Cum Privilegio Cæsareo & Saxonico. Ienæ: Typis Tobiæ Steinmanni: Impensis Henningi Grosii civis & Bibliopolæ Lipsensis,, Anno M. D. XCVII.
Physical Description
[48] p.: illus.; 305 mm. (Signatures: A-D6).
Contents
[T.p., dedic.] - Paulus Iovius lib. 5. Elogiorum; Index Iconum Ducum Saxoniæ - [Text and illus.]
Responsibility Note
Two cuts are signed by 'C K' (i.e. Cornelis Ketel?).
The work is dedicated by Nic. Reusnerus to 'Friderico Guilielmo Proelectori' [i.e. Duke Frederick Wilhelm I of Saxe-Weimar, who was regent of Saxony 1591-1601, until Elector Christian II came of age] and to several other princes.
Summary Note
The work consists of large cuts accompanied by Latin verse descriptions - thirty-eight cuts showing portraits of rulers of Saxony, two showing frames with blanks instead of portraits, and one showing a coat of arms.
Provenance
[Second copy:] The title-page is inscribed in ink, 'Caspar a Metzerad [?] 1610'.
Copy Note
[First copy:] A rear endpaper is inscribed in ink with a note about Reusner, and a note stating that 'CK = Cornel. Kettel according to Papillon - See his Treatise p.271.'
Binding Note
[First copy:] 20th-century mottled calf, upper and lower covers decorated in blind; spine lettered 'Icones Imagine Impp Saxoni'.
[Second copy:] 19th-century half brown morocco, brown marbled-papered boards; spine lettered 'Reusner Imagines Sax.' and 'Ienæ 1597'.
Subject
Rulers - Monarchs - Celebrities - Germany - Saxony - History
Portraits - Drawings - Germany - 16th century
Biography - Germany - 16th century
Pictorial works - Woodcuts - Germany - 16th century