MELANCHTHON, Philip. Loci communes thelologici recens collecti & recogniti . Wittenberg: Josef Klug, 1535.
MELANCHTHON, Philip. Loci communes thelologici recens collecti & recogniti . Wittenberg: Josef Klug, 1535. 8 o (151 x 96 mm). Woodcut title border of the second work possibly by Lucas Cranach (Stain in lower margin of A2, B1-2 and C1, some worming at end occasionally catching letters.) Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, clasps and catches (discolored at edges and spine). Provenance : BEATUS RHENANUS (1485-1547), Alsatian humanist, religious reformer and classical scholar (presentation inscription from Peter Brubach to him on the title of the first work ; Rhenanus's inscription dated 1535 on pastedown; his autograph marginal annotations in the second work (some cropped); Paul Langeard (pencil note dated 1963 on front pastedown); acquired from Laurence Witten (booklabel), 1974. A SUPERB PRESENTATION COPY OF THE EXPANDED SECOND EDITION, inscribed by the Frankfurt printer Peter Brubach to Beatus Rhenanus. Rhenanus worked in Strassburg for the printer Mathias Schurer and made the acquaintance of the great Alsatian humanists, including Jakob Wimpfeling, Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg and Sebastian Brant In 1511, he relocated to Basel, where he befriended Desiderius Erasmus and played an active role in the publishing enterprises of Johann Froben. In 1526 he returned to Schlettstadt where he supervised the printing of many of Erasmus's works. Peter Brubach's press was in Frankfurt, and issued numerous works by Melancthon, Erasmus, and other humanists. This is the second edition of the Loci communes , containing important additions and changes, together with a 16-page dedication to King Henry VIII of England. This is one of the rare books to have escaped Beatus Rhenanus's library at Sélestat, which is the finest North European humanist library to have survived intact. Adams M-1170. [ Bound with :] MELANCHTHON, Philip, Martin LUTHER, et al. Theologicae propositiones vitebergae disputatae . Wittenberg, 1534. 8 o . Woodcut title border. FIRST EDITION. Philip Hofer ascribed the woodcut border to Lucas Cranach
MELANCHTHON, Philip. Loci communes thelologici recens collecti & recogniti . Wittenberg: Josef Klug, 1535.
MELANCHTHON, Philip. Loci communes thelologici recens collecti & recogniti . Wittenberg: Josef Klug, 1535. 8 o (151 x 96 mm). Woodcut title border of the second work possibly by Lucas Cranach (Stain in lower margin of A2, B1-2 and C1, some worming at end occasionally catching letters.) Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, clasps and catches (discolored at edges and spine). Provenance : BEATUS RHENANUS (1485-1547), Alsatian humanist, religious reformer and classical scholar (presentation inscription from Peter Brubach to him on the title of the first work ; Rhenanus's inscription dated 1535 on pastedown; his autograph marginal annotations in the second work (some cropped); Paul Langeard (pencil note dated 1963 on front pastedown); acquired from Laurence Witten (booklabel), 1974. A SUPERB PRESENTATION COPY OF THE EXPANDED SECOND EDITION, inscribed by the Frankfurt printer Peter Brubach to Beatus Rhenanus. Rhenanus worked in Strassburg for the printer Mathias Schurer and made the acquaintance of the great Alsatian humanists, including Jakob Wimpfeling, Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg and Sebastian Brant In 1511, he relocated to Basel, where he befriended Desiderius Erasmus and played an active role in the publishing enterprises of Johann Froben. In 1526 he returned to Schlettstadt where he supervised the printing of many of Erasmus's works. Peter Brubach's press was in Frankfurt, and issued numerous works by Melancthon, Erasmus, and other humanists. This is the second edition of the Loci communes , containing important additions and changes, together with a 16-page dedication to King Henry VIII of England. This is one of the rare books to have escaped Beatus Rhenanus's library at Sélestat, which is the finest North European humanist library to have survived intact. Adams M-1170. [ Bound with :] MELANCHTHON, Philip, Martin LUTHER, et al. Theologicae propositiones vitebergae disputatae . Wittenberg, 1534. 8 o . Woodcut title border. FIRST EDITION. Philip Hofer ascribed the woodcut border to Lucas Cranach
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