Adriaan Poirters / Andries Van der Schueren / Egide de...

1. Adriaan Poirters: The Mirror of Piety increased, improved, and enriched with printing, poetry, and moral teachings, by P. Adrianus Poirters, priest of the Society of Jesus. III. Druck. Antwerp, by Jacobus Wooijns, in Ster, 1674. With Privilege from the King. 8vo: (14 with title plate)272(15)p. Original limp parchment. It lies loose around it. Binding fair. The booklet thus lies loose in the binding. Complete with the beautiful engraved text images. Paper sometimes somewhat discolored or with a small stain. On the title page an old faint stamp impression. 2. Andries Van der Schueren (Translator) / Egide de Witte (Translator), Michael Heylbrouck (Printer): The New Testament of our Lord Jesus Christ: translated according to the common Latin translation, provided with short annotations, and proper tables and land-survey maps. Second edition. Tot Gendt, by Franciscus and Dominicus van der Ween, at the Kooremerct, City Printing House, 1721. With approbations. 8vo: (XXIV with title plate)689(1)p. Original leather, of which the spine and front cover are damaged or missing a piece of leather. Binding fair. With a fold-out map. Some tearing. Paper sometimes lightly discolored or with a spot. ** Adriaan Poirters (Oisterwijk, baptised 2 November 1605 – Mechelen, 4 July 1674) was a Brabant Jesuit, counter-reformation poet and prose writer. Adriaan Poirters was baptised on 2 November 1605 in the Sint-Petrus’-Bandenkerk in Oisterwijk. He was a son of an innkeeper at the church in Oisterwijk, called De Ploeg. In 1618 or 1619 he began Latin studies at the Jesuit college in ’s-Hertogenbosch, then continued at the Jesuit college of Marchiennes and later went to Leuven, where he studied philosophy and theology. In 1638 he was ordained a priest, entrusted with pastoral care in Dunkirk to later become prefect of studies in Roermond and thereafter in Mechelen. Poirters was active as a teacher, spiritual writer, and author of poetry often with a moralizing content. He is thus considered the Catholic counterpart to Jacob Cats. His most famous work is Het Masker van de Wereldt, published in Antwerp in 1646, and since reprinted more than sixty times. Adriaan Poirters is known as a strong advocate of the Counter-Reformation. He died on 4 July 1674 in Mechelen, possibly due to the plague. Through the initiative of chaplain Anton Huijbers, in 1926 a statue of Adriaan Poirters was erected in Oisterwijk. The bronze statue, crafted by Aloïs de Beule, was placed in 1926 on the Marktplein. Today it can be found on the Kerkplein, opposite the Sint-Petrus’-Bandenkerk. In September 1934, among others, Henri de Greeve helped establish a Catholic publishing house named after Poirters in Eindhoven, the Poirtersfonds, effectively a book club. The Poirtersfonds was dissolved during the war.

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