Author: GRENADE Luis de Grenade :
Title: Catéchisme et introduction au Symbole de la foy . traittant de l'Oeuvre .. de la création du monde, de l'excellence de nostre foy et religion chrétienne, du mystère de nostre rédemption et de la certitude de la venue de Jésus-Christ, contre l'opinion des infidèles . divisée... en quatre parties ; Augmentée et enrichie par l'autheur... d'un second livre faisant la cinquiesme partie d'icelle... plus d'un traitté .. d'enseigner les mystères de nostre foy... aux infidèles...
Description: Paris, Robert Foüet, 1613, in-folio, 34 x 22 cm, xiv nn + 949 pp, printed in 2 columns (1898 col.), many fine woodcut initials, 1 ill. on p. 209 (a whale); 19-th green half roan, smooth gilt decorated spine, marbled edges, small loss of paper on p. 701 without loss of text. The first catechism was published in 1566 after 20 years of preparation by the Council of Trent. Up till Saint Thomas in the 13th century the transmission of christian belief was entirely oral. The first French translation of Luis de Grenade's (a dominican monk, 1504-1588) catechism was published in Paris (1587), in Lyons in 1592. In all 35 French editions of this catechism were published. .

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