4to, ccxxi (= 220) ff. [bound with:] WICELIUS, Georg - Publicum Ecclesiae sacrum: Von der Warheit der Altkyrchischen Liturgy und Opfferung das ist Catholischer Wissen. Antwort [...] wider den Matthis Illyric. zu Magdenburg. Cologne, J. Quentel, 1551. [96] ff. [and with:] HELDING, Michael - Etliche schone Christenliche Predig von dem Glauben und guten Wercken [...] Gepredigt zu Augspurg im Thumbstifft Anno M.D.xlvij [ed. Joannes Fabri O.P.]. Dillingen, S. Mayer, 1551. [56] ff. (toned, a few single wormholes, 1st title loose). Contemp. blind-stamped pigskin over wood, beveled edges, roll stamp with sm. scenes (man and woman), a central geometrical decoration, metal clasps and catches (spine rubbed, sm. wormholes in covers). Excellent wide-margined copy
"1. Extr. rare German trsl. of ""De veritate corporis & sanguinis dominici in Eucharistia"" by the Liège teacher and Cluny monk Algerus (d. 1131), edited by Erasmus (Freiburg 1530) with a dedicatory letter (Allen 2284) to B. Mercklin (1479-1531) on Transsubstantiation. Large woodcut (Last Supper) on title and 4 woodcuts in text (H3-4), all coloured. Ref. VD-16 A-1872. - Erasmus Online 3753. - Not in Ind. Aur., Adams, STC German (BL), BnF. - 2. Refutation of the Lutheran controversialist Flaccus Illyricus (1520-1575) by G. Witzel (1501-1573), a Catholic theologian who first turned Lutheran, but later rejoined Catholicism. Ref. VD-16 W-4007. - Not in Adams, STC German, BnF. - 3. German sermons on the hot items of faith and good works, dedicated to Johann Count Nassau by the Augsburg Dominican Fabri (1504-1557). Title in red & black. Ref. VD-16 H-1591. - Bucher, Dillingen, 12. - Not in Adams, STC German, BnF. Prov. Contemp. marg. annotations throughout; from the library of Sebastian Stattmüller, abbot of the Cistercian Schöntal Abbey (Württemberg) with abbot’s stamp and presentation inscription: ""Closter Schönthall"", ""[...] Sebastiano Abbati Schontalen[si] 1551"". Most probably a Schöntal binding"
