Beschrijving
Amsterdam (Amstelredam), Casparus Loots-Man en de Weduw' van Jacobus Konynenbergh, 1694, large 4to., full parchment spitsel binding with handwritten title on spine (twice, first title written over in darker ink), foliated pages: [5]+258+[3]+232+[12] ff., smudged but intact parchment, some pages are coming loose, darkened edges, some waterstains, some damaged corners, the flyleaves on the inside of the coverboards show some wear. In the fist section of the book there are lots of sentences underlined, the rest of the book has clear pages.
In two parts, each part has it's own titlepage with different printer's mark: ‘In Oratione Perdurantes’ (I) and ‘Heft u oogen op ende seit den oogst is ryp'(II), with engraved frontispiece portraying Ursinus, Pareus, Hommius and Spiljardus (who all made contributions to this book), and engraved titlepage (Holstein sculpsit). Also with some lovely decorative elements: initials, head- and tailpieces.
An ownership signature has been crossed out on the titlepage.
Ursinus (1534-1583) was a sixteenth-century German Reformed theologian and Protestant reformer. He became the leading theologian of the Reformed Protestant movement of the Palatinate. He is best known as the principal author and interpreter of the Heidelberg Catechism.
