Refutatio horrendae prophanationis coenae Domini : collecta ex euangelio & sinceris antiquae Ecclesiae testimonijs / a Georgio Maiore ; iterum recognita ; cum praefatione Philippi Melanthonis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Major, Georg, 1502-1574.

Contributor:

Melanchthon, Philip, 1497-1560.

Creutzer, Veit, -1578, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

German Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church.

Mass--Early works to 1800.

Mass.

Catholic Church--Controversial literature--Lutheran authors--Early works to 1800.

Lord's Supper--Catholic Church--Controversial literature--Early works to 1800.

Lord's Supper.

Lord's Supper--Catholic Church.

Lutheran authors.

Genre:

Controversial literature.

Penn Provenance:

Bidenbach, Eberhard (inscription)

Bidenbach, Johann (inscription)

Neobolus, Jeremias (former owner) (inscription)

Hochstetter(?), Gottfried(?) Conrad (autograph)

Physical Description:

296 unnumbered pages ; 16 cm (8vo)

Fingerprint:

t.e- r.i. t.s, IoVn (C) 1555 (R)

Place of Publication:

VVitebergae : Ex officina typographica Viti Creutzer, Anno MDLV [1555]

Notes:

Anti-Catholic tract on the Mass by Georg Major, a student of Luther and Melanchthon, and professor at Wittenberg from 1536, with a few brief interruptions, until his death.

Signatures: A¹² B-S⁸.

Without pagination.

Woodcut initials.

Printed marginalia.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy bound with: Beyer, Hartmann. Pro ficticio missae sacrificio Argumenta erronea Sophistarum Pontificiorum, cum Refutationibus eorundem. Magdeburgi : Per Christianum Rhodium, MDLI [1551] -- Wanner, Valentin. De missa iudicium Valentini Vannij pastoris ecclesiae quae est in Candtstatt. [Tübingen : Ulrich Morharts Erben, 1555] -- Major, Georg. De origine et autoritate Verbi Dei & quae Pontificum, Patrum & Conciliorum sit autoritas, admonitio hoc tempore, quo de Concilio congregando agitur, ualde necessaria. Francoforti ad Viadrum : Excudebat Iohannes Eichorn, Anno MDLIIII [1554] -- Heltai, Gáspár. Confessio de mediatore generis humani Iesu Christo uero Deo & homine. VVitebergae : Ex officina Viti Creutzer, Anno MDLV [1555].

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1964.

Penn Libraries copy has ms. inscription ("Post-obitum Clariss: Viri D.D. Eberhardij Bidenbachij Abbatis Bebenhusani hunc libellum ab ipsio F.D.D. Io: Bidenbachio ... accepit Hieremias Neobol[us] Entringensis 2do Maij A[nn]o 97 [i.e. 1597]") recording the gift of this volume from Johann Bidenbach to Jeremias Neobolus (or Neuheller) after the death of Eberhard Bidenbach on verso of front free endpaper.

Penn Libraries copy has partially illegible autograph ("[...] Gottfr.[?] Conr. Hochstetter[?]. Tubing.") on title leaf of first work in volume; partially illegible ms. monograms ("[...]GCH") on front pastedown (dated 1695) and title leaf of third work in volume.

Penn Libraries copy has early ms. inscriptions (quotations and adages in Latin, Greek and German) on front pastedown and front free endpaper.

Penn Libraries copy bound in full contemporary(?) blind-tooled pig over indented, angled-edge wooden boards; each board decorated with a border containing figures of the planets (IVPITER, LVNA, MARS and VENUS, some repeated) surrounding a central rectangular panel; 3 raised bands on spine; remains of 2 leather and metal clasps with metal catchplates; fore-edge marked in ink to show the extent of each included text.

Penn Libraries copy: binding damaged; left board broken and mended; right board damp-stained; some leaves at beginning and end of volume damp-stained.

Cited in:

VD 16 M 2157

OCLC:

46249812