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Johann Philipp Nerius Maria Vogel

Collection des pierres antiques dont la chasse des SS. Trois Rois Mages is enriched in the metropolitan Eglise in Cologne. Description V [ogel], J. P. N. M .: Collection des pierres antiques dont la chasse des SS. Trois Rois Mages is enriched in the metropolitan Eglise in Cologne, 1781

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[Bonn, Imprimerie Electorale de la Cour., 1781.]. In 2nd. Frontispiece drawn and engraved in copper by C. Dupuis, with numerous coats of arms, 12 full-page plates of which 4 folded, original binding in half brown calfskin, in the center the tyrol embossed in gold of the front plate leather plate with dry decoration and in the center the title imprinted in gold, slight defects.

Specialist Notes

The work describes describes the great reliquary kept in the Cologne Cathedral, known as the Sanctuary of the 3 Kings, built at the end of the 12th century and attributed to Nicolas of Verdun.