Lvx clavstri
Subtitle: La lvmiere dv cloistre
By: representées par figures emblematiques dessignées & grauées par Iacques Callot
Publisher: Chez François Langlois, dict Chartres ...
Published: 1646
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre; lat
Number of pages: 27
Subjects: Emblem books; Carthusians
Other titles: Lumière du cloistre; Lux claustri
Notes: 27 emblem etchings with Latin captions and legends and French verses.

Signatures: a² A-G⁴ (G4 blank).

Error in foliation: leaf 25 misnumbered 28.

Meaume 234-260 2nd state. Bruwaert, E. Vie de Jacques Callot. p. 103, 182, 216

With: Vie de la Mere de Diev / Jacques Callot. [s.l. : s.n. 16--]

Bequest; Philip Hofer; 1984; H15-113.

Gift; Philip Hofer; February 1942; 41H-11.

From the library of G. Storck, title page and versos of etchings have ownership inscriptions "G. Storck a Milano, 1799 ..."; and from the library of Georgiana Bentinck, with inscription on front pastedown "Georgiana Bentinck from her affectionate [?] Delamere, 1846.

Bound with: Henry Humbert's Combat a la barriere (Nancy, 1627).

Imperfect: title page and preliminary leaf wanting; leaf G1 misbound at end; extra leaf added after F4 and also signed G1; the extra leaf was removed from the copy of Callot's Vie de la mere with which this work is bound; the extra leaf has the caption "Heroidi victrici", with Callot's etching of a crown and wreath.

Bound in full contemporary calf.

Bound in rose cloth, leather spine label.