1567 1st Edtn CATECHISMUS ROMANUS, EC DECRETO CONCILIIJ TRIDENTINI By CATHOLIC CHURCH Good Religion

Dillingen, Germany: Sebald Mayer, 1567. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Crown octavo (8vo 5+3?8 × 8 137 × 203). Please email for Photographs or further information. Good - Contemporary leather over wooden boards with rich floral, ornamental and figural blind embossing and two clasps. Spine partly restored and with later handwritten title. Some rubbing, corners bumped, wear to joints. -Rare. Title with contemporary ms. Ownership entry, shaved stamp and restored missing parts in the margin. Front flying attachment missing. Endpapers with contemporary ms. Annotations. Somewhat waterstained, slightly browned and stained. Somewhat rubbed, corners bumped, joints with signs of wear. Overall well preserved. Please see photos as part of condition report 1567 1st Edition , CATECHISMUS ROMANUS, EC DECRETO CONCILIIJ TRIDENTINI By CATHOLIC CHURCH Illustrated By: Format: Hardcover, Language: Latin Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Published By: Sebald Mayer, Dillingen, Germany Crown octavo (8vo 5+3?8 × 8 137 × 203),Pages 968 ISBN: Foreword by Augsburg Cardinal Otto Truchseß von Waldburg, who founded the Dillinger University. The first German edition of the Roman Catholic Catechism, the manual for the use of parish priests established at the Council of Trent. As the title and introduction explain, it is reprinted by Mayer, in Dillingen - the first press there - with the authority of the church hierarchy and the permission of Paulus Manutius, described glowingly in the introduction as 'doctus in primis Typographus'. Manutius held the papal privilege and printed the first edition of the Catechism in Rome, in 1566. Structured into four parts, it covers faith and the Creed; the sacraments; the ten commandments; and prayer. SKU: BTETM0002407 Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg