Frontispiece from Turris Babel, sive Archontologia

Frontispiece from Turris Babel, sive Archontologia

RP-P-OB-23.760

collector's mark: Lugt 240

A frontispiece or engraved title page usually contains a blank space for the title of the book. In this design, the title field, reserved in the standard, is fairly small. The author of this book Athanasius Kircher, a German monk, tried to reconstruct the facts regarding the Tower of Babel and gain an understanding the universal language that must have once existed.

• print maker: Jan van Munnickhuysen (mentioned on object)
• after drawing by: after drawing of Gerard de Lairesse (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge (II) (mentioned on object), Amsterdam

1679

gravure

height 321 mm x width 217 mm

Titelpagina voor: Kircher, Athanasius. Turris Babel, sive Archontologia. Amsterdam: Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge (II) en Gillis Janssonius van Waesberge, 1679.

Public domain

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