Live auction - Lot 925
[Luther]
Theologiae Lutheranae trimembris epitome. De topicis praedicamentis seu principijs Theologiae Lutheranae. De materia praesentium controuersiarum Luther. De successione & concordia.discipulorum Lutheri in confessione August. Proposita Wormaciae durante Colloquio [...].
Antwerp, J. Withagius, 1559
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
8vo: 56 ff. (dampstained).
Mod. boards. Good copy.
Early Antwerp repr. of this anti-Lutheran work by the German theologian F. Staphylus (1512-1564), at first a Protestant and then a Catholic convert. It severely attacked the lack of union in Protestantism, the worship of Luther, and religious subjectivism. Woodcut mark on title. Ref. BT 9127. - Pettegree NB 28460. - Not in Adams (S-1641 = 1558 ed.), STCDutch (BL). Joined: Eisengrein, Martin – Concio egregia et catholica, cur tam multi hodie ad Luteranismum deficiant: utque hisce calamitosis temporibus, adversus satanae tentationes [...] resistendum sit [...] [trsl. from the German Laurentius Surius O.Carth.]. Cologne, M. Cholinus, 1563. 8vo: [8]-183-[1 bl.] pp. (dampstained). Cont. limp vellum (def. at fore-edge). Rare anti-Lutheran sermon. Ref. VD-16 E-78. - Not in Adams, STC German (BL). Prov. Old ownership entry (erased). - Libr. stamp. (2 vol.)