Klemens Chodykiewicz. The Threefold Glory of the Divine Persons, Briefly Revealed to St. Benedict, Born of the Imperial Families of the Annuncii and Claudius, Abbot and Patriarch, in the Three Wondrous Attributes of a Sphere, Encompassing the Entire World Within Itself, revealed in its radius, its circularity, and the view of the entire world [...] Lviv 1767. Published by the Lviv Academic Press of the Collegium Societatis Jesu, folio, p. [20], vignette (copperplate engraving), unbound.
E.XIV, 186 (variant with a longer title). A sermon for the feast of St. Benedict delivered by Klemens Chodykiewicz (1715–1797), a Dominican. The print is dedicated to Florian Janowski (1725–1801), a Benedictine monk, abbot of the monastery in Tyniec, and later Bishop of Tarnów. The abbey coat of arms with the Topór family crest on a copperplate vignette (unsigned), most likely created by Teofil Trockiewicz(18th century), a Lviv engraver who specialized in reproducing church paintings and was considered one of the finest engravers of his time in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Minor soiling; otherwise, in very good condition.
