Een eenfalligh Kennedoom af nödtorftelighe articklar vthdraghne aff then Helga schrifft / Laurentius Olai Gestricius. (Coll. 762, Aholansaari Foundation's deposition)

Quire structure: 9xIV⁷² + (IV–1)⁷⁹. Text in one column, on (mostly) 26–33 lines, not ruled. Catchwords frequently used at the foot of each page to indicate the next word when a sentence continues on the next page. Not foliated. Gothic Cursive in one saec. XVI² hand. The first initial of the book has been touched with what looks like red pencil. This may be a later addition, as also the green tint to the outer edges of the block. Titles and rubrics distinguished, if at all, through layout only. A note fol. [47]v (see also the main text on fol. [31]v) indicates that the text was copied in 1580. The Anti-Papist poem mentions the Jesuit Antonio Possevino, active in Sweden in 1577–1580 (Kiiskinen ed. 2010, 25, 27). The texts appear to be copies of printed works, with the possible exception of the Anti-Papist poem. The publication of Eric Falck’s Een Tröstbook is known, but apparently no printed copies survive; Laurentius Olai Gestricius’ catechism is otherwise unknown. He was a teacher in Gävle from 1557 or 1558, then curate of Västerås from 1561 and of Stockholm in 1562, where he died in 1565 (Kiiskinen ed. 2010, 15, 349; Collijn ed. 1927–1938, vol. 2, 324).

A collection of Lutheran theological texts. Contents: A catechetical dialogue by Laurentius Olai Gestricius (Een eenfalligh Kennedoom af nödtorftelighe articklar vthdraghne aff then Helga schrifft, 1560) ([1]r–[55]v) ; The acts of a 1562 synod in Stockholm ([57]r–[59]v) ; Manuale, on confession, absolution and the administering of the Eucharist ([59]v–[62]r) ; An Anti-Papist poem (Een lithen wnderwijsningh fwll medh Papisters wilfarelser) ([62]v–[65]r) ; A spiritual treatise for pregnant women by Eric Falck Lincopensis (Enn Tröstbook för Haffuandhe Quinnor, 1564) ([66]r–[77]v).