Oraculos de las doce sibilas, profetisas de Christo n[uest]ro Señor entre los gentiles
By: por el licenciado Balthasar Porreño natural de la ciudad de Cuenca cura de las villas de Sacedon y Corcoles.
Publisher: Por Domingo de la Yglesia; P. de Torres formis
Published: 1621
Place of publication: E[n] Cuenca
Language: spa
Number of pages: 72
Subjects: Jesus Christ -- Messiahship -- Early works to 1800; Sibyls -- Early works to 1800; Sibyls -- Portraits -- Early works to 1800; Oracles, Roman; Women prophets in literature; Women prophets in art; Messianism -- Spain -- Early works to 1800; Apologetics -- Spain -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800; Portraits
Other titles: Oracula Sibyllina.
Notes: The twelve sibyls are here associated with Christian virtues, each sibyl's portrait followed by Latin and Spanish verses and a prose biography.

"Dirigidos a don Lorencio de Figueroa cavallero de la religion de S. Juan, embajador por esta sagrada religion en la corte de su Mag[estad] y comendador de las encomiendas de Pazos Arrenteiros y Peñalen."

Signatures: [paragraph sign]⁸ A-I⁸.

Leaves are printed on both sides. Text and marginalia printed within ruled frames. Verses and Latin text printed in italics.

Engraved title in architectural frame includes Figueroa coat of arms. Twelve full-page woodcut portraits portray the sibyls, each holding a book or other object, each within a circular frame with Latin motto and inside a larger ornamental frame with Latin verse in lower compartment.

LC copy in contemporary limp vellum.

Alfaro Torres. Imprenta en Cuenca 116

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