Accession number
PML 17419
Creator
Verstegan, Richard, ca. 1550-1640.
Published
Antiverpiae : Apud Hadrianum Huberti, 1604.
Notes
The Latin verses under the plates are by I. Boschius, of Brussels (i.e. Jean Boch, Boghe 1555-1609).
... 29 copperplate engravings (all unsigned) in the text. The scenes of martyrdom resemble and are contemporary with the murals in San Stefano Rotondo in Rome. It has been suggested (Van Havre sale, 1905, no. 131) that the engravings are by J. (Jan or Jerome) Wierix.
Cruelties inflicted upon Catholics in France by the Huguenots, in Belgium by the Calvinists, and by heretics and Calvinists in England.
Divided into 4 sections with separate title-pages: (1) Crvdelitatvm et immanitatvm schismaticorvm Angliae regnante Henrico rege eivs nominis octavo particularis descriptio. (2) Horribilia qvnedam crvdelitatis facinora in Galliis adversvs Catholicos patrata ab quos vulgus Hugonottos vocat, ab eo tempore quo ijdem primùm Regi rebellarunt; Anno 1562. (3) Particvlaris qvorvndam facinorvm crvdelivm descriptio, a Calvini asseclis (qui se Geusios infami nomine nuncupant) in Belgio commissorum. (4) Inqvisitionis Anglicanae; et facinorvm crvdelivm Machiavellicorvm in Anglia & Hibernai à Caluinistis protestantibus, Elizabetha regnante, peractorum, Descriptio.
Full imprint: Antwerpiae, Apud Hadrianum Huberti, Anno CIC.DCIIII. Cvm Privelegio.
The interleaved ms. leaves contain a translation in Dutch of the Latin text and (?) unpublished life of Mary, Queen of Scots(?) ...
The 1st ed. was published at Antwerp, Adrian Hubert, 1587. It was trans: into French and printed in Antwerp, 1588. Reprinted in Antwerp, 1588, 1592.
Signatures: A-M4; B3 missigned B2. Pagination begins with 3 on A2[superscript]a and ends correctly on M4a with 95.
... 29 copperplate engravings (all unsigned) in the text. The scenes of martyrdom resemble and are contemporary with the murals in San Stefano Rotondo in Rome. It has been suggested (Van Havre sale, 1905, no. 131) that the engravings are by J. (Jan or Jerome) Wierix.
Cruelties inflicted upon Catholics in France by the Huguenots, in Belgium by the Calvinists, and by heretics and Calvinists in England.
Divided into 4 sections with separate title-pages: (1) Crvdelitatvm et immanitatvm schismaticorvm Angliae regnante Henrico rege eivs nominis octavo particularis descriptio. (2) Horribilia qvnedam crvdelitatis facinora in Galliis adversvs Catholicos patrata ab quos vulgus Hugonottos vocat, ab eo tempore quo ijdem primùm Regi rebellarunt; Anno 1562. (3) Particvlaris qvorvndam facinorvm crvdelivm descriptio, a Calvini asseclis (qui se Geusios infami nomine nuncupant) in Belgio commissorum. (4) Inqvisitionis Anglicanae; et facinorvm crvdelivm Machiavellicorvm in Anglia & Hibernai à Caluinistis protestantibus, Elizabetha regnante, peractorum, Descriptio.
Full imprint: Antwerpiae, Apud Hadrianum Huberti, Anno CIC.DCIIII. Cvm Privelegio.
The interleaved ms. leaves contain a translation in Dutch of the Latin text and (?) unpublished life of Mary, Queen of Scots(?) ...
The 1st ed. was published at Antwerp, Adrian Hubert, 1587. It was trans: into French and printed in Antwerp, 1588. Reprinted in Antwerp, 1588, 1592.
Signatures: A-M4; B3 missigned B2. Pagination begins with 3 on A2[superscript]a and ends correctly on M4a with 95.
Description
95 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Provenance
With the armorial book-plate of Gustave Charles Antoine Marie Van Havre (1817-1892); his sale 11-15 Dec., 1905, item 132.
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