O principe dos patriarcas S. Bento : primeiro[-segundo] tomo de sua vida

Prazeres, João dos, 1648-1709, Billingue, Clemente, engraver, Gomes, Francisco, b. 1660?, engraver, Duarte, C., 17th cent., engraver, Barros, Manuel Leal de, 1622-1691. Crisol purificativo · 1683 · Em Lxa. [i.e. Lisbon] : Na impressas de Antonio Craesbeeck de Mello, impressor da Caza Reale e a sua custa · 64 pictures

A two-volume Portuguese life of St Benedict written by the Benedictine João dos Prazeres and printed in Lisbon in 1683 by António Craesbeeck de Mello, for a devotional and monastic readership. Engravers Billingue, Gomes and Duarte supplied emblem plates: Latin mottoes on banderoles inside strapwork cartouches framing small landscapes with trees, birds and towns, plus woodcut headpieces with figures and fruit.

Benedict, Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino · Benedictines · Emblems

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