Portraits of divines, theologians and ecclesiastics; lists of officers in the British Navy. Navy list and album of engravings, 1826.

A "palinchrest": printed pages of lists of officers in the Royal Navy, pasted over with portraits from ca. 1700 of divines, and bound as an album of portraits. Fols. 1-14: navy list pasted over on both sides with engraved portraits of divines etc. in alphabetical order of subjects from Aquinas to Wilkins. Engravings are in uniform format with engraved roundels around the figures and masonry surrounds; some variations in the format of the names. Fols. 15-52: navy list, officers commissioned ca. 1750-1790, pagination inconsistent

Divines: Thomas Aquinas; John Aylmer Bishop of London; the Venerable Bede; Saint Bernard of Clairvaux; Martin Bucer; Saint Gregory Nazienzen; Saint Gregory the Great; Archbishop Grindall; Bishop Gunning; Joseph Hall Bishop of Norwich; Saint Jerome; Jerome of Prague (Jeroným Pražský); Jan Hus; Ignatius (?); Bishop Mew, i.e. Peter Mews (1619-1706), Bishop of Winchester; Bishop Overall (John Overall, 1561-1619, bishop of Norwich); Archbishop Matthew Parker; Bishop Pearson (John Pearson, 1613-1686, bishop of Chester); Bishop Taylor; Bishop Usher; Seth Ward Bishop of Salisbury; Bishop White; Wickliff (John Wyclyf); Bishop Wilkins

1826.

52 leaves : letterpress and engravings ; 18 cm

An album used in the same way is in the British Museum (no. 1952,0117.14.1), containing 17th-century prints "pasted on pages of the publication 'A list of the officers of the army, and marines; with an index: a list of the officers half-pay; and a succession of colonels' (War Office, the 15th March 1788, the 36th edition), bound in a red moroccan leather, tool-gilted on the covers and a strip of tool-gilted leather pasted on the spine, titled 'Engravings'" (BM online catalogue)

Portraits of divines Inscription on front pastedown: "Geo A. Smyth March 1826", presumably the owner and/or the person who created the album of engravings

Wellcome Collection 29854i