Bernard Picart Attributed (2 results)
More imagesL'Alcoran des Cordeliers. Tant en Latin qu'en Francois. C'est-a-dire, Recueil des plus notables bourdes & blasphemes de ceux qui ont ose comparer Sainct Francois a Jesus Christ: tire du grand livre des Conformitez, jadis compose par frere Barthelemi de Pise, Cordelier en son vivant.
ALBERUS, Erasmus (c.1500 â"1553) (attributed); PICART, Bernard (1673-1733) (illustrator).
Published by Aux Depens de la Compagnie, 1734., Amsterdam : 1734
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Two volumes. 12mo. [20], 396; [2], 419, [1] pp. Text in both Latin and French. Title printed in red & black. 21 engraved plates (1 folding, being a genealogical tree St. Francis at the foot of the cross bearing the forty relations of Saint Francis with Christ). Original full gilt-stamped calf; joints worn, corners showing. Very…good. First Illustrated edition. A vicious attack on Catholicism. / "Not only did he fight for the Protestant cause as a preacher and theologian, but he was almost the only member of Luther's party who was able to confront the Roman Catholics with the weapon of literary satire. In 1542 he published a prose satire to which Luther wrote the preface, Der Barfusser Monche Eulenspiegel und Alkoran, a parodic adaptation of the Liber conformitatum of the Franciscan Bartolommeo Rinonico of Pisa, in which the Franciscan order is held up to ridicule. This drew reactions from Catholic scholars such as Henricus Sedulius, who published the Apologeticus aduersus Alcoranum Franciscanorum, pro Libro Conformitatum, which criticized Alberus' arguments in this satire." [Wikip.]. See: GTU, BJRT (2016). Berkeley Journal of Religion and Theology, Vol.2, No. 2. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Journal of Religion and Theology. p. 89. / Weller attributes this to being printed in Paris. The text was translated by Conrad Badius. Martin Luther contributed a preface. / Bernard Picart or Picard, was a French draughtsman, engraver, and book illustrator in Amsterdam.
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Half-length portrait of Admiral Michiel de Ruyter in armor. A page in the left background holds the helmet of the armor. On the bottom right seascape with personages ashore.On the bottom an inscription: "MICHIEL DE RUITER, / Hartog, Ridder, &c L. Admiraal Generaal / van Hollandt en West-vrieslandt.", used in Geerard Brandt s "He…t leven en bedryf van den heere Michiel de Ruiter.", published in Amsterdam.[NL] Portret ten halven lijve van Michiel Adriaansz de Ruyter voor twee liggende kannonnen. In zijn linkerhand houdt hij een commandostaf. Op de achtergrond is een een zeeslag afgebeeld. Onder zijn portret een plint, waarop zijn naam en titel in drie regels in een cartouche. Engraving on paper with margins; plate mark: 263 x 168 mm, total: 314 x 194 mm; Muller II 4627.
