Shelfmark
Fe.4.05
Author
Uniform title
[Trionfante cruce. Latin]
Title
Crux triumphans et gloriosa, a Iacobo Bosio descripta libris sex; ad sacræ et profanæ historiæ lucem, et Christianæ pietatis augmentum, vtilissimis.
Varying form of title
Other title: Crux triumphans et gloriosa a Jacobo Bosio descripta libris sex
Publication, distribution, etc.
Antuerpiæ, : Ex officina Plantiniana, apud Balthasarem et Ioannem Moretos., M.DC.XVII. [1617]
Physical description
[16], 689, [55] p. : ill. (wdcuts) ; 37 cm. (fol.)
Note
Head- and tail- pieces; initials and printed marginalia; approximately 70 woodcut illustrations.
Note
Printer's device of Plantin Press on recto of penultimate leaf; colophon on leaf Qqq4 verso.
Note
Collation includes half-title, engraved illustrated title-page, signed: 'Pet Paul Rubenius inuenit' and 'Corn: Galieus sculpsit.', and 1 leaf of plates.
Note
Signatures: *⁸ A-Z⁶ Aa-Zz⁶ Aaa-Qqq⁶ (Qqq6 blank).
Citation/references note
The Illustrated Books Published by the Moretuses (Antwerp: Plantin-Moretus Museum, 1997), 26
Citation/references note
BL Low Countries, 1601-1621, B239
Provenance
Presented 1983 by Raef Payne, Esq.
Provenance
Ms. initials "M.R.J." [i.e. M.R. James] dated 1882 on front pastedown.
Provenance
Ms. inscription of Maurice Philip Clifford in a 19th-century hand: "Ex libris Mauritii Philippi Clifford S.F.D."
Provenance
20th-century booklabel of Eton College Library.
Binding
18th-century brown sheep binding; single gold fillet borders; five raised bands; single gold fillet spine decoration; without spine-label or lettering.
Copy-specific note
Imperfect: ECL copy lacks the prelims. and all after 3M5 (i.e. the "Index rerum", privilege and colophon, the catchword "In-" on 3M5v being obscured by a cancel slip.
Copy-specific note
ECL copy has an unrecorded letterpress cancel title-leaf reading "Crux triumphans et gloriosa a Jacobo Bosio descripta. Libris sex: ad sacræ & profanæ historiæ lucem, & Christianæ pietatis augmentum, utilissimis", with woodcut printer's device of a pelican feeding its young with motto "Ex uno vivimus", matching the description of a device used by Franciscus Hegerus in Leiden, 1634.
Copy-specific note
Previously: Fe.4.03.
Subject
Subject
Christianity Early works to 1800.
Subject
Holy Cross Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Moretus, Jan, 1543 - 1610 printer.
Added entry--name
Moretus, Balthasar, 1615 - 1674 printer.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Galle, Cornelis, 1576 - 1650 engraver.
Added entry--name
James, M.R. (Montague Rhodes), 1862 - 1936 former owner.
Added entry--name
Plantijnsche Drukkerij printer.
Added entry--place
Belgium Antwerp.
Language code
lat ita
Identifier
B32165