Catalogue of the Plantin-Moretus Museum

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1894. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... 35. Frontispiece of Frederici de Marselaer Legatus, engraved by Corn. Galle after Theodore Van Loon. (Plantin, 1626, in-4>). 36. The Infante-Cardinal offering his sword to the Virgin. Plate engraved by Corn. Galle for: Barth. de los Rios, de Hierarchia Mariana (Plantin, 1641, in-fol.), after the picture painted for the high altar of the church of the village of Calloo by Ant. Wery. 37. Frontispiece of Philomathi Musce juveniles (Plantin, 1654, in-4 ), engraved by Corn. Galle, junior. 38. Portrait of J.-B. Houwaert, by John Wiericx. 39. Plates of a Service of the Virgin, in-12, designed and engraved by John Wiericx. 40. Portrait of Cardinal Bellarmin, engraved by Ch. De Mallery, for the work: Jac. Fuligatto, Vita Roberti Bellarmini (Plantin, 1631, in-8 ). 41. Portrait of Philip Neri, engraved for Gabriel Palceoti de Bono Senectulis (Plantin, 1598, in-4 ). 42. Plates of an edition in-16 of the Hours, designed by Mart. De Vos, engraved by Crispin Van Den Passe, in 1588. The drawings of these engravings are seen in room II, under N 17. 43. Plates of: Silvestri a Petra Sancta, Symbolaheroica (Plantin, 1634, in-4 ). From the 13th December 1633 to the 23 DEGREES of June 1634, Balth. Moretuspaid 268 fl.l s. to Andrew Pauwelsfor the improvement - of the figures of the R. B. Silvester a Petra Sancta. This indication, added to those which we find in the accounts of the Plantinian house for other books, leads us to believe that the Jesuit fathers had the plates, destined for works of the members of the company, engraved by artists whom they paid regular wages, and that these plates were afterwards touched up by more skilled engravers. 44. Portraits of Foresters and Counts of Flanders, employed in the work: les Genealogies ...