[Den Bosch. Church of St. Catharina] Cort ondervviis

Christiani Philomarij voor Gerardus Liuio woorden-dienaer tot Nieumeghen, streckende tot beschermenisse van seeckere beelden ghestelt in een glaese veynster, der parochie kercke van S. Catharina binnen de stadt van t'Shertoghen-Bossche, van weghen mijn eerwaerdichhste Heers Heere Gisbertvs Masivs (...) de welcke onder den naem Gerardi Liuij onverstandlijck ghelastert worden in een boecxken ghenaemt Bericht van de behoorlijcke en onbehoorlijcke eere der gheluck-saligher Maghet Maria. 's Hertogenbosch, "inde Kerckstrate ten huyse van Jan van Turnhout", 1613, (72) p., with engraved portrait of bishop Masius, woodcut endpiece and vignette on final page, plain contemp. overlapping vellum, small 8vo (14 x 11 cm).

Bookblock sl. moulded along fore-edge margin, resulting in frayed lvs. at the beginning, final 2 lvs. dam. with some loss of the letterpress text and part of the colophon. Extremely rare Den Bosch imprint, only 2 copies in PiCarta. The booklet by Christianus Philomarius is directed against the aforementioned Bericht (...) and its author Gerard Lievens (c. 1570-1636), published in Nijmegen one year earlier, in 1612 because of statues exhibited at the church of St. Catharina in Den Bosch. Construction of this church, (also the Sint Cathrien, Kruiskerk or Kruisherenkerk) originally started in 1533.