Ehren Gedechtnus dess durchleuchtigen hochgebornen Fürsten vnnd Herren Herrn Ludwigen Landgraven zu Hessen, Graven zu Catzenelnbogen, Dietz, Zigenhain vnd Nidda
Contributors: Merian, Matthaeus, 1593-1650; Hampel, Nikolaus, 1572-1652
Publisher: Apud Nicolaum Hampelium, typographum academiae
Published: 1628
Place of publication: Marpurgi
Language: ger
Number of pages: 304
Subjects: Death and burial; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Early works to 1800; Social life and customs
Notes: Approximate date of publication from Wüthrich.

Signatures: pi² [dagger]² A-2P⁴ ²A-Y⁴ Z⁶.

Final page blank.

Errata: p. 187 (fourth series).

The first section includes [54] p. of copper engravings, comprising 43 plates (11 double-page), including an engraved title page and 25 p. of engraved text within ornamental borders, chiefly engraved by Matthaeus Marian. 15 of the plates are numbered in the upper right corner. Inserted between plate 41 and 42 are 4 letterpress pages.

Text comprises epitaphs in Latin, one signed by Rudolph Goclenius (1st section); sermons and eulogies in German by Johannes Vietor and others, with personalia and a description of the funeral procession (2d section); and secular orations, poems, etc. in Latin by Conrad Bachmann and others (3d section.)

Sermons delivered 1626-1627.

Wüthrich, L.H.  Das druckgraphische Werk von Matthaeus Merian d. Ae., vol. 2, Nr. 83

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German and Latin.