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Cleri totius Romanae ecclesiae subiecti, seu, Pontificiorvm ordinvm omnivm omnino vtrivsqve sexvs, habitvs, artificiosissimis figuris, quibus Francisci Modii singula octosticha adiecta sunt, nunc primùm à Ivdoco Ammanno expressi: neqve vnquam antehac similiter editi. Addito libello singvlari eivsdem Francisci Modij Brug. in quo cuiusque ordinis ecclesiastici origo, progressus & vestitus ratio breuiter ex variis historicis delineatur

by: Modius, François, 1556-1597; Amman, Jost, 1539-1591

Publication date: 1585

Topics: Catholic Church, Church vestments, Monasticism and religious orders, Clergy

Publisher: Francoforti, Sumptib. Sigismundi Feyrabendij

Collection: getty; americana

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: Latin

Feyerabend published a German ed. in the same year with text by Johannes Adam Lonicer, entitled: Ständ und Orden der H. Römischen Catholischen Kirchen. See Lipperheidesche Kostümbibliothek

Colophon: Francoforti ad Moenvm, ex officina Martini Lechleri, impensis Sigismvndi Feyrabendij. M.D.LXXXV

The prose text by François Modius (b1r-e3r) has special t.-p

Woodcut t.-p. vignette of a pope, repeated on A4v as the first ill. Feyerabend's device (Fame) appears on colophons of both texts, repeated as t.-p. vignette for 2nd work (I. O'Dell, Jost Ammans Buchschmuck, f5). Tail-pieces. Foliated initials, one historiated

Dedication (A2r-A4r) by Modius to: Ioanni Christophoro Nevstettero, cognomento Stvrmero

Signatures: A B-Z, a-e (C-Z printed on rectos only)

Errata, E3v

Lipperheidesche Kostümbibliothek (2. Aufl.)

Binding: vellum. Spine lined with MS waste

Centered on front pastedown is Theodore Besterman's calligraphic label, signed in the plate by P.S