Antwort auff das Buch Osiandri von der Rechtfertigung des Menschen / Durch Magistrum Johannem Pollicarium, Pfarherrn vnd Superintendentem zu Weissenfels.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pollicarius, Johannes, 1524-1584.

Contributor:

Creutzer, Veit, -1578, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

German Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Osiander, Andreas, 1498-1552.

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

Justification (Christian theology).

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

Lutheran Church--Doctrines.

Penn Provenance:

Schermer, Georg (inscription)

Physical Description:

56 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm (4to)

Fingerprint:

2.n. t,ie t.in siqu (C) 1552 (R)

Place of Publication:

Gedruckt zu Wittemberg : Durch Veit Creutzer, MDLII [1552]

Notes:

Refutation of Andreas Osiander's teaching on justification, by Johannes Pollicarius, Lutheran preacher and superintendent in Weissenfeld in Saxony.

Signatures: A-G⁴ (G4 blank).

Without pagination.

Woodcut initial.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy is item no. 20 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 early ms. gift inscription ("In Georgio Schermero p[re]ceptori suo obseruandiss. d[ono] d[edit]") to Georg Schermer on title leaf.

Penn Libraries copy has a few modern ms. bibliographical notes in pencil on front pastedown and front free endpaper; early ms. numeral ("20") in brown ink at head of title leaf.

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.

Cited in:

VD 16 P 4029

OCLC:

32955436