Attributed to De Pretere, Guilielmus.
Theology catholic book Belgium [1795] Catechismus oft Christelyke Leeringe gedeylt in vyf deelen en een-en-veertig lessen. Voor de Catholyke jongheyd van het aerts-bisdom, en alle de andere bisdommen der provincie van Mechelen, W. van Bergen Antwerpen [1795], 60+(4) pp.
Rare book printed in Antwerpen by Willem van Bergen. With woodcut on the titlepage. Attributed to De Pretere, Guilielmus. 1795 edition of the influential Mechelen Catechism, the standard Catholic instructional text for the youth of the Archdiocese of Mechelen and the other dioceses of its ecclesiastical province. Divided into forty-one lessons and five parts, this long-lived question-and-answer catechism is an important witness to Catholic education in the Southern Netherlands, this edition appearing at the moment when the Austrian Netherlands were absorbed into Revolutionary France.
Last 4 pages “Maniere om de misse te dienen, en den priester te antwoorden, naer den Roomschen Missael”.
Paper binding, 18 x 12 cm. Octavo edition, in -8, printed on laid handmade paper.
[NL] Dit is de bekende “Mechelse Catechismus”, een belangrijk en uitzonderlijk lang gebruikt katholiek leerboek in de Zuidelijke Nederlanden. Volgens de Tilburgse catalogus was Hubertus Bincken de eigenlijke drukker.
SKU: 110864
€ 76,30(€ 70,00
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