Antonio Tempesta's blocks and woodcuts for the Medicean 1591 Arabic Gospels
By: Richard S. Field
Contributors: Tempesta, Antonio, 1555-1630
Publisher: Les Enluminures
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Paris; Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 27
ISBN-13: 9780983854616
Subjects: Illustrations; Illustration of books; History; Woodcuts; Tipografia medicea orientale; Bible
Notes: Cover title.

Design: Virginie Enl'art.

"This essay examines the seventy-three blocks . . . designed by Antonio Tempesta . . . for the Evangelium Sanctum Domini nostri Jesu Christis; sixty-seven of them were used in the volume. Printed and published in Rome in two editions (1590/91 and 1591) by the Typographia Medicea Orientale, it was the first complete Western appearance of the four canonical Gospels in Arabic."--P.1.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 27).

Gift of Jane Rodgers Siegel, November 5, 2012