Oratio Ded. Athanasio Episcopo Alexandrino / ... a D. Christophoro Pezelio.
1573
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Title
Oratio Ded. Athanasio Episcopo Alexandrino / ... a D. Christophoro Pezelio.
Created/published
Witebergae : [Johannes Crato], 1573.
Description
134 pages ; 16 cm
Associated name
Pezel, Christoph, 1539-1604, author.
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Call number
FAST ACC 271688 (quarto)
Folger-specific note
Bound with Bibs 366844-366847 Purchase made possible by The Kathrine Dulin Folger and Family Acquisitions Endowment. From dealer's description: "[Lutheranism] [Wittenberg, University of]: Sammelband of five sixteenth-century pamphlets. These comprise: Christoph Pezel, 'Oratio de D. Athanasio Episcopo Alexandrino' (1573); Burkhard Matthesius, 'Oratio de S. Martyre Iesu Christi Anna Burgio Tholosate, iurisc. clariss. &c.' (1573); Michael Slavata, 'Orationes duae [...] una de legibus, altera de Hussiticis motibus in Boemia' (1572); 'Constitutiones imperatorum veterum, Theodosii Secundi, et Iustiniani Primi, continentes [...] prohibitionem severam, ne libri haereticorum aliud sententium habeantur aut spargantur' (1568); Johannes Sommer, 'Oratio, qua exponitur argumentum, et multiplex usus trium dialogorum S. Theodoreti' (1573). Wittenberg, (I,IV) Johannes Crato [Johann I Krafft], (II,V) Johannes Schwertel, (III) Johannes Lufft. 1568-1573. 5 works in 1 vol., 8vo. (16 cms. x 10.5 cms.), pp. [2] 133 [1]; [104]; [48]; [24]; [48]. Fourth work with facing Greek and Latin text. Light browning, very good, bound in contemporary vellum wrappers, MS shelf mark. Last work with contemporary inscription as described below. An interesting sammelband of five sixteenth-century works, showing life and activity at the Lutheran university of Wittenberg, in the Counter- Reformation and at a time of dogmatic controversy between Reformed theologians. Authors are from present-day Germany, Bohemia and Transylvania. The first pamphlet contains a lecture given at Wittenberg on 30 June 1573. The important scholar Christoph Pezel (1539-1604) speaks on the 4th-cent. St. Athanasius of Alexandria, who did dogmatic battle against Arians. The second pamphlet is a speech given at the university on 3 September 1573, on the trial and execution in Paris of the Protestant jurist Anne du Bourg (1521-1559). The author, Burkhard Matthesius, was dean of the university's college of philosophy. The third contains two lectures given by the rector of the university, one on laws, the other on the Hussites in Bohemia. Michael Slavata, author, was himself a Bohemian nobleman, and a correspondent of Sir Philip Sidney. The fourth includes early church law against owning and disseminating heretical texts, taken from Justinian's Corpus Juris Civilis. The last pamphlet is a speech on the theology of St. Theodoret, given, according to the title- page, for the understanding and judgment of recent as well as ancient controversies. The author, Johannes Sommer, was a notable scholar from Transylvania, of Saxon heritage. Our copy of this last includes a gift inscription (cropped) and in same hand provision of additional author information. The name of the giftee has been overwritten by another, rendering both very difficult to read. It is quite possible that, as is often the case, the gift was authorial. 1. USTC 680104, VD 16 P 2116. OCLC (03/17) shows 2 copies outside mainland Europe (Concordia Seminary and National Library of Israel). 2. USTC 680343, VD 16 M 1408. Uncommon in mainland Europe, with Concordia Seminary and BL outside. 3. USTC 681149, VD 16 S 6641. Uncommon in mainland Europe, with Concordia Seminary outside. 4. USTC 625024, VD 16 O 1405. Uncommon in continental Europe, no copies located outside. 5. USTC 681054, VD 16 S 6996. Uncommon in mainland Europe, and only located in Concordia Seminary outside."|Ordered from Leo Cadogan Rare Books Ltd, D9353, 2019-10-07, Cat. October 2019, item 40
Folger accession
271688