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Canticum Canticorum Facsimile Edition

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The Canticum Canticorum is a Netherlandish block book produced around 1465 and devoted to a Christian interpretation of the biblical Song of Songs. Its sixteen paper leaves bear thirty-two woodcut scenes, printed with their Latin texts from eight carved blocks. The Bride and Bridegroom are presented through the medieval allegorical tradition of Mary, the Church, the soul, and Christ. This first-edition copy, formerly in the Franciscan monastery at Freising, is now preserved in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich.

We have 1 facsimile edition of the manuscript "Canticum Canticorum": Canticum Canticorum facsimile edition, published by N.V. Standaard Boekhandel, 1949

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Canticum Canticorum

Antwerp: N.V. Standaard Boekhandel, 1949

  • Commentary (Dutch) by Meertens, M.; Delen, A.J.J.
  • Limited Edition: 430 copies
  • This is a partial facsimile of the original document, Canticum Canticorum: the facsimile might represent only a part, or doesn't attempt to replicate the format, or doesn't imitate the look-and-feel of the original document.

130 copies were produced on Auvergne paper. Of these, only 20 were hand-colored in accordance with the original.

300 additional copies were produced on Van Gelder paper, all monochrome.

 

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