L'Alcoran des Cordeliers. Tant en Latin qu'en Francois. C'est-a-dire, Recueil des plus notables bourdes & blasphemes de ceux qui ont ose comparer Sainct Francois a Jesus Christ: tire du grand livre des Conformitez, jadis compose par frere Barthelemi de Pise, Cordelier en son vivant. by ALBERUS, Erasmus (c.1500 –1553) (attributed); PICART, Bernard (1673-1733) (illustrator) - 1734

Amsterdam :: Aux Depens de la Compagnie, 1734., 1734. Two volumes. 12mo. [20], 396; [2], 419, [1] pp. Text in both Latin and French. Title printed in red & black. 21 engraved plates (1 folding, being a genealogical tree St. Francis at the foot of the cross bearing the forty relations of Saint Francis with Christ). Original full gilt-stamped calf; joints worn, corners showing. Very good. First Illustrated edition. A vicious attack on Catholicism. / "Not only did he fight for the Protestant cause as a preacher and theologian, but he was almost the only member of Luther's party who was able to confront the Roman Catholics with the weapon of literary satire. In 1542 he published a prose satire to which Luther wrote the preface, Der Barfusser Monche Eulenspiegel und Alkoran, a parodic adaptation of the Liber conformitatum of the Franciscan Bartolommeo Rinonico of Pisa, in which the Franciscan order is held up to ridicule. This drew reactions from Catholic scholars such as Henricus Sedulius, who published the Apologeticus aduersus Alcoranum Franciscanorum, pro Libro Conformitatum, which criticized Alberus' arguments in this satire." [Wikip.]. See: GTU, BJRT (2016). Berkeley Journal of Religion and Theology, Vol.2, No. 2. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Journal of Religion and Theology. p. 89. / Weller attributes this to being printed in Paris. The text was translated by Conrad Badius. Martin Luther contributed a preface. / Bernard Picart or Picard, was a French draughtsman, engraver, and book illustrator in Amsterdam.