HESSELS, Joannes.

De Officio Pii, et Christianae Pacis vere Amantis Viri, exurgente, aut vigente haeresi.Cologne, Maternum Cholinum, 1566.WITH: Declaratio, quod sumptio Eucharistiae sub unica Panis specie, neque Christi praecepto aut institutioni adversetur, neque minùs Fructuosa sit, quàm Communio sub utraque Panis & Vini specie.Cologne, Maternum Cholinum, 1566. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the second title-page. Also with one woodcut illustration and eight decorative woodcut initials from three series. With early ownership inscriptions. Contemporary calf, richly blind-tooled in a panel des...

93, (1), (2 blank) pp; (8), "214" [= 216] ll. VD 16, H-2764 & 2767 (7 copies); Karlsruher Virt. Kat. (10 & 7 copies); OCLC WorldCat. (2 & 3 copies); cf. Adams (1566 Louvain ed. of Declaratio); not in BMC STC German.Two counter-reformation tracts, one a defence of the celebration of the Eucharist and the other a defence of the Papacy, first published in the author's native Louvain one year earlier. Hessels (1522-1566), a theologian who participated in the Council of Trent, attempted throughout his career to counteract Protestantism through both the defence and the reform of the Catholic church, fiercely defending matters such as the Latin mass and papal infallibility and going back to the basics by basing his theology directly on the church Fathers and especially Augustine. Belgica Typographica records no edition of De Officio Pii before Plantin's (1566, like the present edition), but it is said to have first appeared at Louvain in 1565, as did the Declaration. The illustration, in an oval with motto (John 6:52 & 59) and Jesuit device, shows two angels kneeling at an alter with a triptich.With ownership inscriptions by Georg Victor Bixenmeister and the Augustine "Monasterii Hernbergensis." The binding has a panel stamp in the centre of the front board with a man kneeling with the motto "EXURGE PSALTERIVM ET CITHARA" (Psalms 56:9). The binding further shows three rolls, a trefoil and a rosette on the boards, and a lattice pattern stamped on the spine. The title was added (in the eighteenth century?) in two blank spaces. A very good copy. One of the earliest editions of an interesting counter-reformation work.

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