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Les Vrais Pourtraits des Hommes illustres en piete et Doctrine, du Trauail desquels Dieu s'est serui en ces derniers temps, pour remettre sus la vraye Religion en diuers pays de la Chrestienté : Auec les Descriptions de leur Vie & de lerrs faits plus memorables : Plus Quarantequatre Emblemes Chrestiens.

Accession number
PML 151667
Creator
Bèze, Théodore de, 1519-1605.
Published
A Geneve : Par Jean de Laon, 1581.
Credit line
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman.
Notes
The present edition was preceeded by the 1580 Latin edition but is augmented by ten portraits and an additional emblem. The portraits depict Hus, Estienne, Thomas Crammer Knox, etc.
Includes index.
With 48 woodcut portraits of the principal reformers, 44 emblems and numerous woodcut devices.
Description
284 p.
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Full green morocco binding by Hardy.
Classification
Department