Theologia Germanica in qua continentur articuli de fide, euangelio, virtutibus et sacramentis : quorum materiam iam nostra tempestate controuerti solet.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Luther, Martin, 1483-1546.

Pürstinger, Berthold, 1465-1543.

Breu, Jörg, approximately 1480-1537.

Weissenhorn, Alexander, -1549, printer.

Henry Charles Lea Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Dutch Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church.

Spiritual life--Early works to 1800.

Spiritual life.

Mysticism--Early works to 1800.

Mysticism.

Catholic Church--Doctrines--Early works to 1800.

Genre:

Wooden boards (Binding)

Penn Provenance:

Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909 (autograph) (bookplate) (Lea Library copy)

Reichskartause Buxheim (former owner) (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Ruduhius(?), Joannes (former owner) (inscription, 1574) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Thrummerus, Wulphgangus (former owner) (inscription, 1576) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

444 unnumbered pages ; 32 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Theologia Germanica in qva continentvr articvli de fide, evangelio, virtvtibvs et sacramentis

Theologia Germanica in qua continentur articuli de fide, evangelio, virtutibus et sacramentis

Fingerprint:

r.it tein ncti tiri (C) 1531 (R)

Place of Publication:

Excusum Augustae Vindelicorum : Per Alexandrum Vueyssenhorn, expensis ... Martini Silbereysen, An[no] MDXXXI [1531]

Notes:

An anonymous work, attributed to Berthold Pürstinger, but discovered and published by Martin Luther in 1516.

Imprint from colophon.

First published 1528 in German under title: Tewtsche Theologey.

Signatures: A-Z⁶ a-o⁶.

Without pagination.

Title in red and black within woodcut pictorial border (with red printed captions), attributed to Jörg Breu--De Graaf Antiquarian Booksellers, List 139.

Woodcut initials.

Text printed in double columns; printed marginalia.

Errata on leaf o6r.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Lea Library copy bound in stamped quarter vellum over visible wooden boards with ms. title on spine; evidence of metal clasps which are no longer present; page edges are painted teal.

Lea Library copy has wormhole damage throughout with minor loss of marginal text.

Lea Library copy has the bookplate and autograph, dated 1892, of Henry Charles Lea on front pastedown.

Lea Library copy has ms. notes in pencil on front pastedown and title leaf; an illegible ms. autograph or inscription is on back free end paper; there are a few marginal ms. marks in pencil throughout.

Penn Libraries Culture Class Collection copy bound with: Fabricius, Andreas. Harmonia Confessionis Augustanae doctrinae Euangelicae consensum declarans. Coloniae : Apud Maternum Cholinum, MDLXXXVII [1587].

Penn Libraries copy has ms. ownership inscription of Joannes Ruduhius(?) (struck through) dated "Ao. 74 20 Nouemb." at head of title leaf; ms. ownership inscription ("Carthusiae in Buxheim") on title leaf; ms. ownership inscription of Wulphgangus Thrummerus dated 1576 on title leaf; partially effaced ms. ownership inscription dated 1577 at foot of title leaf.

Penn Libraries copy has some ms. underlines and annotations in brown ink in text.

Penn Libraries copy bound in full blind-stamped pig over indented angled wooden boards; 5 raised bands on spine; ms. titles on spine; spine label with ms. shelf-mark in red ink; 2 leather and metal clasps (1 intact); all edges blue.

Penn Libraries copy: boards, pastedowns, free endpapers, and a few leaves at beginning and end of volume lightly wormed; pinpoint wormhole through leaves in latter half of volume; leaves closely cropped at all margins with damage to ms. marginalia.

Cited in:

Adams, T562

BM STC German, 1455-1600, p. 698

VD 16 P 2924

OCLC:

62217363