In hoc volumine haec continentur: Duplex Co[n]fessio Valdensiu[m] ad Regem Ungarie missa. . . . Excusatio Valdensium contra binas litteras Doctoris Augustini

Ziegler, Jacob; Kuna, Heinrich.; Lotter, Melchior; et al

Leipzig: Melchior Lotter for Heinrich Kuna, 1512.

First Edition. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Good Condition. Item #049662

Later quarter leather over decorative paper. Worn at corners leather torn at base of spine, rubbed, but sound. Rochester Theological Seminary library label inside cover, dtae written on front blank. Pervasive tide mark t lower 1/3 - 1/2 of the volume, not affecting legibility. Complete with the second leaf blank save for a 10 line defense of the Catholic Church, 170 leaves.

Ziegler was a peripatetic cartographer and theologican from Bavaria. It seems likely that this collection of attacks on the Bohemian Brethren (the Unitas Fratrum) was meant to curry favor with Pope Leon X - and it apparently worked because he spent years at court beginning not long after. The attacks on the brethren echoed the attacks deployed by Malleus Maleficarum author Heinrich Kramer's (esp. "Excusatio fratrum valdensium contra binas litteras doctoris Augustini") and their centrally misogynistic framing. Ziegler, interestingly, converted to Protestantism in 1532 and had most of his works entered into the index of prohibited books. His humanist sympathies are evidenced by the Roman typeface chosen here, unusual at the time for a theological book printed in Leipzig.

Ca. 12 copies in OCLC, very rare in commerce.

Colophon: Generosus Dominus Heinricus Kuna de Chunstat sua pecunia impressoria[m] officina[m] redemit. Melchior[que] Loterus ciuis Lypsensis excussit. Anno M.D.XII

see: "Witches, Saints, and Heretics
Heinrich Kramer’s Ties with Italian Women Mystics" by Tamar Herzig, 2006 Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Religion & Theology; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 049662.

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