MARBL has just acquired a personalized Jesuit prayer book in manuscript incorporating devotional prints: [JESUIT MANUSCRIPT PRAYER BOOK]. Libellus Piarum Precum... [Trier?], colophon: 1575.
“What's interesting about this 'Trier' manuscript”, comments Professor Walter Melion, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History, “is that the illustrations--woodblocks and engravings--are printed on the same paper as the manuscript, which indicates that they were produced for insertion into this codex.
The prayer book includes 5 full-page hand-colored woodcuts, 11 engravings with touches of hand-color, and numerous hand-drawn colored Jesuit monograms.
