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Christeliicken waerseggher : de principale stucken van t'Christen geloof en Leuen int cort begrijpende : met een rolle der deugtsaemheyt daer op dienende : ende een schildt-wacht teghen de valsche waersegghers, tooueraers, etc.

David, Jan, 1545?-1613, Galle, Cornelis, 1576-1650, ill, Moretus, Jan, 1543-1610, printer, Plantijnsche Drukkerij, publisher · 1603 · T'Antwerpen : Inde Plantijnsche Druckerije, by Ian Moerentorf · 136 pictures

A Dutch-language Catholic devotional and emblem book by the Jesuit Jan David, engraved by Cornelis Galle and printed by Jan Moretus at the Plantin press in Antwerp in 1603, aimed at lay readers warned against fortune-tellers and magic. The copperplates set key-lettered scenes of divination, sorcery, allegorical virtues and village life in one frame, useful for figure groups, occult props and diagram-style picture keys.

Divination · Christian life · Emblems · Emblems, Latin · Emblems, Dutch · Emblems, French

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