Item #51-3518 DOMINICA IIII. POST PENTECOSTEN De copiosa captura piscium. [4TH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST] The abundant capture of fish]. Original printing. Joan Johannes Wierix or Jan Wierix Wierix, 1549 – ca. 1620.

DOMINICA IIII. POST PENTECOSTEN De copiosa captura piscium. [4TH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST] The abundant capture of fish]. Original printing.

Antwerp: Martinus Nutius, 1594; second edition, 1595. Engraving.. 18 x 14 cm. Partially handcolored. One of 17 Engravings out of the Evangelica Historias Inagiica.
An engraving from Jerome Nadal's (1507-1580) Adnotationes et Meditationes in Evangelia [Notes and Meditations on the Gospels];

Bibliography:

Nadal, Jerome. Adnotationes et Meditationes in Evangelia: Quae in sacrosancto missae sacrificio toto anno leguntur, cum evangeliorum concordantia, historiae integritati sufficienti. Antwerp: Martinus Nutius, 1594; second edition 1595

Jerome Nadal (1507-1580), a Spaniard from Majorca, was one of the first ten members of the Society of Jesus (a.k.a. the Jesuits). For many years he served as the personal representative or "delegate" of the founder, St. Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556), in visiting Jesuit houses throughout Europe, especially to explain and implement the Constitutions of the Society of Jesus.

Ignatius himself urged Nadal to compile and distribute an illustrated guide for prayerful meditation on the Gospels, in the tradition of the Spiritual Exercises, although the work was not completed until after both men had died. Nadal selected the biblical scenes to be included, commissioned and directed the layout of the illustrations, and composed notes to accompany each scene. With the cooperation and support of Antwerp publishers Christophe Plantin and Martinus Nutius, 153 engravings were eventually produced by Bernardino Passeri, Marten de Vos, and Jerome and Anton Wierix.

In 1593 these illustrations were published in a volume entitled Evangelicae Historiae Imagines ("Illustrations of the Gospel Stories"), arranged in chronological order of the life and ministry of Jesus. In 1594 and 1595 they were again published in larger volumes, entitled Adnotationes et Meditationes in Evangelia ("Notes and Meditations on the Gospels"), with more extensive accompanying text, and rearranged according to the order of readings used in the liturgical year, as prescribed in the Roman Missa. Item #51-3518

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