Council of Trent, Catechismus, Rome, Paolo Manuzio, 1566, nineteenth-century calf

Council of Trent

Catechismus, ex decreto Concilii Tridentini, ad parochos, Pii Quinti Pont. Max. iussu editus. Rome: in aedibus Populi Romani, Paolo Manuzio, 1566

folio (304 x 196mm.), woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut initials, early nineteenth-century calf, occasional light staining, joints broken

FIRST EDITION of the new catechism authorised by the Council of Trent, mostly written by Carlo Borromeo who believed that confession and penance should be at the heart of contemporary Catholicism.

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Edit16 12057; Renouard 200/5