Gynæceum, Sive Theatrum Muliebrum, In Quo Praecipuarum Omnium Per Europam In Primis, Nationum, Gentium, Populorumque, Cuisuscunque dignitatis, ordinis, status, conditionis, professionis, ætatis, fœmineos habitus videre est, Artificiosissimis Nunc Primum figuris, neq; usquam antehæc pari elegantia editis, expressos à Iodoco Amano. Additis Ad Singulas Figuras Singulis octostichis Francisci Modii Brug. Opus Cum Ad Foeminei Sexus Commendationem, tum in illorum maximè gratiam adornatum, qui à longinquis peregrinationibus institutæ vitæ ratione, aut certis aliis de causis exclusi, domi interim variorum populorum habitu, qui est morum indicium tacitum, delectantur.
The work is dedicated by Sigismundus Feyrabendius to Isabella of Austria, Queen of France.
References
I. O'Dell, Jost Ammans Buchschmuck-Holzschnitte für Sigmund Feyerabend (1993); J.S. Peters, Jost Amman (2 v., 1985) (= vol. 20 (IX:1-2) of The Illustrated Bartsch, ed. W. L. Strauss), p.635-667.
Summary Note
This work was also published in the same year in German.
Reproductions
A facsimile was published in 1872 (Manchester: Holbein Society).
Provenance
The verso of the front loose endpaper is inscribed in pencil, 'S.A.H.', i.e. S.A. Hart, librarian of the Royal Academy 1864-81.
Binding Note
18th-century mottled calf; rebacked in 1989 by A. Wessely, green morocco spine-labels lettered 'Gynaeceum Sive Theatrum Mulierum Amman'.