Record ID | cp012950 |
Voet reference number | 1746bis |
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Author | Hendrik NICLAES |
Title page transcription | [Heading:] Nu geit idt Gerichte ouer de Werlt: Nu wert de Fo̒rste ‖ desser Werlt vthgeworpen. Joan. 12. ‖ Rustet edder Wapenet juw / vnde werdet o̒uerwonnen. Lieuer rustet juw / vnde werdet o̒uerwonnen. Beslu= ‖ tet einen Raedt / vnde daer werde nicht vth. Bespreket ein Wordt / vnde idt geschee nicht. Went Godt is mit vns. Jesa. 8 Broadside From top to bottom: 1) Heading; 2) Text (in gothic type [Schwabacher] on a column at either side of a large woodcut; at the end of the column to the right: 'Uth Lieften am dach gegeuen dorch H.N.'); 3) Under text and woodcut, two lines of text (in gothic type [Schwabacher]) explaining the illustration: 'De Werlt mit er Vorwo̒stinge unde Rebell': De Sùnde / Doidt / Dùuel / vnde Hell, ‖ stryden wedder idt Lam mit Glori: Menn Tlam vorwint se / vnde holdt de Victori.'. |
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Illustrations | Woodcut with symbolical-religious meaning: Twice the earth (represented as a ball). On top of the left ball, the Holy Lamb (bearing a standard with the inscription 'Victori', and surmounted by a banderole with the inscription 'De Wech de Waerheit vnde idt Leuen.'), standing on a skeleton, the ball itself crushing a devil (with the inscription 'Sūde'). On top of the right ball, a devil and a skeleton with between them the inscription 'Sunde.'. Beneath the ball the Holy Lamb accompanied by an inscription 'De Wech de Waerheit vnde idt Leuen.'. Above in the illustration an angel with a banderole showing the inscription 'Nu is de Salicheit / de Kraft / vn̄ idt Ryck, vnserē Gode geworden: vn̄ de macht, synem Christo. Apo. 12'. The inscriptions are printed typographically within cut-out slots in the wood-block |
Copies | Bibliotheek der Verenigde Doopsgezinde Gemeente, Amsterdam- a photographic reproduction in Museum Plantin-Moretus |
Bibliographical references | de la Fontaine Verwey, page 206, no. 96 |
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Note 1 | Illustration from the second edition of Den spegel der gherechticheit (in first introductory part, folio [IIro]; see no. cp011794) with an appropriate text. |
Note 2 | According to de la Fontaine Verwey printed by Plantin between 1555-1562. |
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