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Hochschätzbarer Seelen Ehren Thron
by Faber, Fortunatus
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About This Item
Munich: Michael Wening, 1683. Gilt red morocco (c. 1780) decorated with a frame of rules, waves, foliage, braziers, olive branches and cenotaphs, initials M.A.W. on the front panel and X.A.E. on the rear, flat spine with waves and rules, green paper endleaves, all edges gilt; in a contemporary mottled calf pull-off case gilt with the same rule, wave and brazier tools; the box lid lined with floral decorated paper, the sleeve covered in green paper.
Only Edition of a particularly fine South German picture devotional in four parts. The preliminaries include the title, dedication, dedicatee's portrait, a prayer and illustrations of Risen Christ and the Last Supper.
Thirty-five numbered double-page openings constitute the next section. The versos show a priest and attendants in song or prayer as they perform the mass. The rectos have a saint on the left and on the right of three prayers. One addresses each saint, and one corresponds to the stage of the mass on the facing verso. The first twenty-five openings present fifty male saints. Twenty female saints illustrate the next ten openings.
Portraits of Jesus and Mary begin a collection of various prayers initially flanked by female saints then enclosed by scenes from the Old and New Testament. The final leaves celebrate the defeat of the Ottoman forces at the gates of Vienna in September 1683.
Artist, publisher and court engraver to the Prince-Elector of Bavaria, Wening here adapted Mazot's 1651 Tableau de la Croix to local sensibilities, eliminating the Latin text and inserting contemporary events into the frames. An excellent copy, seven-line presentation inscription from Xavier Aloys Embacher to Mariane Wirnhardin penned at the time of the present binding.
¶Praz, Studies in 17th-Century Imagery I: 338 (33 leaves only); Stetter, Michael Wening: Leben und Werk 42-3 & 76; VD17 23:238964Z (4 copies).
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- Bookseller
- Bruce McKittrick Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10202
- Title
- Hochschätzbarer Seelen Ehren Thron
- Author
- Faber, Fortunatus
- Format/Binding
- Gilt red morocco (c. 1780) decorated with a frame of rules, waves, foliage, braziers, olive branches and cenotaphs, initials M.A
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Michael Wening
- Place of Publication
- Munich
- Date Published
- 1683
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- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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