Vita beati P. Ignatii Loiolae, Societatis Iesu fundatoris

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Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640
Barbé, Jean Baptiste, 1578-1649
Łęczycki, Mikołaj, 1574-1652
Pázmány, Péter, 1570-1637
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An emblematic life of St. Ignatius of Loyola. Consists of 81 copperplate engravings (including title page and frontispiece) attributed either to Jean Baptiste Barbé or Cornelis Galle, the elder, after Peter Paul Rubens. Commissioned by the Society of Jesus in 1605/1606 and first issued in 1609. The present edition apparently printed from the same plates except for changed t.p. date, a new official portrait of the saint, and added plate no. 80 depicting Ignatius’s canonization in 1622. Engraved t.p. is followed by plates 1-80; each engraved plate includes a descriptive caption in Latin with sequential numbering, attributed to Nicolaus Lancicius (i.e. Mikołaj Łęczycki) and Cardinal Peter Pázmány.
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Consists of 81 copper engravings (including title page and frontispiece) attributed either to Jean Baptiste Barbé or Cornelis Galle, the elder, from Peter Paul Rubens artwork. Commissioned by the Society of Jesus in 1605/1606 and first issued in 1609. The present edition apparently printed from the same plates except for changed t.p. date, a new official portrait of the saint, and added plate no. 80 which depicts Loyola's canonization in 1622. Cf. Diccionario histórico de la Compañia de Jesus, v. 4, p. 3428; Dictionary of art, v. 12, p. 16 (under Cornelis Galle); and facsim. ed. with title Vida de San Ignacio de Loyola en imágenes of the 1609 issue, with introd. study by Antonio M. Navas Gutiérrez (Granada, 1992/3).
 
Engraved t.p. is followed by plates 1-80; each engraved plate includes a descriptive caption in Latin with sequential numbering, attributed to Nicolaus Lancicius (i.e. Mikołaj Łęczycki) and Cardinal Peter Pázmány Cf. modern edition: Vida de San Ignacio de Loyola en imágenes (Ediciones Mensajero, Bilbao, [1995])
 
Original binding: Bound in dark brown smooth calf (rebacked); lettering on spine in gilt against red leather background
 
Conserved binding: Bound in dark brown leather with blind tooling on upper and lower covers
 
From the library of Archbishop John Carroll. Bound with: De vita et morib. Ignatii Loiolae / auctore Ioanne Petro Maffeio. Romae: Apud Franciscum Zannettum, 1585. The volume has been conserved and digitized. Rebound in blind-tooled dark brown goatskin. Earlier binding of dark brown diapered calf preserved in clamshell with the book.
 
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1622
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Volume two of two in Ignatii Loiolae Vitae. Access De vita et morib. Ignatii Loiolae: qui Societatem Iesu fundavit: libri III at http://hdl.handle.net/10822/707795
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