Sommaire des principaux fondateurs et reformateurs des ordres religieux
Subtitle: auec leurs pourtraicts, ensemble leurs institution et confirmation, le tout dispose selon l'ordre des tempts
By: par le p. Louis Beurrier ...
Contributors: Lochom, Michel van, 1601-1647; Bolswert, Boece van, ca. 1580-1633; Bolswert, Schelte, ca. 1586-1659; Wierix, Jeronimus, 1553-1619
Publisher: Chez Michel van Lochom ...
Published: 1635
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 52
Subjects: Portraits; Monks; Monasticism and religious orders; Early works to 1800; Catholic Church; Biography
Notes: NUC pre-1956

Getty copy comprises engraved title leaf and plates only (the latter signed by van Lochom). It lacks the letterpress text found in some other copies, e.g. the Yale copy in NUC with foliation: [6], 49 [i.e. 50] leaves, and with imprint on the letterpress title: A Paris: Chez la veuve G. Le Noir..., 1635.

Bound after Beurrier's Sommaire in Getty copy are 62 additional plates with religious subjects, taken from various sources. The leaves of the vol. as a whole have been numbered 0-114 in brown ink on the versos, the title leaf of Sommaire being assigned the no. 0. Plate 113 has been excised. The additional plates are briefly described in the following list, ordered by the MS numbers on versos.

53. Port. of Urban VIII, signed: Joannes van Mechelen excudit a.o 1623 -- 54. Ten Commandments, signed: Jan van Halbeeck excudit Antwerpiae -- 55. Opening of John's Gospel, signed: L C, Jaspar Isaac ex. -- 56. Christ child, by Schelte Bolswert -- 57. Ecce Homo -- 58. Christ, by Michel Faulte, Jean Messager excud. -- 59. Angel of the Annunciation, Boece van Bolswert excudit -- 60. Mary with Joachim and Anne -- 61-67. Depictions of Madonna & Child, by Schelte Bolswert. Inscribed on verso of plate 61 is sonnet in French, signed: Duelincourt -- 68. Madonna & Child, with pencilled note in Ellis Waterhouse's hand: After an Italian engraving signed FMF -- 69-70. Madonna & Child, by Jeronimus Wierix, privilege Buschere. No. 70 is after H.V. Balen -- 71. Madonna & Child, Boece van Bolswert excudit -- 72. Madonna & Child, Jaspar Isaac ex. -- 73. Madonna & Child, signed ZD (Zacharias Dolendo?), Hi ex. --

74. Engraved title leaf for: Qvindecim mysteria Rosarii B.V. Mariae, Boece van Bolswert excudebat -- 75. Assumption -- 76-77. Rosary, numbered 1-2 and signed by Jeronimus Wierix, privilege Piermans -- 78. Christ & Mary, by Jeronimus Wierix after H.V. Balen -- 79-81. St. Margaret, Jean Messager or Jaspar Isaac exc. -- 82-89. Female saints, by Schelte Bolswert -- 90. Female saint, by du Brayet -- 91. Last Judgment, by Boece van Bolswert -- 92. Last Judgment, by Antonie Wierix -- 93. Order of the Holy Trinity, by Leonard Gaultier, Jean Messager excudit -- 94. Mary & St. Benedict, by Leonard Gaultier, Jean Messager excudit, 1615 -- 95-112, 114. Male saints and ecclesiastics, signed variously by Boece van Bolswert, Schelte Bolswert, Jaspar Isaac, Karel van Mallery, Matheus, Jean Messager, Antonie Wierix, Jeronimus Wierix. Privilege Piermans, no. 108.

Binding: old sheepskin. Spine gilt tooled, with brief title on label. Edges red.

Bookplates on front pastedown of de Lamothe aine avocat de Bordeaux, and of Ph.-L. de Bordes de Fortage. Ownership inscription on front flyleaf of S[imon] A[ntoine] Lamothe dated 1749, with continuation recording that the book was given to D. Castaing, deacon of the Collegiate Church of St. Emilion. Pencilled signature of E.K. Waterhouse.