Council of Trent, Catechismus, Liège, 1568, contemporary blind-stamped pigskin

COUNCIL OF TRENT. Catechismus ex decreto Concilii Tridentini, ad parochos, Pii V pontificis maximi jussu editus. Liège: Walther Morbier for Henri Hoyoux, 1568

EARLY EDITION OF THE OFFICIAL CATHOLIC CATECHISM COMPILED AT THE COUNCIL OF TRENT, FROM THE OLDEST FRANCISCAN CONVENT IN GERMANY.

This volume belonged to the Franciscan Abbey at Sefflingen, now Söflingen, part of Ulm in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It was the oldest, and most important, nunnery of this order in Germany. In the thirteenth century, the monastery had ownership over villages reaching into the Diocese of Augsburg. During the Protestant Reformation, the abbey had the support of Charles V in defending Catholicism against the Imperial City of Ulm, which had accepted Protestantism in 1529. The abbey was given a seat at the Imperial Diet in 1566 and 1576.