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Nette afbeeldingen der eyge dragten van alle geestelyke orders : nevens een korte aantekening van haar begin, instelders, en bevestiging

Schoonebeek, Adriaan, 1657 or 8-1705 · 1688 · Tot Amsterdam : By den auteur ... · 78 pictures

This Dutch book from 1688, published in Amsterdam by Adriaan Schoonebeek, catalogues the habits of religious orders for a readership interested in monastic dress. The four engraved figures show monks and clergy in full-length robes, cloaks, hoods and tonsures, each standing in a plain landscape or beside a classical column, with a designer able to draw on their drapery folds, cowls and stance.

Monasticism and religious orders

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