CORPVS NVMISMATVM OMNIVM
ROMANORVM PONTIFICVM
(C.N.O.R.P. - Vol. IV)
Rome 2006 - edited by the author.
In 4° - pages 640.
293 medals catalogued.
Rome 2006 - edited by the author.In 4° (cm 31,5 x 23,5) – 640 pages.
Print run of 300 copies - 293 medals catalogued.
620 black and white photographs.
32 colour recapitulatory plates. Introduction by Alan M. Stahl Curator of Numismatics Princeton University (USA).

Last in a series of four volumes cataloguing and detailing all the papal medals of the XV and XVI centuries.
This volume reaches 1621, obviously icluding all the medals of Paul V’s papacy (1605-1621).
The medals are catalogued according to a new method, respecting the chronological sequence of the Popes,
and the chronological order in which they were created under each Pope. For each medal a standard file has
been drawn up occupying two pages, providing life-size photographs of the obverse and reverse, the name of
the artist, all the distinguishing technical data, their characteristic features, the rarity and a brief historical account of the event commemorated.�The files are completed by the explanation and translation of the inscriptions, the most important bibliographical information and additional photographs to illustrate the information given. The files are preceded by a brief history of the papal medal and the volume is completed by short
biographies of the artists, an ample bibliography, an alphabetical index of the inscriptions on the reverses and
recapitulatory plates with pictures of all the medals catalogued.

This volume of the Corpus Numismatum Omnium Romanorum Pontificum signals the achievement of a milestone in the literature of papal numismatics as it documents a transition in the development of papal medals
and medallic art as a whole. As in the previous three volumes, each medallic issue, including known later restrikes and restitutions, is published with illustration, full references, and invaluable commentary on the technical, artistic and historical aspects of its content. This volume dovetails with the later ones described below on
pages 19 to 21 to provide a complete conspectus of papal medals from the origins to the present day, making this the only series of medals to be so completely described.
... With the medals so beautifully illustrated and rigorously studied in this volume, the entire medium of the medal can be seen to have come of age.

Alan M. Stahl