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Anonymous history of the Mennonites
[MENNONITES].Histoire des anabaptistes, Contenant leur Doctrine, les diverses Opinions qui les divisent en plusieurs Sects, Les Troubles qu'ils ont causez, & enfin tout ce qui s'est passé de plus considérable à leur égard, depuis l'an 1521. jusques à present.     Amsterdam, Jacques Desbordez, 1700. Sm.8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt, with red title-label, red mottled edges. With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece, title printed in red and black, and 17 full-page engraved plates. (6), 280 pp. Rare edition of an anonymous Amsterdam edition of the "History of the Mennonites", according to the Mennonite Encyclopedia not to be confused with the same title, published anonymously at Paris in 1695, written by the French Jesuit François Catrou. The identity of the author of the present Amsterdam edition was never solved. The confusion was caused by the fact that both the present and Catrou's book were enlarged editions, brought up-to-date, of the famous "Tumultum Anabaptistarum", by Lambertus Hortensius, first published at Basel in 1548. Hortensius' book for centuries influenced all Anabaptist histories. For the present edition part of the plates also had been used in the Dutch translation of Hortensius' book published at Amsterdam in 1660, and here are somewhat shorter than the text-pages of the book. The plates depict Mennonites in church, preaching, running naked through the town, but mostly they show the torturing and execution of Mennonites. In his preface the anonymous author claims that he used many different sources, representing various points of view. Good copy.- (Top of first blank cut off; small brown stain at top of first lvs.).
Mennonite Encyclopedia II, p. 748.
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