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Lot n° 1331
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Dissertatio et animadversiones ad nuper inventum Severae Martyris epitaphium.

Estimation : 400 / 600
Adjudication : Invendu
Description
1st ed. of this important early work on Christian archaeology, esp. on the Catacombs, by the Italian Jesuit scholar Lupi (1695-1737). Ill. with 20 engravings (9 full-page, 6 folding, 5 in text) and numerous woodcut reproductions of inscriptions throughout, etc., mostly in Latin and Greek. They had been found several years previously in a cemetery near Rome. Lupi demonstrates from the evidence that the female Christian martyr Severa had been buried there. Engr. arms on title.
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