Breviarium eqvestre, seu, De illustrissimo & inclytissimo eqvestri ordine elephantino :
ejusq[ue] origine, progressu, ac splendore hodierno tractatus /
collectus ex antiqvis diplomatibus, bullis, numismatibus, insignibus, praecipuè autem ex posthumo & manuscripto Ivari Hertzholmii codice, in epitomen redacto, variísq[ue] additamentis ac observationibus illustrato & continuato à Jano Bircherodio Jani fil.

Description

Main Author

Hertzholm, Ivar, 1635-1693.

Related Names

Chomont Boudan, Louis de.
Schaten, Hubert.
Friedlein, Johann.
Bircherod, Jens, 1664-1720.

Language(s)

Latin

Published

Hauniae : Ex reg. Majest. & Universit. typographéo, anno 1704.

Subjects

Order of the Elephant > Order of the Elephant / Early works to 1800.
Knights and knighthood > Knights and knighthood / Denmark > Knights and knighthood / Denmark / Early works to 1800.
Elephants in heraldry > Elephants in heraldry / Early works to 1800.
Engravings > Engravings / Denmark > Engravings / Denmark / 18th century.

Note

Includes 14 full-page copper engravings mostly by Johann Friedlein. Plate no. 3 is engraved by Louis de Chomond Boudan, plate no. 9 by Hubert Schaten.
Engraved title vignette; engraved head-piece; woodcut initials.
Final page blank.
Errata: p. [1] at end.
Signatures: pi1 2pi² A-U² V² X-2B² 2C1.

Physical Description

[6], 104, [2] p., XIV leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill., coats of arms, ports. ; 36 cm. (fol.)

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