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Hippolyte Hélyot
[...] ausführliche Geschichte aller geistlichen und weltlichen Kloster- und Ritterorden für beyderley Geschlecht, in welcher deren Ursprung, Stiftung, Regeln, Anwachs, und merkwürdigste Begebenheiten [...] in vielen Kupfern nach dem Leben abgebildet werden [...]. Six [out of eight] vols. Leipzig, Arkstee and Merkus,
H 24,
The pages of this multi-volume work are populated by persons schematically positioned in a still or dynamically moving pose against a neutral background, attired in a wide variety of clothing of seemingly endless diversity. Each of them is representative, as an ideal, of an order whose origin, history and, if applicable, downfall are described in detail.
Hippolyte Helyot (1660 - 1716), a Franciscan born in Paris, was specialised as an ecclesiastical historian in the history of religious orders. His life's work, the fruit of decades of research and two journeys to Rome, was the encyclopaedic compilation of the history of the ecclesiastical and secular orders, which appeared in several volumes from 1714 and beyond his death, and was published in German from 1753. Numerous copper plates depict the different garments prescribed by the respective rules of the clerical orders of nuns and monks as well as of the secular communities, such as courtly orders of knighthood or orders of merit.
Provenance: Library of the last Prince-Bishop of Basel Franz Xaver von Neveu (1749 - 1828); after his death it became private property of the family of Neveu, Durbach.
Literature: VD18 80353169-001; VD18 80353177-001; VD18 80353185-001; VD18 80353215-001; VD18 80353223-001; VD18 80353231-001 (only at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek).
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