Author: Series Abbatum Mellicensium Honori Reveredissimi.
Title: Series Abbatum Mellicensium
Description: 1701. SERIES ABBATUM MELLICENSIUM Honori Reverendissimi ac Amplicissimi Sui Praesulis Bertholdi etc. (Gallery of the Abbots of Melk, prepared by the Prior and Monks of Melk, and dedicated to the Most Reverend and Eminent Abbot Bertholdus on the day of his Consecration). Vienna, Johann Georg Schlegel, University Press, (c1701). Octavo. (58)ff. Early marbled wrappers with spine titling in ink. Engraved title page by Caspar Luyken, depicting cluster of angels in the sky over Melk, which stood on a bluff over the Danube. 53 engraved oval portraits of Abbots, starting in 1089, with Latin text recounting their virtues and accomplishments. The last, and finest, portrait shows Bertold himself, giving the date of his consecration as June 29, 1701. Extremities rubbed, and later paper label on front, else fine. Not in OCLC. .
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Title: Series Abbatum Mellicensium
Description: 1701. SERIES ABBATUM MELLICENSIUM Honori Reverendissimi ac Amplicissimi Sui Praesulis Bertholdi etc. (Gallery of the Abbots of Melk, prepared by the Prior and Monks of Melk, and dedicated to the Most Reverend and Eminent Abbot Bertholdus on the day of his Consecration). Vienna, Johann Georg Schlegel, University Press, (c1701). Octavo. (58)ff. Early marbled wrappers with spine titling in ink. Engraved title page by Caspar Luyken, depicting cluster of angels in the sky over Melk, which stood on a bluff over the Danube. 53 engraved oval portraits of Abbots, starting in 1089, with Latin text recounting their virtues and accomplishments. The last, and finest, portrait shows Bertold himself, giving the date of his consecration as June 29, 1701. Extremities rubbed, and later paper label on front, else fine. Not in OCLC. .
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Price: US$ 750.00 Seller: Boston Book Company
- Book number: 70778
- Book number: 70778