Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, and theologian

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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.

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.

Encomium matrimonii. Encomium artis medicae / [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.

Colloquiorum familiarum opus, postrema Autoris manu locupletatum et recognitum ... / Una cum autoris vita.

Salubria de tuenda valetudine praecepta / Guilielmo Copo interprete. Item Encomium artis medicae, D. Eras[mi] Rot[erodamo] autore.

An epystell of ye famous doctor Erasm[us] of Roterdam : vnto the reuerende father & excellent prince, Christofer bysshop of Basyle, co[n]cernyng the forbedynge of eatynge of flesshe, and lyke constitutyons of men. &c.

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Erasmus

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Works from the collections

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

Colloquiorum familiarum opus, postrema Autoris manu locupletatum et recognitum ... / Una cum autoris vita.

Salubria de tuenda valetudine praecepta / Guilielmo Copo interprete. Item Encomium artis medicae, D. Eras[mi] Rot[erodamo] autore.

An epystell of ye famous doctor Erasm[us] of Roterdam : vnto the reuerende father & excellent prince, Christofer bysshop of Basyle, co[n]cernyng the forbedynge of eatynge of flesshe, and lyke constitutyons of men. &c.

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Erasmus

Images from the collections

Images by Erasmus

Images featuring Erasmus

Works from the collections

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

Colloquiorum familiarum opus, postrema Autoris manu locupletatum et recognitum ... / Una cum autoris vita.

Salubria de tuenda valetudine praecepta / Guilielmo Copo interprete. Item Encomium artis medicae, D. Eras[mi] Rot[erodamo] autore.

An epystell of ye famous doctor Erasm[us] of Roterdam : vnto the reuerende father & excellent prince, Christofer bysshop of Basyle, co[n]cernyng the forbedynge of eatynge of flesshe, and lyke constitutyons of men. &c.

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