer.
References
A survey of pageants was B. Holme, Princely feasts and festivals: five centuries of pageantry (1988).
Summary Note
Most plates show public processions and pageantry marking the coronation of Leopold I as Holy Roman Emperor at Frankfurt-am-Main in 1658. Plates [13-20] show portraits of various notables.
Reproductions
An electronic edition was published in 2000 (Wolfenbüttel: Herzog August Bibliothek); a microfiche version in 1998 (Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Cicognara Program); a microfilm version in 199- (Wolfenbüttel: Herzog August Bibliothek).
Provenance
A preliminary leaf is inscribed in pencil, 'HW 13 Feb. 1827', and in red ink, '1973'.
Binding Note
17th-century mottled calf; gilt-decorated spine lettered 'Wahl U. Crönungs Diarium Leopoldi I. Wahl U. Cronungs Diarium Josephi I.'. green morocco spine-label lettered 'R.A.' [Bound with two others.]