Western Michigan University, WMU MS 164

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS6435

Shelfmark:

WMU MS 164

Title:

Iconography of fifty hand colored full-figure drawings of male and female members of religious orders in their habits

Place:

Belgium

Belgium TGN

Date:

between 1700-1799

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Text in French and Dutch

French WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 50 leaves : paper, ill. ; 117 x 92 mm

Note:

Ms. codex.
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).
Binding: Contemporary gilt-ruled calf, worn and repaired with spine gilt on all edges.
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.
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...

Keyword:

religious habits

Church vestments--Catholic Church

Clergy--Clothing

Monasticism and religious orders

Manuscripts, French

Institutional Record:

https://primo-pmtna01.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/4dvb3u/01WMU_ALMA21352736080002436

IIIF Manifest:

https://luna.library.wmich.edu/luna/servlet/iiif/m/WMUwmu~77~77~1222537~160274/manifest

Holding Institution:

Western Michigan University