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Inscription

Lettered along the bottom margin: "Opus hoc antiquum sculp. reperitur Ravennae in aed. divi Vitalis M D X VIIII"

Provenance

Weingarten Monastery, Swabia, 1632 (title page inscription in the NGA "Speculum"). Cistercian Abbey of Notre-Dame du Val-Dieu, Belgium (bookplate: Ex libris Vallis Dei). English export license recording the sale of this volume in 1974 by E.P. Goldschmidt & Co., Ltd., London; Daniel Donahue, Santa Barbara, CA; (Liber Antiquus, Washington, D.C.); purchased 2012 by NGA.

Associated Names

Dowling, Paul M.

Bibliography

1802
Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: XIV.195.242 (copy)
1921
Huelsen, Christian. "Das Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae des Antonio Lafreri." Collectanea variae doctrinae Leoni Olschki. Munich, 1921: no. 73.
2016
Rubach, Birte. Ant. Lafreri Formis Romae: Der Verleger Antonio Lafreri und seine Druckgraphikproduktion. Berlin, 2016.

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