Christeliicken waerseggher
Subtitle: 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.
By: deur den E. Heer P. Ioannes Dauid, Priester der Societeijt Iesu
Contributors: Galle, Cornelis, 1576-1650, ill.; Moretus, Jan, 1543-1610, printer; Plantijnsche Drukkerij
Publisher: Inde Plantijnsche Druckerije, by Ian Moerentorf
Published: 1603
Place of publication: T'Antwerpen
Language: dut
Number of pages: 372
Subjects: Divination -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- Early works to 1800.; Christian life -- Early works to 1800.; Emblems -- Early works to 1800.; Emblems, Latin -- Belgium -- 17th century.; Emblems, Dutch -- Belgium -- 17th century.; Emblems, French -- Belgium -- 17th century.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Christelijken waarzegger; Rolle der deugdsaemheydt, tot naer-volghinghe Christi op den Christelijcken waerseggher dienende; Schild-wacht tot seker waerschovwinghe teghen de valsche waersegghers; Schild-wacht tot seker vvaerschovvvinghe teghen de valsche waersegghers
Notes: Engraved title-page.

"Schild-wacht tot seker vvaerschovvvinghe teghen de valsche waersegghers ..." has separate title-page, pagination, and register, with imprint: "T'Antvverpen : Inde Plantijnsche Druckerije, by Jan Moerentorf, MDCII [1602]"; has engraved printer's device.

"Rolle der deugdsaemheydt, tot naer-volghinghe Christi op den Christelijcken waerseggher dienende" has separate divisional title-page with engraved illustration.

Signatures: *-2* A-Z a-z 2A, ²A-E F.

Leaf 2A3 is engraved, printed on recto only, and contains rotating disc.

100 leaves of plates with engraved emblems by Cornelis Galle.

Initials; printed marginal notes; tail-pieces.

Includes index.

Lacking plate 100.

Provenance: Bookplate of Ed Ipers on front paste-down; "Thomas Quirynsson[?] vander Drilt[?] an[n]o 1653" inscribed in ink on title-page; printed bookseller's descriptions affixed to front paste-down.

Binding: Contemporary gilt- and blind-tooled calf.

McGeary & Nash. Emblem books at the University of Illinois, D13

Backer-Sommervogel, II 1846

Emblem captions in Latin, Dutch, and French.