428J Verheiden, Jacob.    

The history of the moderne protestant divines, containing their parents, countries, education, studies, lives, and the yeare of our Lord in which they dyed. With a true register of all their severall treatises, and writings that are extant. Faithfully translated out of Latine by D.L

London : Printed by N. and Iohn Okes are to be sold by Andrew Crooke at ye Bare in Paules church yard  1637

[Entered to J. Okes 5 September 1636; ass’d to J. Stafford 18 November 1637.].                       $6,500.  

Octave: 13.5 x p cm,  5.25″ x 3.25″. A⁸(-A1) a⁸ B-Z⁸ 2A⁸(-2A7,8 Blank). The first adaptation edition in English with 48 engraved portraits. This copy is Bound in modern full calf, stamped and paneled in blind, lettered in gilt, all edges gilt.

A translation of  “Imagines et elogia praestantium aliquot theologorum” by Jacob Verheiden. The section on English reformers is from “Herōologia Anglica Anglica” by Henry Holland. Translator’s dedication signed: Donald Lupton. With engraved portraits after Durer and Hondius, of notable figures from the Protestant Reformation, such as Erasmus, Calvin, Luther, Bale, Tyndale, Cranmer, etc. The Praestantium aliquot theologorum (1602) consisted of 50 engraved portraits of Protestant theologians, with a few earlier figures (Berengar of Tours, John Wycliffe, Jan Hus, Jerome of Prague, Girolamo Savonarola and Erasmus) and a few laymen, for which Verheiden supplied Latin text, including biographical and bibliographical information. Many of the images, by Hendrik Hondius I, had appeared in an earlier work.   [STC 24660]