Oraculum anachoreticum
Subtitle: requies animae
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1600
Place of publication: Venetijs
Language: lat
Number of pages: 25
Subjects: Hermits; Pictorial works; Desert Fathers
Other titles: Oracvlvm anachoreticvm
Notes: Figures after Maarten de Vos; plates signed by Jan and Raphael Sadeler and Adriaen Collaert.

Engraved throughout.

"Ces cinq articles forment la collection des Pères du désert, gravés par les frères Sadeler et Adrien Collaert, mais sans texte; on ne les trouve pas souvent réunis"--Brunet, v. 5, p. 23.

Illustrated title page is signed above dedication to Clemens VIII (in lower right corner of ill.): Marti[n] de Vos figur. Ioa[n] Sadeler scalpsit Venetijs.

Dedication page within decorative engraved border of fruits and vegetables.

Grässe, v. 6, p. 212

Hollstein, F.W.H. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700, v. 21, p. 153-155 (nos. 437-450)

Hollstein, F.W.H. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and wood cuts, ca. 1450-1700, v. 21, p. 244-245 (nos. 145-157)

Bound with: no. 4 in a volume of all-engraved works on the Desert Fathers and female hermits.

No. 1 in a volume of 5 related works.

Bound in contemporary vellum with four leather ties (one detached); several sheets of watercolored paper (some with ms. section numbering) used as dividers; in case.

Bound in half brown morocco, marbled boards (57-1499 through 57-1503).