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Votum unanime Parnassi Salisburgensis deorum judicio et assensu approbatum, dum in celsiss.mum ac rever.mum S.R.I. Principem, Archiepiscopum Salisburgensem &c. &c. electus esset Joannes Ernestus è S.R.I. comitibus de Thun, Episcopus Seccoviensis

Mayr, Johann Baptist, 1634-1708 · 1687 · [Salzburg] : Typis Joannis Baptistae Mayr, typographi aulico-academici · 44 pictures

A 1687 Latin printed tribute issued in Salzburg by the court printer Johann Baptist Mayr, celebrating the election of Count Johann Ernst von Thun as prince-archbishop, with its frontispiece and plates made for a princely and ecclesiastical audience. The engraved plates present allegorical emblems: an eagle above a gated ruin, a potted tree with flanking plants, an obelisk with a seated winged figure, and a winged scholar writing beside an eagle, framed in ornate scrollwork and cherubs, offering designers models for baroque cartouches and emblematic framing.

Thun, Johann Ernst, Reichsgraf von, 1643-1709 · Benedictines

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