Details

Subject(s)

• Sepulchral monuments, Medieval [Browse]
• Sepulchral monuments, Renaissance—Italy [Browse]
• Authors—Italy—Monuments [Browse]
• Authors, Classical—Monuments [Browse]
• Inscriptions, Latin—16th century [Browse]
• Inscriptions, Latin—17th century [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Epitaphs [Browse]
• Scrapbooks [Browse]

Compiled/​Created

[1560s]-[1600s].

Summary note

• Album of 115 foliated leaves, with each recto having a mounted engraving of a sepulchral monument of a famous man. The engravings are from the following work: Marus Zuerius Boxhorn, Monumenta illustrium virorum, Et elogia. Cura ac studio Marci Zuerii Boxhornii.. Amstelodami, 1638.
• At front is mss. alphabetical index to entries by last name. The compiler of the album is not known, but added manuscript text is in Latin and Dutch, suggesting origin in the Low Countries.
• Mounted on leaf 35 verso, is a engraved portrait of Cicero, signed 'P[ieter] Bodart', a Dutch printmaker active 1706-1712, suggesting that the album was compiled no earlier than the eighteenth century.
• The embossed seal of the 'College of New Jersey' on the first leaf and other markings indicated that the album was acquired by Princeton in the 1880s-1890s. It was catalogued ca. 1900-1920 with the supplied title 'Inscriptions (chiefly Latin) from tomb and monuments'.

Notes

Supplied title.

Source acquisition

Acc. no. AM 2005-99.

Other title(s)

Monumenta illustrium virorum, et elogia. Cura ac studio Marci Zuerii Boxhornii.

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