Rob Faesen John Arblaster

The Evangelical Pearl (Middle Dutch: Die evangelische peerle or Die grote evangelische peerle; also translated as The Pearl of the Gospel) is an anonymous sixteenth-century work of Dutch mystical and devotional literature. The shorter Die evangelische peerle was first printed at Utrecht in 1535. The larger Die grote evangelische peerle was printed at Antwerp in 1537/1538 by Henrick Peetersen van Middelburch, in an edition prepared through the Carthusians of Cologne. The work is generally treated…