Confessio catholicæ fidei christiana
Subtitle: vel potius explicatio quædam confessionis a patribus factæ in Synodo Provinciali, quæ habita est Petrikoviæ, anno Domini millesimo, quingentesimo quinquagesimo primo, mense Maio congregatis ...
Contributors: Patruus, Johannes, active 1555-1557; Behem, Franz, approximately 1500-1582; Sigismund II Augustus, King of Poland, 1520-1572; Catholic Church. Province of Gniezno (Poland). Synodus Provincialis; Van Ess Collection (Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary)
Publisher: J. Patruo bibliopola Posnaniensi imprimi procurante, excudebat F. Behem
Published: 1557
Place of publication: Moguntiae [Mainz]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Doctrines; Catholic authors; Counter-Reformation; Early works to 1800; Catholic Church
Other titles: Confessio Catholicæ religionis
Notes: Place and printer from colophon, recto of terminal leaf.

First printed Cracow, 1553.

Many leaves, incl. 332, misnumbered; duplicated and dropped leaves follow 186: 188-189, 187-198, 201 ...

Signatures: *⁶ A-Gg⁶ Hh⁸ Ii-Iii⁶ +-4+⁶.

Vignettes, crowned Polish eagles with cypher of Sigismund Augustus, on title and folio [3] recto; portrait of Sigismund Augustus and royal arms (quarterly, Lithuania and Poland, the latter with cypher) verso of title.

Errata on last leaf.

Includes index.

Burke Library copy: Imperfect: t.p. and its conjugate (leaf [6] at beginning) wanting.

Burke Library copy: Binding: Limp vellum; ties removed; spine title in MS: Confessio Catholicæ religionis.

Burke Library copy: Some marginal annotations throughout.

BN, 73:984.

Mansell, 735:457.

Adams, P-1270.

VD16 H 5140

Gatch. Van Ess catalog, A-1675