Strasbourg: Christan Egenolff the Elder, 1530.
First edition of perhaps the first manual on warfare written and published specifically in preparation for Reformation-related conflict. Jakob Preuss was chief military advisor to John Frederick I, later Elector of Saxony and incipient coleader of the highly ambitious Schmalkaldic League, a military alliance.....
Florence: Lorenzo Torrentino, 1551.
The remarkable case of young Margaretha Weiss [1529-?], a girl from the village of Rode outside of Speyer, who, for three years following her tenth birthday, reportedly neither ate nor drank, yet seemed to grow more or less normally, play with her friends, talk, laugh, and.....
Strasbourg: Joannes Knobloch, 1516.
Popular German-language epitome of Bolognese astrologer and chiromancer Bartolommeo della Rocca Cocles's Chiromantie ac physionomie anastasis. Cocles discusses, in 23 short chapters, the fundamentals of physiognomy: the nature of the four principal "complexions" (humors), and how to determine the character of a person by not just.....
Augsburg: Erhard Oeglin, 1522.
First edition. Johannes Diepold had joined the Reformation early on, in Weil der Stadt near Stuttgart, preaching the gospel, and later moved to Ulm where he reached a wider and more appreciative audience. The two sermons in the present flugschrift are perhaps his best known: the.....
Augsburg: Silvan Otmar, 1522.
Preached on the 25th of July, 1522, Luther's sermon on James the Greater, or James, the son of Zebedee, was addressed to those taking the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostella in Galicia. James, called the Greater to distinguish him from James the Less (or the Just.....
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Wittenberg: Hans Lufft, 1531.
Luther's sermon on angels, preached on the occasion of Michaelmas, 29 September 1530, was ostensibly about the Archangel Michael and the divine college of angels' reverence for God in Matthew 18.10, but the substance of the sermon was actually about fallen angels, in particular the Devil.....
Cologne: 1558.
First published in two books in 1549, and enlarged to three in 1552, Dedekind's elegiac poem concerns a certain St. Grobian, a personage first envisioned half a century before by Sebastian Brant as a the patron saint of coarse manners. In Dedekind's satiric masterpiece, St. Grobian teaches students.....
Paris: Robert Estienne, 1568. Octavo, 159 x 97 x 1 mm; A4, [8] pp. Binding of old, heavy, fawn paper wraps, slightly worn. Leaves toned, small hole in tail gutter margin, not near text, evidence of guarding to gutter margins. At one time a member of a Sammelband; ink numbering.....
Wittenberg: Josef Klug, 1529.
Caspar Huberinus, a Bavarian transplant to Augsburg, was a late but ardent supporter of Luther and the Protestant cause: Huberinus's first book, a kind of commiseration and admission of confraternity with "secret Protestants"—incipient reformers still in the closet, as it were—did not appear until 1525. The.....