Reformation Sammelband

Together, 5 works in one volume, small 8vo (5 7/8 x 3 3/4 in.; 148 x 98 mm), comprising: John Calvin, Interim adultero Germanum. Cui adiecta est. Vera Christianae pacificationis, & ecclesiae reformandae ratio. [Geneva?] 1549. Woodcut initials, with final blank S8. — Matthias Flacius Illyricus, Quod hoc tempore nulla penitus mutatio in religione sit in gratiam impiorum facienda. [Magdeburg: Hans Walther], 1549. Woodcut initials, with terminal blanks B7–8. (VD16 F1471) — Caspar Creuziger, De Iudiciis Piarum Synodorum Sententia, initio enarrationes Symboli Niceni exposita. Wittenberg: Hans Lufft, 1548. Title within a fine woodcut border. (VD16 C5846) — Philipp Melanchthon, De Rebus Adiaphoris epistola concionatorum Hamburgensium. [Magdeburg: Michael Lotter, (1549). With terminal blanks C3–4, some neat undescoring. (VD16 E1673) — Church of England, Regiae maiest. Angliae &c. Ma[n]datorum epitome, ex praescripto, ad subditos suos, tam sacris addictos, quam̀ laicos. Ex anglico sermone in latinum conuersa. [Europe, no printer] 1548. (STC 10094 [though not strictly an STC book, being printed abroad in Latin]; VD16 E1330). Contemporary German blind-rolled pigskin, outer border of medallion-portraits including Erasmus, Melanchthon, and Luther, central panle stamped with owner's initials IHT and the date 1549; a bit soiled. 

Furstliche Hofbiblithek, Donaueschingen (stamps)

Together, 5 works in one volume, small 8vo (5 7/8 x 3 3/4 in.; 148 x 98 mm), comprising: John Calvin, Interim adultero Germanum. Cui adiecta est. Vera Christianae pacificationis, & ecclesiae reformandae ratio. [Geneva?] 1549. Woodcut initials, with final blank S8. — Matthias Flacius Illyricus, Quod hoc tempore nulla penitus mutatio in religione sit in gratiam impiorum facienda. [Magdeburg: Hans Walther], 1549. Woodcut initials, with terminal blanks B7–8. (VD16 F1471) — Caspar Creuziger, De Iudiciis Piarum Synodorum Sententia, initio enarrationes Symboli Niceni exposita. Wittenberg: Hans Lufft, 1548. Title within a fine woodcut border. (VD16 C5846) — Philipp Melanchthon, De Rebus Adiaphoris epistola concionatorum Hamburgensium. [Magdeburg: Michael Lotter, (1549). With terminal blanks C3–4, some neat undescoring. (VD16 E1673) — Church of England, Regiae maiest. Angliae &c. Ma[n]datorum epitome, ex praescripto, ad subditos suos, tam sacris addictos, quam̀ laicos. Ex anglico sermone in latinum conuersa. [Europe, no printer] 1548. (STC 10094 [though not strictly an STC book, being printed abroad in Latin]; VD16 E1330). Contemporary German blind-rolled pigskin, outer border of medallion-portraits including Erasmus, Melanchthon, and Luther, central panle stamped with owner's initials IHT and the date 1549; a bit soiled.
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Five scarce early Reformation tractates, beautifully preserved. The last item is the Latin version of Edward VI's injunction of July 31, 1547, requiring that copies of the Great Bible and of Erasmus's Paraphrases be placed in every parish church and that church services be held in English. This injunction marked the beginning of the Protestant Reformation in England.