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Vita D. Thomae Aquinatis (Life of St. Thomas Aquinas)

After: Otto van Veen (Flemish, 1556–1629)
Engraver: Cornelis Boel I (Netherlandish, about 1576–after 1613)
Engraver: Egbert van Panderen (Dutch, 1581–1637?)
Engraver: Willem Swanenburg (Netherlandish, 1581–1612)
Engraver: Cornelis Galle, Jr. (Netherlandish, 1615–1678)
Publisher: Otto van Veen (Flemish, 1556–1629)
1610
Place of Publication: Antwerp, Belgium

Medium/Technique Set of engraved title page and 30 engravings
Dimensions Overall: 26.4 x 20.3 x 2 cm (10 3/8 x 8 x 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William A. Sargent Fund
Accession Number65.575
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Antwerp: Otto van Veen, 1610

Catalogue Raisonné Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish, III, p. 7, nos. 10-22; VII, p. 65, nos. 48-49; XV, p. 99, no. 45; XXIX, p. 46, nos. 101-02
Description(Antwerp: Otto van Veen, 1610) Quarto; 31 leaves; contemporary blind-stamped vellum.

Portrait of St. Thomas Aquinas, scenes from his life.
ProvenanceMartin Breslauer, London; 1965, sold by Martin Breslauer to the MFA for $112. (Accession Date: May 12, 1965)