‎RADER (Matthäus) s.j. (1561-1634)‎
‎BAVARIA SANCTA, Maximiliani Sereniss. Principis Imperii comitis palatini Rheni utriusq. Bav. Ducis auspiciis coepta, descripta eidémq. nuncupata a Matthaeo Radero de Societate Iesu.‎

‎ 1704 vélin ivoire estampé, étiquette rouge et dorée, tr. rouges. 4 tomes en 1 vol. in-folio, (9ff.), 309pp. (11 ff.) ; (16ff.), 373pp., (6ff.), (1f. blanc) ; (4ff.), 209pp., (4ff.) ; (6ff.), 188pp., (5ff). Monachii, Olim Per Raphaelem Sadeler, Ser.mi Maximiliani Calcographum Venum Exposita, Et Nunc Recusa Sumptibus Ioannis Caspari Bencard Bibliop. Diling. August. 1704‎

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‎4 titres gravés, 143 planches.Edition la plus complète. La première édition est de 1624 est en trois volumes et a 124 planches de Raphael Sadeler. Le quatrième volume fut publié en 1704.A noter deux planches montrant les supposés crimes rituels des juifs.Trevor Johnson showed how the Jesuit Matthaeus Rader's lavishly illustrated Bavaria Sancta (1615-28), directly commissioned by Duke Maximilian I, promoted a distinctive vision of pietas bavarica, harmonising land, Church and dynasty. The work helped to define Bavaria as the premier Catholic territory within the Holy Roman Empire, while within the duchy, its illustrated stories fostered the great expansion and proliferation of shrines and pilgrimages, including the reactivated cults of ancient local Bavarian saints, which were so much a feature of the religious culture of the territory during the Baroque period. In several respects, Tamas Sayo's account of Jesuit hagiographical writing in Hungary, offered a complimentary analysis. Le Raccolte di Vite di Santi e la costruzione delle identità politiche in Europa tra XV e XVIII secolo (in Aissca : Simon Ditchfield)http://www.aissca.it/ ‎