Homiliae in evangelia, qvae in dominicis, et aliis festis diebvs legvntvr per totvm annum: omnes in comitiis imperialibus Wormatiae, & Ratisbonae nuperrimè celebratis, depraedicatae per Ioannem Hofmeistervm ...
1562
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Title
Homiliae in evangelia, qvae in dominicis, et aliis festis diebvs legvntvr per totvm annum: omnes in comitiis imperialibus Wormatiae, & Ratisbonae nuperrimè celebratis, depraedicatae per Ioannem Hofmeistervm ...
Created/published
Antverpiae. In aedibus Ioan. Stelsii. 1562, 1562.
Description
326 [4] bl. ; 8:o
Associated name
Hoffmeister, Johann, 1509-1547.
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Item Details
Call number
FAST ACC 271703 (quarto)
Folger-specific note
Purchase made possible by The Lois Green Schwoerer Fund for Library Acquisitions. From dealer's description:."8vo, ll. 378, [5], text rubricated throughout, woodcut printer's device to title, 17 small hand-coloured woodcut illustrations in the text; 20 coloured initials; woodcut tailpiece on final leaf; lacking front free endpaper; contemporary blind-stamped calf, incorporating astrological signs and fleuron to the design, brass clasps and catches; sympathetically rebacked; a good copy, with the bookplate of the Bibliothek Gutekunst to front pastedown; contemporary annotations in the margins of two pages, forming a minor gloss. Third edition, (first published in 1547 in Ingolstadt), of this important devotional work by a contemporary of Martin Luther, with contemporary marginal annotation and blind- stamped boards. This very attractive copy of Hoffmeister's work includes hand - coloured initials throughout, and has evidence of contemporary use, with occasional marginal annotations. This indication of readership is particularly interesting, because the work comprises Hoffmeister's postils. These commentaries on scripture were representative of the burgeoning Protestant tradition of query and response, which demanded the same of a faithful readership. Hoffmeister (1509-1547) was a leading Augustinian friar and later a hermit who hailed from the same order as Martin Luther, although he devoted his life to defence of his order against Lutheran teaching and to the inner reform of the Church by preaching and writing. His formidable oratorical skills led to invitations to preach at important meetings such as the Diet of Worms (1545) and the Colloquy of Regensburg (1546). He was an accomplished polemicist, as seen here, and he developed sermons and commentaries which responded directly to biblical challenges, and at the same time as he published these in Latin - as here - he developed German translations of his work. As Frymire has written, the portable size of Hoffmeister's works accounted for their popularity and were intended to be an example of form meeting function; readers were encouraged to carry these volumes and respond to them, as a contemporary owner here has clearly done." Ordered from Susanne Schulz-Falster, D9339, 2019-08-20, email quote.
Folger accession
271703