Euangelicae historiae imagines ex ordine Euangeliorum, quae toto anno in missae sacrificio recitantur, in ordinem temporis vitae Christi digestae. /
Nadal, Gerónimo,1507-1580.
Passeri, Bernardino,-approximately 1590,illustrator.
Vos, Maarten de,1532-1603,illustrator.
Collaert, Adriaen,-1618,engraver.
Collaert, Jan,1566-1628,engraver.
Mallery, Karel van,1571-approximately 1635,engraver.
Wierix, Antonie,approximately 1552-1624?,engraver.
Wierix, Jeronimus,1553-1619,engraver.
Wierix, Jan,active 16th century,engraver.
Antuerpiae : [Martin Nutius],
Anno D[omi]ni M.D.X.CII. [1593]
Engraved illustrated title page, and head- and tail-pieces.
Plates engraved by Antonie, Hieronymus and Jan Wierix, Adriaen and Jan Collaert the Younger, and Karel van Mallery, mostly after Bernardino Passeri and Maarten de Vos. The signatures vary, Passeri's gradually disappearing in later impressions.
The plates are numbered 1-153, in temporal order, and i-cliij, in liturgical order.
Second leaf is dedication to Clement VIII by Jacobus Ximenez, Secretary of the Society of Jesus. Reader's preface, p. [5]. Index, p. [6]-[8]. On p. [9]-[10] is the papal privilege granted to Martin Nutius for the intended publication of Gerónimo Nadal's Adnotationes et meditationes, which appeared in 1595 with the present plates reissued as illustrations, as well as for the 153 plates published separately. The privilege is signed by Vestrius Barbianus and dated Aug. 14, 1593. Plates of the present work very probably printed by Martin Nutius; see Wadell, p. 18.
In a box with line border above the image, each engraving bears the day in the church calendar with which is is associated, a Bible citation, and the year of Christ's life to which it pertains. At the right end of the box is an arabic numeral, giving the sequence of the image in Christ's life, by which the prints in the present work are ordered. Below the arabic numeral is a roman number, giving the sequence of the print's subject in the Gospel readings through the church year, by which the engravings are arranged in Nadal's Adnotationes et meditationes. The images bear letters keyed to explanations in a box beneath.
Brunet writes that the roman numeral was added for the publication of Adnotationes et meditationes.
Bookplate of Fort Augustus Library and library pressmark label on front pastedown: Artes Elegantiores A3.
Backer-Sommervogel,
Brunet
Jesus Christ
Catholic Church
Bible.
Bible.
Christian art and symbolism