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De Ioannis Calvini, magni quondam Geneuensium ministri, vita, moribus, rebus gestis, studijs, ac denique morte historia.

Bolsec, Jérôme-Hermès, d. ca. 1585, Alectorius, Ludwig, fl. 1575-1586, printer, Haeredes Jacobi Soteri, printer · 1580 · Coloniae : Apud Ludouicum Alectorium & haeredes Iacobi Soteris. · 4 pictures

A Latin biography of the Genevan reformer John Calvin, published in Cologne in 1580 by Ludwig Alectorius and the heirs of Jacob Soter and written by the former Carmelite Jérôme-Hermès Bolsec as a hostile account. Its pictures are small woodcut and engraved portraits in oval frames, with one ornate cartouche and a decorative roundel, offering a designer models of sixteenth-century portrait framing and lettering.

Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564 · Calvinism · Reformation

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