The burning of a bookseller in 1543
Haemstede, Adriaen van (auteur/author)
Blanken, Abr. Jeuriaensz van (uitgever/publisher)
year: 1658
type: illustratie
illustration
detail: nee
dimensions: 29 x 19 cm.
related terms: boekencensuur
period: 16e eeuw
classification:
K: Maatschappelijke aspecten van boekproductie en -verspreiding
contents: This illustration comes from a Dutch book on the atrocities which took place at the time of the Inquisition. Here a bookseller is being burned in 1543 in Avignon as punishment for distributing Bibles in the vernacular. To illustrate his "crime" a Bible has been fastened to his chest. In the Netherlands, it was also strictly forbidden to print, distribute or read Lutheran writings. In the time of Charles V, a whole series of proclamations appeared against heretical books and translations into the vernacular. Infringements were punished severely and there are examples of printers condemned to death for disobeying the rule.
origineel:
source: Haemstede, Adriaen van. - Historie der martelaren, die om het getuygenisse der Evangelischer waerheydt haer bloedt gestort hebben, van de tijden Christi onses Salighmakers af tot den jare 1625 toe, enz. - Amsterdam: Abr. Jeuriaensz van Blanken, 1658, f. 87v.
available in: Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Den Haag 1002 A 24
©description: Den Haag Koninklijke Bibliotheek
©reproduction: Den Haag Koninklijke Bibliotheek
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