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OLEARIUS, Johannes. Christliche Bet-Schule auff Unterschiedliche Zeit, Personen, Verrichtungen. Nuremberg: W.E. Felssecker for G.H. Fromman, 1667.
Small 12° (114 x 57mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece, additional title and 16 plates. Contemporary German pink velvet, the covers with gold enamelled mounts, gilt edges gauffered with flowers (the nap of the velvet rubbed away, upper joint slightly split, occasional light damage to the enamel). Provenance: ?Moritz, Herzog von Sachsen-Zeitz (binding); Lopez Willshaw Collection (sale, Sotheby's 10 June 1974, lot 8).
Each cover with four gold corner mounts with naturalistic flowers, enamelled in translucent colours and four clasp ends pierced and enamelled in similar manner. The upper cover with central ornament of a crowned pierced monogram (I.M.H.S.Z) within a laurel wreath held by two hands descending from clouds, with the enamelled date 1658 beneath. The lower cover with a central ornament of a sunburst surrounded by blue clouds enclosing the Hebrew word Javeh. The two clasps chased with laurel foliage in gold and green; Dutch or German work, unmarked.
This prayer book presumably belonged to a Saxon Duke or Duchess: the monogram could also be interpreted as I(?) Herzog(in) zu Sachsen-Merseburg.
Small 12° (114 x 57mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece, additional title and 16 plates. Contemporary German pink velvet, the covers with gold enamelled mounts, gilt edges gauffered with flowers (the nap of the velvet rubbed away, upper joint slightly split, occasional light damage to the enamel). Provenance: ?Moritz, Herzog von Sachsen-Zeitz (binding); Lopez Willshaw Collection (sale, Sotheby's 10 June 1974, lot 8).
Each cover with four gold corner mounts with naturalistic flowers, enamelled in translucent colours and four clasp ends pierced and enamelled in similar manner. The upper cover with central ornament of a crowned pierced monogram (I.M.H.S.Z) within a laurel wreath held by two hands descending from clouds, with the enamelled date 1658 beneath. The lower cover with a central ornament of a sunburst surrounded by blue clouds enclosing the Hebrew word Javeh. The two clasps chased with laurel foliage in gold and green; Dutch or German work, unmarked.
This prayer book presumably belonged to a Saxon Duke or Duchess: the monogram could also be interpreted as I(?) Herzog(in) zu Sachsen-Merseburg.