Live auction - Lot 998

MELANCHTHON, Philippus

Waerachtich verhael eener wonderlijcker ghedaente eenes Pausschen Ezels, ghevonden inde Riviere den Tiber, binnen Rome, Anno 1496. [...] Na de Copie ghedruct tot Geneve, by Jan Crispin.

S.l., s.n., [1609]

€ 250 / 400

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4to: [20] pp.

Mod. (late 19th-c.?) paper wr. over cardboard.

Satirical and fierce description of the papacy. On the title a monster representing the papacy as described by Melanchthon: an upright, two-legged creature with a donkey's head, female breasts, a corpus with fish scales, an ox and an elephant's leg.
Ref. Knuttel 1674. - STCN (i.a. 1 at BL London).
Prov. J.W. Six (bookpl.). W.C. Baert de Waarde (bookpl.).

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Lot 998

Waerachtich verhael eener wonderlijcker ghedaente eenes Pausschen Ezels, ghevonden inde Riviere den Tiber, binnen Rome, Anno 1496. [...] Na de Copie ghedruct tot Geneve, by Jan Crispin.

MELANCHTHON, Philippus

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