Montis Domini totiusq. Sacri Templi exemplum ex antiquis descriptionibus a bened. Aria Montano observatis, ad apparatus sacri instructionem. 1578Antwerp,Chr. Plantin,copper ill. broadside, 37,5 x 54 cm, engraving 37,5 x 47,5 cm with to the left a...
Estimation :
1500 / 2500
Adjudication :
7500 €
Description
printed text 37,5 x 6,5 cm, b/w (sl. frayed & soiled edges, sm. marg tears rep., splitt. c'fold well rep.). Good copy.
Extr. rare, apparently not present in Belgium, copper engraving showing in detail the Temple at Jerusalem "according to old descriptions by Arias Montanus". The mention "Ad apparatus sacri instructionem" seems to imply that the broadside was primarily intended to give supplementary (visual) information to the description (and the accompanying illustrations) as given in the "Apparatus" of the Polyglot Bible (more esp. vol. 8) (Voet). The printed text gives the key to the engraving with underneath : "Antverpiae, excudebat Christophorus Plantinus, M.D.LXXVIII". Later on, the ill. (without the printed explanation) has been reproduced as hors-texte in Montanus' "Antiquitatum Iudaicarum libri IX", Leiden, Officina Plantiniana apud Fr. Raphelengium, 1593.
Extr. rare, apparently not present in Belgium, copper engraving showing in detail the Temple at Jerusalem "according to old descriptions by Arias Montanus". The mention "Ad apparatus sacri instructionem" seems to imply that the broadside was primarily intended to give supplementary (visual) information to the description (and the accompanying illustrations) as given in the "Apparatus" of the Polyglot Bible (more esp. vol. 8) (Voet). The printed text gives the key to the engraving with underneath : "Antverpiae, excudebat Christophorus Plantinus, M.D.LXXVIII". Later on, the ill. (without the printed explanation) has been reproduced as hors-texte in Montanus' "Antiquitatum Iudaicarum libri IX", Leiden, Officina Plantiniana apud Fr. Raphelengium, 1593.
