(Q28642)
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Iconography of fifty hand colored full-figure drawings of male and female members of religious orders in their habits
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Church vestments--Catholic Church
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Monasticism and religious orders
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Manuscripts, French--Belgium
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Manuscripts, French--Michigan--Kalamazoo
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between 1700-1799
18. century
1700
1799
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Extent: 50 leaves : paper, ill. ; 117 x 92 mm
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Ms. codex.
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This iconography of the Roman Catholic Church presenting the traditional garbs of eight ecclesiastic posts and thirty-three monastic orders (ten with both female and male members).
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Binding: Contemporary gilt-ruled calf, worn and repaired with spine gilt on all edges.
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Decoration: Fifty hand-colored full-figure drawings of male and female members of religious orders in their habits. Drawings on rectos only. Each image is captioned with the name of the order in a banderole in French.
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Based on evidence in the text, the iconography includes a monk from Tongerlo Abby near Antwerp, another from Ansewyck near Mechelen, which suggests Belgium as the place of composition. An earlier owner, Cornelia Alstede of Amsterdam, signed her name and address (in Dutch) on the verso of the front free flyleaf and indexed the whole (in French) on the recto and verso of the first leaf. A later...
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2 February 2024
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2 February 2024
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