Live auction - Lot 1383
[Antwerp - Miniature book]
S. Jans evangelie met de 7. Woorden, een schoon Benedictie ende 5 dank-seggingen.
Antwerp, J.B. Carstiaenssens, [ca. 1800 ?]
€ 250 / 400
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Lot description
64mo (4 x 5 cm): [8] ff.
Decorative paper wr. Nice copy printed on coarse paper.
Very rare Antwerp ed. of a devotional miniature booklet with protective prayers for peasants, who wear it sometimes on their body as an amulet. One of several editions differing in typesetting and illustration. Ill. with 2 full-page woodcuts of an angel visiting a saint, and Saint James.
Ref. Anet. - Spielmann 462. - Not in Welsh, not in STCV.
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