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[Manuscript]. [Engraving]. [Devotion]. [Italy, 18th century]. A touching testimony to piety, most probably produced in Italy in the 18th century. It is a volume measuring 12 x 9 x 3.5 cm, bound in garnet-red morocco, 5-ribbed mute spine, gilded filigree irons decorating the boxes, double fillet edging the boards with crowned dolphins as corner finials, remains of gilding on the edges (binding distorted and rubbed, flaws including gilding partly erased, some ff. unbound, marks of use). It consists of 38 copper-engraved plates, printed on parchment, colored and enhanced with gold. Of these images, depicting scenes from the life of Christ and the saints, 13 bear the signature of Flemish engraver Michel (or Michiel) Brunet (1680-1739), one by Cornelius Galle jeune (also a Flemish engraver, c. 1615-1678). There is a final (worn) plate on paper, featuring a portrait of Pius V (1504-1572). It also contains [3] sheets of parchment, and [82] sheets of paper bearing on the r° and v° texts of prayers in Italian, written by several hands. Other handwritten texts can be found on the v° of some plates.

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[Manuscript]. [Engraving]. [Devotion]. [Italy, 18th century]. A touching testimony to piety, most probably produced in Italy in the 18th century. It is a volume measuring 12 x 9 x 3.5 cm, bound in garnet-red morocco, 5-ribbed mute spine, gilded filigree irons decorating the boxes, double fillet edging the boards with crowned dolphins as corner finials, remains of gilding on the edges (binding distorted and rubbed, flaws including gilding partly erased, some ff. unbound, marks of use). It consists of 38 copper-engraved plates, printed on parchment, colored and enhanced with gold. Of these images, depicting scenes from the life of Christ and the saints, 13 bear the signature of Flemish engraver Michel (or Michiel) Brunet (1680-1739), one by Cornelius Galle jeune (also a Flemish engraver, c. 1615-1678). There is a final (worn) plate on paper, featuring a portrait of Pius V (1504-1572). It also contains [3] sheets of parchment, and [82] sheets of paper bearing on the r° and v° texts of prayers in Italian, written by several hands. Other handwritten texts can be found on the v° of some plates.

Estimate 400 - 500 EUR

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