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ALBER (E.) & BADE (C.). L'alcoran des Cordeliers, both in Latin and in French, that is to say, a collection of the most notable blunders and blasphemies of those who have dared to compare Sainct François to Jesus Christ. Amsterdam, at the expense of the Company, 1734. 2 volumes in-12, red morocco, spines decorated with nerfs, triple gilt fillet framing the boards, gilt fillet on the edges, inner gilt roulette, gilt tr. [1] 8 ff.n.ch., 396 pp., [1] 419 pp. The illustration consists of a title-frontispiece, a folding genealogical table and 20 in-text figures all engraved in intaglio by Bernard Picart. The Alcoranus Franciscanorum by Erasmus Alber, whose present translation by Conrad Baden was published in 1556, is a collection of the most blasphemous extracts from the "Liber conformitatum", a work that has remained famous for the absurdities it contains, in which its author, Bartolomeo degli Albizzi, intended to underline the similarities between the life of Christ and that of St. Francis. (Brunet I, 152; Cohen, 5.) A precious copy in contemporary morocco.
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ALBER (E.) & BADE (C.). L'alcoran des Cordeliers, both in Latin and in French, that is to say, a collection of the most notable blunders and blasphemies of those who have dared to compare Sainct François to Jesus Christ. Amsterdam, at the expense of the Company, 1734. 2 volumes in-12, red morocco, spines decorated with nerfs, triple gilt fillet framing the boards, gilt fillet on the edges, inner gilt roulette, gilt tr. [1] 8 ff.n.ch., 396 pp., [1] 419 pp. The illustration consists of a title-frontispiece, a folding genealogical table and 20 in-text figures all engraved in intaglio by Bernard Picart. The Alcoranus Franciscanorum by Erasmus Alber, whose present translation by Conrad Baden was published in 1556, is a collection of the most blasphemous extracts from the "Liber conformitatum", a work that has remained famous for the absurdities it contains, in which its author, Bartolomeo degli Albizzi, intended to underline the similarities between the life of Christ and that of St. Francis. (Brunet I, 152; Cohen, 5.) A precious copy in contemporary morocco.
