Formula Reformationis [...] Statibus Ecclesiasticis in Comitijs Augustanis ad deliberandum proposita.

Folio: [2]-21 ff. (lacking final blank; toned, final f. underlaid).

Cont. blind-decorated calf, gilt titled spine (rubbed, rebacked). Good copy.

The famous Augsburg Interim of 1548 drawn up for Charles V by a commission headed by Michael Heldring (then bishop of Mainz), who represented the Catholic point of view, by the Erasmian Julius von Pflug and by John Agricola, both moderate Lutherans. The Formula contains Imperial proposals for a reform of the non-doctrinal aspects of the Church: the office of the clergy, ceremonies and the like. Woodcut on title (Charles V between the Pillars of Hercules). Ref. VD-16 D-974. - STC German (BL) 349. - Not in Adams, BnF. Prov. Numerous reader’s marks and a few old annotations. - Long family note dated 1622 on last p. Bound after: Id. - Sacrae Caesareae Maiestatis Declaratio, quomodo in negocio religionis per Imperium usque ad definitionem Concilij generalis uiuendum sit, in Comitijs Augustanis XV. Maij, Anno M.D.XLVIII. proposita, & publicata, & ab omnibus Imperij ordinibus recepta. Mainz, I. Schoeffer, 1549. [1]-27 ff. Official annunciation of the Augsburg Interim of 1548. Identical woodcut on title. Ref. VD-16 D-956. - Not in Adams, BnF, STC German.