Defensio doctrinae de bonis operibus, contra sectam Martini Luteri / tyrocinium Georgii Vicelii Zelotae.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Witzel, Georg, 1501-1573.

Contributor:

Quentel, Johann, -approximately 1551, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

German Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Good works (Theology)--Early works to 1800.

Good works (Theology).

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

Lutheran Church.

Lutheran Church--Controversial literature--Catholic authors.

Penn Provenance:

Ménars, Jean-Jacques Charron, marquis de, 1643-1718 (armorial binding) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

101 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 16 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Defensio doctrinae de bonis operibvs, contra sectam Martini Luteri

Doctrinae bon. operum, defensio.

Fingerprint:

c.2. t.t, s.e- fuob (3) 1549 (R)

Place of Publication:

Coloniae : Ex officina Ioannis Quentel, Anno MDXLIX [1549]

Notes:

A defense of the Roman Catholich theology of good works against that of Lutheranism, by Georg Witzel. Witzel was an early student and follower of Luther, who remained loyal to the Roman Church, but held a moderating position between Luther and the Pope.

Signatures: A-F⁸ G⁴.

Leaf G4 is blank.

Woodcut initials.

Printed marginalia.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy bound with: Witzel, Georg. Coaceruatio locorum vtriusque Testamenti de absoluta necessitate bonorum à Fide operum. Coloniae [i.e. Cologne] : Ex officina Ioannis Quentel, Anno MDXLVIII [1548].

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1956.

Penn Libraries copy bound in armorial binding of Jean-Jacques Charron, marquis de Ménars: full calf; boards triple-ruled in gold with a rosette at each corner; Charron's arms with crown and supports, all within a circle, stamped in gold centrally on each board; 5 raised, gold-ruled bands on spine; gold-tooled spine panels; title ("WICELII DE BONIS OPERIB") stamped in gold on spine; all edges red.

Penn Libraries copy has ms. shelf-mark(?) ("3.C.P.T.I.2.22[?]") on front pastedown; ms. note in Dutch(?) in pencil identifying the arms on the binding as those of "President Charron de Maenars" on front free endpaper.

Cited in:

VD 16 W 4004

OCLC:

43478180