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MODIUS, Franciscus - AMMAN, Jost

Cleri totius Romanae ecclesiae subiecti, seu, pontificiorum ordinum omnium omnino utriusque sexus, habitus, artificiosissimis figuris

Frankfurt am Main
sumptibus Sigmund Feyerabend [ex officina Martin Lechler]
1585

€400 - €600

4to, [114] ff, 103 woodcuts by Jost Amman (1539-1591), each accompanied by an eight-line verse by the Bruges humanist Franciscus Modius (1556-1597). Title-page soiled, doubled, damp-staining on several pages, some marginal reparations. Modern vellum binding

Ref. VD16 M 5736 ; Colas I, n° 120 ; Lipperheide n° 1853 ; Adams M-1535. The plates depict the costume of a number of religious persons, from the Pope to parish priests and mendicant friars, with additional subjects such as Spanish penitents, Templars, Knights of Rhodes, Teutonic Knights and various orders of monks and nuns

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