Descriptive Information

Title

Descrizione del sacro monte della Vernia.

Call Number

E-000010

Identifier

ark:/88435/dc8p58pq912

Publisher

[Florence] : [publisher not identified], [1612]

Language

Italian

Date Created

1612

Extent

[2], A-Y leaves, [1], A-Y leaves of plates (2 folded) : illustrations ; 45 cm (fol.)

Provenance

GAX copy: Front free endpaper is embossed: Giannalisa Feltrinelli, ex libris.

References

Brunet, III, col. 1914

Cicognara, L. Libri d'arte e d'antichità, 2020

BL 17th cent. Italian books, p. 596

Rights Statement

Copyright Not Evaluated

Notes

Issued without t.p; title from dedication (leaf [1]), which reads: Illmo. et reuerendissmo. patron mio colendissmo. monsignor arciuescouo di Monreale e generale de' Minori osservanti, frate Arcangelo da Messina s. Dismettendo ogni cerimonia ... vengo à dedicarli quest'opera della descrizione del sacro monte della Vernia ... il disegnatore è stato ... sig. Iacopo Ligozio ... Di Fiorenza il dì primo di giugno 1612 ... Fra Lino Moroni di Firenze.

Leaves of text (descriptive letterpress keyed to the plates)--printed on one side only, within type flower borders.

Illustrations: 23 prints from 26 plates : engraving (11), etching and engraving (12) ; full-page (21), image 77 x 41 cm. (1), image 50 x 41 cm. (1). All after Ligozzi. Comprise frontispiece (St. Francis with armorial devices, trophies and emblems of spiritual and temporal power) by Domenico Falcini and 22 views of sites on Mount Verna associated with St. Francis; 7 are signed with monogram RS (Raffaello Schiaminossi), the others being ascribed to Falcini. The Schiaminossi plates are etchings retouched with burin; the Falcini plates are engravings and etchings with engraving. The 2 large views are composed of prints on 3 and 2 conjoined sheets, respectively. There are engraved overlays on plates F, G, I, O and R (with 2). For detailed description, reproduction of plates and transcription of letterpress, cf. Jacopo Ligozzi : le vedute del sacro monte della Verna, i dipinti di Poppi e Bibbiena / a cura di Lucilla Conigliello. 1992. no. 10-32, figs. x-xxxii. For Schiaminossi plates, cf. also: Italian etchers of the Renaissance & baroque / Sue Welsh Reed, Richard Wallace. c1989. no. 109. Illustrated Bartsch, v. 38, p. 152-158, figs. 131-136.

Two ornamental initials (leaves [1-2]).

GAX copy: Purchased with funds provided by the Friends of the Princeton University Library.

Binding Note

GAX copy: In contemporary limp vellum.

Discovery Information

Subject

Verna, Mount (Italy)—Description and travel—Early works to 1800

Verna, Mount (Italy) in art—Early works to 1800

Verna (Monastery)—Early works to 1800

Verna (Monastery) in art—Early works to 1800

Francis of Assisi, Saint 1182-1226

Physical Characteristics

File Count

1

Institutional Information

Collection

Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection

Holding location

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IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/c92c1934-f10c-44ce-98cc-2a73d50b2448/manifest

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