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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 4614004, member: 2844&quot;]It is stunning, E.L. And you&#039;re right, it looks more like a Protestant bible, with all those engravings. Maybe it is the influence of the Protestant north where he lived? </p><p><br /></p><p>Pieter Paets, the publisher, was a Catholic himself. There were more Catholics in Amsterdam, and for quite some time they were allowed to be Catholic as long as they didn&#039;t openly show and practice their faith. </p><p>So Paets could print the bible in Amsterdam, but it is unlikely that he could have sold it in his own bookshop in Amsterdam. It was probably sold in the Catholic south, or through northern underground churches like &quot;Ons&#039; Lieve Heer op Solder&quot; in Amsterdam.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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