BROELMANN, Stephan.

by Stephan Broelmann

£12,500 · Offered by Sokol Books

.Stunning presentation copy to Cardinal Scipione Borghese, with handsome colouring, of the first .edition of this this beautifully illustrated work on the history of Cologne by Broelmann. This unique .volume includes an additional fold-out map of the city accompanied by a manuscript description .written by the author himself and signed with his initials. .Stephan Broelmann (1551-1622) was a jurist and professor of Law at the University of Cologne, born .to a wealthy and well-connected patrician family. Extremely fond of history and archaeology, he was .also a remarkable researcher and an active collector of Roman antiquities. For several years, .alongside his activity as a lawyer, Broelmann worked on an ambitious four-volume work on the .history of Cologne which remains incomplete in manuscript form. Only a small part of it was .published in this lavishly illustrated edition, in two parts, titled Epideigma ( presentation ). . Epideigma is an extraordinary document, a history of Rhineland and in particularly of the city of .Cologne in Roman times (until AD 475). Broelmann based his treatise on archaeological and written .sources, as well as on two manuscripts in his possession: the accounts written by a monk of the .Eberbach monastery and a codex of the Annales Colonienses maximi , known as Chronicle of .Gotfried von St. Pantaleon . .The most attractive feature of this volume is the fourteen magnificent engravings, designed by the .author and realised by two of the most promin

• Binding: Hardcover

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