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Pamphlet against almanacs

COOLHAES, Caspar Jansz.
Trouwe waerschouwinge voor den schandelijcken abuysen offte misbruycken der Almanacken, de welcke (gelijk alle andere valsche Godes-diensten) uyt de schatcamer der verscheyden Pausen ghecomen zijn, ende daerom niet minder) Reformation van doen hebben als de kercken staende vol afgodische beelden, outaren ende dergelijcken ...

With oval woodcut printer's device on the title: 'Ick Paulus hebbe gheplant en Apollo genet maer God geeft den wasdom'.

With oval woodcut printer's device on the title: 'Ick Paulus hebbe gheplant en Apollo genet maer God geeft den wasdom'.

With oval woodcut printer's device on the title: 'Ick Paulus hebbe gheplant en Apollo genet maer God geeft den wasdom'.



Gouda, for sale in the bookshop of Jacobus Migoen, 1607. 4to. Modern marbled wrappers. With oval woodcut printer's device on the title: 'Ick Paulus hebbe gheplant en Apollo genet maer God geeft den wasdom'. 20 lvs. with the last blank.

First edition of this pamphlet in which Coolhaes warns against the countless editions of 'Almanacs' as still containing many heretical elements and Roman Catholic superstitions such as ample material on the saints. He not only opposes these superstitions, but also gives alternatives for the contents of 'reformed almanacs' (cf. for examplke Knuttel 1561).
Caspar Coolhaes (1534-1615) was a minister in Siegen, Deventer, Gorinchem and Leiden (1574) and is, together with Coornhert and Jan van Hout considered to be a precursor of the 'Remonstranten', the more moderate and tolerant Calvinists. In 1575 he was appointed as the first professor at the newly founded Leiden University. He undoubtedly played an important role in the establishment of the Reformation in the Northern Netherlands, especially after the declaration of independence.

Good copy of this important pamphlet.
NNBW I, cols. 632-6; Biogr. lex. gesch. Ned. protest. IV, p. 100-2; Knuttel 1394; cf. Moes Burger IV, 120-1; Tiele 609; only one copy mentioned in the Dutch Central Catalogue (NCC).

Related Subjects: Almanacs & Calendars  Pamphlets  Reformation 

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