[Proofs for woodcut illustrations in Jost Amman's Ständ und Orden der H. Römischen Catholischen Kirchen]
Contributors: Lonicer, Adam, 1528-1586; Feyerabend, Sigmund, 1528-1590
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1585
Place of publication: Frankfurt am Main
Language: ger
Number of pages: 16
Subjects: Pictorial works; Early works to 1800; Monasticism and religious orders; Catholic Church
Other titles: Ständ vnd Orden der H. Römischen Catholischen Kirchen
Work titles: Ständ und Orden der H. Römischen Catholischen Kirchen
Notes: Title supplied by cataloger.

This set of proofs consists of 96 woodcuts showing clerical and monastic dress, including that of Pope, Cardinal, Patriarch, Bishop, various orders, including nuns.

The woodcuts were later published by Sigmund Feyerabend in 1585 in "Ständ und Orden ..." by Johann Adam Lonicer and in the Latin translation, "Cleri totius Romanae ecclesiae subiecti" by Franciscus Modius.

The woodcuts are arranged six to a leaf in two columns, printed on one side with each ill. accompanied by an explanatory title in German.

Signatures: A-Q¹.

BM STC German, p. 524