Gross Martyrbuch vnd Kirchen-Historien : darinnen herrliche vnd in Gottes Wort gegründte Glaubensbekantnussen, Gespräch vnd Disputationen, wieder die Ketzer vnd Feinde der göttlichen Warheit, sambt andern denckwürdigen Reden vnd Thaten vieler heyligen Märtyrer beschrieben werden, welche nach den Zeiten der Aposteln, biss auffs Iahr Christi MDXCVII. hin vnd wieder in Teutschland, Frankreich, ... vnd America, &c. vmb der evangelischen Warheit willen jämmerlich verfolget, gemartert vnd endlich auff allerley Weiss hingerichtet worden / anfänglich in frantzösischer Spraach beschrieben, vnd in zwölff Bücher abgetheylet ... vbergesetzt vnd in teutsche Spraache gebracht durch D. Paulum Crocium Cycnaeum ... ; sampt zweyen Registern, deren eyns die Namen der Märtyrer vermeldet, das ander, die fürnembsten Puncten christlicher Religion, so hierin erklärt werden, anzeygt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crespin, Jean, -1572.

Contributor:

Antonius, Wilhelm, -1611, printer.

Henry Charles Lea Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Histoire des martyrs. German

Language:

French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600)

German

Subjects (All):

Martyrs--Early works to 1800.

Martyrs.

Persecution--Early works to 1800.

Persecution.

Church history--Early works to 1800.

Church history.

Penn Provenance:

Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909 (autograph) (bookplate)

Physical Description:

36 unnumbered pages, 1721 pages, 7 unnumbered pages ; 36 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Gross Martyrbuch und Kirchen-Historien

Fingerprint:

ilzu egm- urel Vnha (3) 1606 (R)

Place of Publication:

Gedruckt zu Hanaw : Durch Guilielmum Antonium, Im Iahr MDCVI [1606]

Notes:

Translation of: Histoire ses martyrs, Geneva, 1554.

Colophon on leaf ²4F6r, which reads: Gedruckt zu Hanau, durch Wilhelmum Antonium, im Jahr MDCVI.

Signatures: ):(-3):(⁶ A-4Z⁶, ²2A-4F⁶.

Letter-press title in red and black within engraved illustrated border.

Woodcut head- and tail-pieces.

Typographical ornaments.

Printed marginalia.

Dedicated by Crocius to the Landgrave Moritz of Hesse and his consort.

Includes indexes.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy bound in full blind-stamped pig over indented, beveled-edge wooden boards; title and date stamped on upper board; evidence of corner plates; 2 leather and metal fore-edge clasps with metal catchplates; 5 raised bands on spine; blind-stamped spine panels; ms. title and date on spine; all edges blue.

Penn Libraries copy has Henry Charles Lea's bookplate on front pastedown and his autograph (1888) on front free endpaper; bookseller's printed description with ms. corrections affixed to front pastedown; illegible ms. inscription at foot of front pastedown.

Penn Libraries copy: binding, pastedowns and endpapers lightly wormed; several wormholes in fore-edge margin and a few in head margin of leaves at beginning of volume; a few wormholes in leaves at end of volume with occasional minor damage to text.

Cited in:

VD 17 23:271756E

OCLC:

64053614