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L'Alcoran des cordeliers : tant en latin qu'en françois, c'est a dire, recueil des plus notables bourdes & blasphemes de ceux qui ont osé comparer Sainct François à Iesus Christ, tiré du grand livre des conformitez / jadis composé par frere Barthelemi de Pise, cordelier en son vivant.

Accession number
PML 126263-64
Creator
Alber, Erasmus, approximately 1500-1553.
Published
Amsterdam : Aux depens de la compagnie, 1734.
Credit line
Bequest of E. Clark Stillman, 1995.
Notes
Title pages printed in red and black.
Satirical commentary on and selections from De conformitate vitae beati Francisci ad vitam Domini Jesu by Bartholomeus de Pisis.
Attributed to Alber; French translation by Conrad Badius. Cf. Barbier, A.A. Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes.
V. 1 has added engraved t.p. dated 1733.
Signatures: v. 1: *⁹ A-Q¹² R⁶; v. 2: [pi]1 A-R¹² S⁶.
Description
2 v. (v. 1: [18], 396, [15] leaves of plates (1 folded); v. 2: [2], 419, [1] p., [7] leaves of plates) : ill. (engravings) ; 18 cm
Provenance
William Stirling-Maxwell, 9th Baronet of Pollok (1818-1878), binding and bookplate; collection of E. Clark Stillman.
Binding
Full brown calf, with Stirling's crest stamped on front covers of each volume, and initials on back covers of each volume, by J. Leighton.
Classification
Department