Von[n] der Gerechtigkeit die für Gott gilt : Wider die newe alcumistische Theologiam Andreae Osiandri / Justus Menius.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Menius, Justus, 1499-1558.

Contributor:

Stürmer, Gervasius, active 1547-1560, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

German Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Osiander, Andreas, 1498-1552.

Osiander, Andreas.

Justification (Christian theology)--Early works to 1800.

Justification (Christian theology).

Physical Description:

156 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm (4to)

Fingerprint:

s.er chor i-ck dada (C) 1552 (A)

Place of Publication:

Zu Erffurdt : Trückts Geruasius Sthürmer ..., 1552.

Notes:

Justus Menius was one of the most outspoken opponents of Andreas Osiander and his view of justification. Menius had also initiated a public censure of Osiander published the same year as this tract.

Place of printing and printer's name from colophon on leaf T4r, which reads: Zu Erffurdt trückts Geruasius Sthürmer, zum bunten lawen, bey S. Paul.

Signatures: A⁶ B-T⁴.

Without pagination.

Title in red and black.

Woodcut initial.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy is item no. 2 in a volume of 20 mid-16th-century German Lutheran works (including 1 broadside) opposing the theology of Andreas Osiander bound together as 21 hand-numbered items.

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1956.

Penn Libraries copy has a few modern ms. bibliographical notes in pencil on front pastedown and front free endpaper; early ms. numeral ("2") in brown ink at head of title leaf; a few early ms. underlines and marginal notes in brown ink in text.

Penn Libraries copy bound in contemporary full blind-tooled pig over indented angled-edge wooden boards; left board has central panel with image of Judith carrying a sword and Holofernes' head (with caption: HOLOFERNI CAPVT ABST PER MA IVD 1560) above date 1565, surrounded by a border of smaller rectangular images: Christ (with caption: DATA EST MICHI OM), King David (DE FRVCTV VENTRI [with N reversed]), St. Paul (with caption: APPARVIT BENIGNI [with Ns reversed]), St. John the Baptist (with caption: ECCE ANGNVS [sic] DEI [with Ns reversed]); right board has central panel image of Lucretia (signed: C E[?] 1560 above caption: LVCRETIA MORTEM SIBI ADSCIVIT[?]), surrounded by a similar border of smaller rectangular images; 3 raised bands on spine; 2 leather-and-metal clasps (1 intact) with metal catchplates; evidence of chaining at head of right board.

Penn Libraries copy: a few wormholes in boards, pastedowns and endpapers.

Penn Libraries copy: leaves A2-A3 bound in out of order after leaf B2 (ms. note in pencil regarding this error at foot of leaf A2v).

Cited in:

VD 16 M 4591

OCLC:

65565392