[EMBROIDERED BINDING] Schola Crucis et Tessera Christianismi. En ret Christlig Undervissning om det gode Kaars,

som er alle troe Christne deris rette Hofffarffve, huor nyttelig oc fructbarlig det er, oc huorledis en huer skal sig der udi skicke og forholde…. Oc nu paa ny igjen offverseet, oc med nogle Capitteler formeeret, oc ført udi rictig Ordning … Kiøbenhaffn : Georg Lamprecht, 1652. Duodecimo (150 x 95 mm), contemporary embroidered binding, the copper-coloured silk ground decorated with silver stumpwork floral motifs overall, the upper cover with a central cartouche embroidered in coloured silks depicting a bird in foliage, the lower cover with central cartouche also embroidered in silk and possibly depicting the Roman goddess Flora, lower cover with remnant original ties; title leaf printed in red and black (small perforation, nicks at edges, old stamp of Halden Folkebibliotek, Norway); pp. [40], 757 (lacking the last leaf, i.e. with p. 758 recto and colophon verso); text in Danish; the binding exhibits even wear and has an expected amount of fading; preliminaries with some minor edge tears and dog-eared lower corners, occasional pale water stains or browning, last leaf trimmed at fore-edge with loss of some letters; housed in a custom clamshell box.

A Lutheran book of religious instruction in an exquisite mid-seventeenth-century Danish embroidered binding.