Beschreibung:

WITTE Lieven de illustrator. -- BIBLE, New Testament, Harmonies, in Latin. Iesu Christi vita, iuxta quator evangelistarum enarrationes, artificio graphics perquam eleganter picta, una cumtotius anni avangeliis ac epistolis . Antwerp: Matthieu Crom, 1541.
WITTE Lieven de, illustrator. -- BIBLE, New Testament, Harmonies, in Latin. Iesu Christi vita, iuxta quator evangelistarum enarrationes, artificio graphics perquam eleganter picta, una cumtotius anni avangeliis ac epistolis . Antwerp: Matthieu Crom, 1541. 8 o (152 x 95 mm). Historiated woodcut title border depicting Moses with the Tables of the Law and the Descent of the Holy Ghost, full-page woodcut border with the instruments of the passion and the flagellation for the beginning of "La Passion" on P8v, 182 woodcuts in text, 2 full-page [the Lineage of Christ, according to Matt. 1:1-16 and the Descent of the Holy Ghost, Acts 2:1-13], and numerous small vignettes and tailpieces, designed and perhaps also cut by Lieven de Witte Later purple velvet, ivory figure of a monk mounted at center of front cover, ivory cornerpieces, catch and clasp. Provenance : early effaced inscription on flyleaf; Clermontois, bibliothequè (early inscription on title); J.W. Six (bookplate); purchased from Emil Offenbacher, 24 June 1960. CONTAINING A FINE SERIES OF WOODCUTS BY LIEVEN DE WITTE Some sources identify Guilielmus de Branteghem as the harmonizer and several editions, both in Latin and vernacular languages, were published after 1537. Adams B-1825 (incomplete); BM/STC Dutch p.32; Hollstein 53, p. 231-280; I. Veldman & K. van Schaik, Verbeelde boodschap. De illustraties van Lieven de Witte bij 'Dat leven ons Heeren' (1537) (1989), esp. p. 17-21.