[Les pères du désert]
Contributors: Sadeler, Raphael, ca. 1560-ca. 1632.; Sadeler, Jan, 1550-1600.; Collaert, Adriaen, d. 1618.; Collaert, Jan, ca. 1540-1628.; Cleghorn, John, fl. 1840-1880.
Publisher: Chez Iollain rue St. Iac[ques] a la ville de Coulŏngne
Published: 1654
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 59
Subjects: Hermits in art -- Early works to 1800.; Christian saints in art -- Early works to 1800.; Engraving, French -- 17th century.; Engraving -- Printing -- Specimens.
Genres: Early works to 1800.; Specimens.
Notes: Captions in Latin.
Honervogt's reworking(?) of engravings by Jan and Raphael Sadeler and Adriaen (and possibly Jan) Collaert (last group) after paintings by Maarten de Vos. For this edition, plates appear to have been trimmed; some images are reversed, some captions switched; a few images may be reprintings from trimmed but otherwise unaltered original plates. Cf. Sadeler's Trophaeum vitae solitariae, Venice, 1598, LCCN 25-2646, and Oraculum anachoreticum, Venice, 1600, LCCN 25-2645.
Each part has engraved t.p. No general t.p.
Some plates signed: I. Honeruog ex[cudit]; I. Honervogt ex; Iac. Honeruog ex; Iollain excudit. Plate 6 in last group signed: M. de Vos inven[i]t, Iollain ex[cudit].
"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; Graesse.
In LC copy, title pages for Trophaeum vitae solitariae and Sylva sacrae appear to have been misbound (switched), according to comparison with Sadeler's edition. Has armorial bookplate signed by John Cleghorn, des. del. et sc..
LC copy has a poem written in French manuscript on the blank page facing each engraved portrait, each poem dedicated to the hermit or saint depicted.
Table of contents: title: Solitudo, siue, Vitae patrum eromicolarum per antiquissimū patrem d. Hieronimum eorundem primarium olim conscripta ; iam vero primum aeneis laminis idq̀[ue]. 1654. 29 pl.; title: Trophaeum vitae solitariae. 1654 29 pl.; title: [Sylva sacrae] Sylvae sacrat. [n.d.] 24 pl.; title: Oraculum anachoreticum. [n.d.] 24 pl.; title: Solitudo, siue, vitae foeminarum anachoritarum. 1656. 24 pl.