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50 engraved portraits of important church reformers

VERHEIDEN, Jacobus and Henricus HONDIUS (II).
Af-beeldingen van sommighe in Godts-woort ervarene mannen, die bestreden hebben den Roomschen Antichrist.

With the letterpress title in a window cut in the plate used for the engraved title-page of the Latin edition (with 7 tiny figures representing the Pope as antichrist in the mouth of the devil, and Roman Catholic bishops and cardinals falling through the air and losing their hats, staffs, etc.), 50 engraved portrait plates (13 x 12 cm plus the name and 4-line Latin verse at the foot) by Hendrik HONDIUS, showing important church reformers, an engraved emblematic plate, showing a diagram of a geocentric solar eclipse (an allegory for the anti-Christ blocking God's light?) with a Latin poem below it, Nieulandt's woodcut device above the colophon and 16 decorative woodcut initials (2 series) plus about 40 repeats (the largest initial shows the fall of Icarus).

With the letterpress title in a window cut in the plate used for the engraved title-page of the Latin edition (with 7 tiny figures representing the Pope as antichrist in the mouth of the devil, and Roman Catholic bishops and cardinals falling through the air and losing their hats, staffs, etc.), 50 engraved portrait plates (13 x 12 cm plus the name and 4-line Latin verse at the foot) by Hendrik HONDIUS, showing important church reformers, an engraved emblematic plate, showing a diagram of a geocentric solar eclipse (an allegory for the anti-Christ blocking God's light?) with a Latin poem below it, Nieulandt's woodcut device above the colophon and 16 decorative woodcut initials (2 series) plus about 40 repeats (the largest initial shows the fall of Icarus).

With the letterpress title in a window cut in the plate used for the engraved title-page of the Latin edition (with 7 tiny figures representing the Pope as antichrist in the mouth of the devil, and Roman Catholic bishops and cardinals falling through the air and losing their hats, staffs, etc.), 50 engraved portrait plates (13 x 12 cm plus the name and 4-line Latin verse at the foot) by Hendrik HONDIUS, showing important church reformers, an engraved emblematic plate, showing a diagram of a geocentric solar eclipse (an allegory for the anti-Christ blocking God's light?) with a Latin poem below it, Nieulandt's woodcut device above the colophon and 16 decorative woodcut initials (2 series) plus about 40 repeats (the largest initial shows the fall of Icarus).

With the letterpress title in a window cut in the plate used for the engraved title-page of the Latin edition (with 7 tiny figures representing the Pope as antichrist in the mouth of the devil, and Roman Catholic bishops and cardinals falling through the air and losing their hats, staffs, etc.), 50 engraved portrait plates (13 x 12 cm plus the name and 4-line Latin verse at the foot) by Hendrik HONDIUS, showing important church reformers, an engraved emblematic plate, showing a diagram of a geocentric solar eclipse (an allegory for the anti-Christ blocking God's light?) with a Latin poem below it, Nieulandt's woodcut device above the colophon and 16 decorative woodcut initials (2 series) plus about 40 repeats (the largest initial shows the fall of Icarus).

With the letterpress title in a window cut in the plate used for the engraved title-page of the Latin edition (with 7 tiny figures representing the Pope as antichrist in the mouth of the devil, and Roman Catholic bishops and cardinals falling through the air and losing their hats, staffs, etc.), 50 engraved portrait plates (13 x 12 cm plus the name and 4-line Latin verse at the foot) by Hendrik HONDIUS, showing important church reformers, an engraved emblematic plate, showing a diagram of a geocentric solar eclipse (an allegory for the anti-Christ blocking God's light?) with a Latin poem below it, Nieulandt's woodcut device above the colophon and 16 decorative woodcut initials (2 series) plus about 40 repeats (the largest initial shows the fall of Icarus).



The Hague, Beuckel Corneliszoon Nieulandt, 1603. 4to. Contemporary vellum with title written on spine, remains of ties. With the letterpress title in a window cut in the plate used for the engraved title-page of the Latin edition (with 7 tiny figures representing the Pope as antichrist in the mouth of the devil, and Roman Catholic bishops and cardinals falling through the air and losing their hats, staffs, etc.), 50 engraved portrait plates (13 x 12 cm plus the name and 4-line Latin verse at the foot) by Hendrik HONDIUS, showing important church reformers, an engraved emblematic plate, showing a diagram of a geocentric solar eclipse (an allegory for the anti-Christ blocking God's light?) with a Latin poem below it, Nieulandt's woodcut device above the colophon and 16 decorative woodcut initials (2 series) plus about 40 repeats (the largest initial shows the fall of Icarus). [12], 147, [1] ll.

First Dutch edition of the Latin Praestantium Aliquot Theologorum (1602), written to incorporate Hondius's 1599 series of fifty engraved portraits of famous religious reformers, Icones Virorum Nostra Patrumque Memoria Illustrium (1599). Hondius (1573-1650), one of the Netherlands' greatest engravers (not to be confused with the cartographer of the same name), can here be seen developing his own style early in his career. The plate used on the title-page was engraved for the 1602 Latin edition. Each of the fifty engraved portraits has the subject's name and a four-line Latin verse at the foot, and each is followed by a few pages giving a biographical sketch (emphasizing the subject's role in the Reformation), lists of his publications (sometimes with details of the content) and further poems (in Dutch or with a Dutch translation). Most of the subjects were theologians, not only the greatest names, such as Erasmus, Luther, Melanchthon, Hus, Calvin, Zwingli and Beza, but also figures less commonly seen. A few people from other professions appear as well, such as the Paris scholar-printer Robert Estienne, famous for his editions of the Greek New Testament. The Dutch translation is by Pauwels de Kempenare. The present edition was reissued in 1604 by Jan Janssonius at Arnhem, unchanged except for a cancel slip pasted over the imprint.
Nieulandt, active as publisher and apparently also printer at The Hague in the years 1602 to 1606, has few known imprints, and the present book gives a nice overview of his materials. He published the Latin edition together with Hondius, but the Dutch edition on his own account. His device (Bibl. Belgica IV, p. 173) was later used by Ulderick Balck in Franeker, and Balthasar Elzevier in Leiden later used a very similar set of 23 mm initials (we have not seen the 47 mm initial with the fall of Ikarus elsewhere).

Some minor stains, the title-page slightly damaged and quire Mm bound after Nn. Binding slightly stained and recased with early 20th-century endpapers. A great work of Reformed portraiture by Hendrik Hondius, with Verheiden's biographies and bibliographies. Good copy of a rare work.
Bibl. Belg. V, pp. 471-472; New Hollstein, H. Hondius 157-208; Orenstein, Hendrik Hondius, esp. pp. 64-65; Van Someren 169c; NNBW XIII, cols. 805-807; Thieme & Becker XVII, pp. 435-436.

Related Subjects: 17th Century  Church History  Engravings  Portraits  Reformation  Religion 

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