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