Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, and theologian (1466-1536)

Desiderius Erasmus: portrait in profile. Drawing, c. 1795, after H. Holbein.

Churchmen: twenty portraits of religious thinkers. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.

Desiderius Erasmus. Drawing, c. 1792, after H. Holbein.

Desiderius Erasmus. Oil painting after H. Holbein.

Desiderius Erasmus. Etching by A. van Dyck.

Desiderius Erasmus. Oil painting after C.J. Visscher.

Erasmus of the Low Countries / James D. Tracy.

Basle and France in the sixteenth century : the Basle humanists and printers in their contacts with Francophone culture / Peter G. Bietenholz.

x, 266 pages, 16 leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 19 cm.

Erasmus of Rotterdam : with a selection from the letters of Erasmus.

Erasmus : paradigm of Renaissance humanism / by Stanley R. Friesen.

442 pages, 7 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Erasmus in het Nederlands tot 1617 [i. e. zestien honderd zeventein] / Simon Willem Bijl.

Encomium matrimonii. Encomium artis medicae / [Desiderius Erasmus].

Desid. Erasmi Roterodami Colloquia / [Desiderius Erasmus].

Lexicon graecolatinum, cui praeter omneis [sic] omnium additiones hactenus ... ingens vocabulorum numerus accessit: idque partim ex Graecorum lexicis, partim ex recentium lucubrationibus ... / Gulielmi Budaei, Erasmi Roterodami, Laurentii Vallae, Harmolai Barbari, Angeli Politiani, Ludovici Coelii, aliorumque eiusdem classis.

Familiares colloquendi formul� , in usum scholarum concinnat�; ... Partim collect�, partim composit�. Editio decima octava, correctior & castigatior, & aliqua parte auctior.

Online resource ([62] c., 2,042 [i.e. 2,044] color, [1] c., 4°.).

Adagia quaecumque ad hanc diem exierunt, Paulli Manutij studio, atque industria, ... ab omnibus mendis vindicata, quae pium, & veritatis Catholicae studiosum lectorem poterant offendere: sublatis etiam falsis interpretationibus, & nonnullis, ... digressionibus. Quem laborem, a sacrosancti Concilii Tridentini patribus Manutio mandatum.

Online resource (volumes, In-8° , 188 ff.).

Vidua christiana, per Des. Erasmum,... opus recens natum et nunc primum excusum. Liber Lactancii Firmiani de opificio Dei, per Des. Eras mum ac accurate recognitus et additis scholiis illustratus.

52 pages : title page with woodcut border ; (4to)

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Erasmus

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Familiares colloquendi formul� , in usum scholarum concinnat�; ... Partim collect�, partim composit�. Editio decima octava, correctior & castigatior, & aliqua parte auctior.

Vidua christiana, per Des. Erasmum,... opus recens natum et nunc primum excusum. Liber Lactancii Firmiani de opificio Dei, per Des. Eras mum ac accurate recognitus et additis scholiis illustratus.

Encomium matrimonii. Encomium artis medicae / [Desiderius Erasmus].

Erasmus of the Low Countries / James D. Tracy.

Basle and France in the sixteenth century : the Basle humanists and printers in their contacts with Francophone culture / Peter G. Bietenholz.

Erasmus of Rotterdam : with a selection from the letters of Erasmus.

Erasmus : paradigm of Renaissance humanism / by Stanley R. Friesen.

Erasmus in het Nederlands tot 1617 [i. e. zestien honderd zeventein] / Simon Willem Bijl.

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Erasmus

Images from the collections

Images by Erasmus

Images featuring Erasmus

Works from the collections

Familiares colloquendi formul� , in usum scholarum concinnat�; ... Partim collect�, partim composit�. Editio decima octava, correctior & castigatior, & aliqua parte auctior.

Vidua christiana, per Des. Erasmum,... opus recens natum et nunc primum excusum. Liber Lactancii Firmiani de opificio Dei, per Des. Eras mum ac accurate recognitus et additis scholiis illustratus.

Encomium matrimonii. Encomium artis medicae / [Desiderius Erasmus].

Erasmus of the Low Countries / James D. Tracy.

Basle and France in the sixteenth century : the Basle humanists and printers in their contacts with Francophone culture / Peter G. Bietenholz.

Erasmus of Rotterdam : with a selection from the letters of Erasmus.

Erasmus : paradigm of Renaissance humanism / by Stanley R. Friesen.

Erasmus in het Nederlands tot 1617 [i. e. zestien honderd zeventein] / Simon Willem Bijl.

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