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Seal-matrix for Adolf von Epstein, Archdeacon of Trier; bronze; circular.
Obverse: Female figure standing, facing, wearing a long dress and her hands above her head grasping a cross-bar resting on side posts. On either side an executioner seizing…

Sixteen female saints; half-length figures with their respective attributes, arranged in four rows.
Woodcut
Height: Height: 216 millimetres
Width: Width: 166 millimetres
Inscription content: Lettered with the names of the individual saints on…

Four oval scenes, each related to religious events or saints celebrated in February; from left to right and top to bottom, a soldier shearing the breast of a young female saint tied to a pillar (St Agatha's Day); a man armed with a brand and burning…

Six female saints; St Mary Magdalene, St Rosalia, St Apollonia, St Agnes, St Dorothy, St Agatha; six roundels aligned in three rows; sheet four of the series; second state
Engraving
Diameter: Diameter: 43 millimetres (c., each roundel) (c., each…

Plate 18: Martyrdom scenes with St Agatha being tied to a pillar in foreground, her sheared breasts lying in front of her, the Popes Fabian and Cornelius being beheaded in left background, St Tryphon hung from a tree and beaten in left background,…

Church martyrs, with in the foreground St Agatha, tied to a stake and having her breasts cut by an executioner; beyond, at right, St Tryphon, hanging upside down from a tree, and Sts Fabian and Cornelius being beheaded; at left, St Abdon and Sennen…

St Agatha; kneeling to left in front of a prison, with one severed breast, praying to a vision of St Peter standing blessing her; behind to left she is roasted alive on hot coals; within an oval frame and with a vertical panel of ornamental…

Madonna and Child with saints, with the Virgin sitting on an elevated throne with Christ child on her lap; below, at right, St Barbara and a monk, and at left a female saint (St Agatha?) with a dish resting on the pedestal, St Lawrence with his…

205 unnumbered leaves (last 2 blank) ; (8vo 17 cm)

This volume contains 202 wood engravings without text, the majority from the 'Dix livres de chirurgie' published in Paris, 1564: they have been carefully painted by hand in gold, silver, and…