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Ordinum Religiosorum in Ecclesia Militanti Catalogus, Eorumque indumenta in Iconibus expressa, & oblata Clementi XI. Pont. Max. Pars Prima [-Tertia]

3 volumes in 4to. pp. (38), (564) including 141 engraved plates, (4); pp. (16), (432) including 108 plates, (4); pp. (16), (288) including 75 plates, (2). Bound in contemporary sheep with gilt ornaments and titles on spines. With parallel Latin/Italian title pages and parallel text throughout, text on recto of leaves only. With woodcut title vignette, initials and tailpieces. Includes index. Scarce first edition. Vol. I (141 plates): Degli Huomini Religiosi; Vol. II (108 plates): Delle Vergini à Dio dedicate; Vol. III (75 plates): “in cui si riferiscono alcuni di essi tralasciati nella prima edizione, diversi Collegii di Alunni, e Congregazioni di Fanciulle”. Containing a total of 141 plates of the female monastic orders (108 in Vol. II, 33 in Vol. III). Vol. III states that the plates were engraved by Arnold van Westerhout (1651-1725) from the designs of the painter Andrea Orazi (1670-1749). Few recognize that the most extensive “Costume Book” of the Early Modern Period focusing women was in no way dedicated to the latest secular fashions of courtly dress and high-society hairstyles; rather, Bonanni’s masterpiece preserves, more than any other historical source, the formal habits

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