LUTHER (Martin)

Etliche fürneme Schrifften: Darinn die reine Christliche Lehr und bekanntnuss vom heiligen Abendmal unsers Herrn Jesu christi begriffen ist; Wider die alten und neuen Schwarmgeister, den einfeltigen zu unterricht und warnung, zusammen getruckt, zu Nürmber

(Bound with:) HESSHUSEN (Tileman). Bekanntnusz Vom heiligen Nachtmal des Herrn Jesu Christi. Nuremberg, (Paul Kauffmann), 1597.

8vo (167 x 105mm). [195]ff; [16]pp. Contemporary vellum, covers panelled with triple fillets, fleurons at corners, central oval stamp of the crucifixion, upper covers with ownership initials “BBW” and date “1597”, spine ruled in compartments with a fleuron in each, title lettered in ink, 1597.

£1,250.00

I & II. Controversial literature. Eucharist, real presence, Lord’s Supper.

II. Dated Heidelberg 1559. Tileman Hesshusen (1527-88) was a Lutheran theologian. Salloch“A controversial and very acrimonius Reformation work which connects the names of the most militant persons of the Protestant Church. Hesshusen (1527-1588) was a strong adherent of Luther’s dogmatic ideas, and at one time a pupil and friend of Melanchthon; his irrascible temper cost him the loss of every position, professorial or clerical, he ever gained.“

I. VD16 L 3601 (BSB & Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek only). II. VD16 H3007.

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