This message is being cross posted to SHARP, excuse the duplication.
I am working with the Inquisition trials of Pedro Ocharte,
Mexico's third printer, and one of his engravers, Juan Ortiz
(1571-1574). Ortiz produced an image of Our Lady of the Rosery that
got him in a peck of trouble with the Holy Office. In an excellent
article for "The Colophon," Lawrence Wroth reproduces the image which
was included with the trial documents, and states that it is the
first woodblock print produced in the New World to which a name and a
date can be assigned.
The records mention a second image of Our Lady of the Rosery,
produced in France, that served as a model for Ortiz. The latter
included a verse that clearly identifies it as Lutheran Propaganda.
R. W. Scribner's "For the Sake of the Simple Folk" discusses
German propagandistic broadsides and other prints, and includes some
excellent examples. I am curious to know 1) if there are library
collections of French or (good heavens!) Spanish "Lutheran
Propaganda" and 2) if there are any secondary sources, such as
Scribner, reproducing or analyzing French or Spanish broadsides from
the period. I have searched the catalogs and stacks here at UT with
no success.
Regards
Ken
Ken Ward, MLIS mailto:kcward@mail.utexas.edu
Graduate Student, Department of History
The University of Texas at Austin