Guilielmi Hesi Antverpiensis è Societate Iesu Emblemata Sacra De Fide, Spe, Charitate.

Willem Hesius

RA Collection: Book

Record number

07/2875

Author

Variant Title

Emblemata Sacra De Fide, Spe, Charitate

Imprint

Antverpiae,: Ex Officina Plantiniana Balthasaris Moreti., M. DC. XXXVI.

Physical Description

404, [4] p.: illus.; 138 mm. (Duodecimo.)

Contents

[T.p., dedic.] - [Verses &c.] - [Text]; Errata - [Privileges and approbations] - [Printer's device].

Responsibility Note

The illustrations are not signed. They were made by J.C. Jegher after E. Quellinus.

The work is dedicated by Guilielmus Hesius to 'Antonio Triest Episcopo Gandavensi, Domino S. Bavonis ...'.

Reproductions

A facsimile was published in 2005 (Olms). A microfiche version was published in [1981] (Zug: IDC).

Provenance

The title page is inscribed in ink top right illegibly, and in a different hand 'P Ableij'.

Binding Note

17th-century white vellum; later green morocco spine-labels lettered 'Hesii Emblemata' and 'Antverpi: 1636 R - A'.

Subject

Christian art and symbolism - Iconography - Faith - Hope - Charity - Virtues
Emblems - Symbols
Emblem books - Devotional images - Devotional literature - Belgium - 17th century
Pictorial works - Belgium - 17th century

Contributors

Balthasar Moretus senior, publisher, printer
Erasmus Quellinus, draughtsman
Jan Christophel Jegher, engraver