Title: Historie Van Broer Cornelis Adriaensen Van Dordrecht, Minrebroeder binnen de stadt van Brugge
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Full title: </b>Historie Van Broer Cornelis Adriaensen Van Dordrecht, Minrebroeder binnen de stadt van Brugge: Waer in verhaelt word, de Discipline en secrete penitentie, der Vrouwen by hem gebruyckelijck. Nevens Sijne wonderlijke, vuyle, grouwelijcke bloeddorstige en lasterlijcke Sermoonen, Door hem tot Brugge gepredickt, tegen de Magistraet aldaer, tegen de vier Leden van Vlaenderen, en veele Princen, Graven en Heeren, ter oorsaeck van de troubelen in de Religie; tegen de Calvinisten, Lutherianen, Doopers en Erasmianen, &amp;c. Waer tusschen begreepen zyn de Brieven van Stephanus Lindius; twee Disputatien, en verscheyden Pasquillen op hem gemaeckt. Eerste Deel.


</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"> First of 2 vols in 8vo. ff. [2] (blank), pp. 384, ff. [2] (blank). Signatures: A-Z8 Aa8. Contemporary vellum. Manuscript spine. Blue edges. Pasted vendor’s notes and and manuscript note on Hubert Goltz on front pastedown. Engraved frontispiece of Brother Cornelis in the pulpit on half-title page. Author from foreword. Title vignette on title page of each volume. Engraved initials. Printed annotations. Printed in Roman and Gothic characters.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">A Franciscan preaching at Bruges, Cornelis Adriaenszoon Brouwer (1521–1581) had become famous for being a politically inspired proponent of Catholic orthodoxy, which made him a target of Calvinist pamphlets and caricatures. In 1569, his opponents published a work by ‘Christianus Neuter,’ the Impartial Christian, containing fake vernacular sermons by Brother Cornelis in which he attacked Protestants and Erasmian Catholics in the most violent and coarse terms. The book also describes how Brouwer founded a secret society of attractive women and girls of which he acted as the flagellating father confessor. The satirical work is now usually attributed to his ‘editor’ of 1569, the Bruges printer and publisher Hubert Goltz, and a curé of Bruges, Jean de Casteele and was extremely successful: up until its last print in 1714, it was printed no less then seventeen times. The present 1698 edition adds two more apocryphal ‘Brother Cornelis’ dialogues for the first time: see P. C. Molhuysen &amp; P. J. Blok (eds.), Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek. Leiden, 1918, iv, cols. 452–58; H. S. Ashbee, Index Librorum Prohibitorum. London, 1877, pp. 415-422; Id., Centuria Librorum Absconditorum. London, 1879, pp. 212-224.
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