Ova paschalia sacro emblemate inscripta descriptaq[ue]
By: a Georgio Stengelio Societatis Iesu theologo
Publisher: Apud Nicolam Henricum electoralem typographum]
Published: 1634
Place of publication: Monachii [i.e. Munich
Language: lat
Number of pages: 604
Subjects: Discovery and exploration; German Emblem books; Spanish
Other titles: Ova paschalia sacro emblemate inscripta descriptaque.
Notes: Colophon reads: Monachii, Apud Nicolam Henricum electoralem typographum.

Fully engraved title page.

Signatures: *⁸ **⁸ ***⁴ (-***4) (***2 verso blank) A-V⁸ chi1 X-Z⁸ a-q⁸ r⁴

Includes index.

Engraved tail pieces; initials.

Includes one hundred egg-shaped emblems such as images which come from the Bible, everyday life, plants, exotic and common animals, ships, astronomers, death themes, metals and minerals, pharmaceuticals, handicrafts, and various hermetic themes. emblem XI on p. 59 depicts Christopher Columbus and describes his discoveries in the New World and the Spanish colonies in America.

Landwehr, J. German emblem books 1531-1888, 553.

Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus, VII: col. 1554, no. 62.

Praz, M. Studies in seventeenth-century imagery (2d ed.), p. 504.

Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachraum erschienenen Drucke des 17. Jahrhunderts (VD 17), 12:104370P.

Purchase; 2017; 18-195.

John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: "Lectori" leaf, here misbound following approbation leaf, p. [16], is intended to be bound following p. 320 as p. [1-2], 3rd count.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary vellum.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the St. Mariana Fund.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: some leaves include marginal notes in an unknown contemporary ms. hand.