31st Mar, 2020 11:00

Books & Works on Paper including Autographs & Memorabilia

 
  Lot 61
 

Religion.- Nicolai (Philipp)

Religion.- Nicolai (Philipp)

Fundamentorum Calvinianae sectae cum veteribus Arianis et Nestorianis communium detecti, library stamp to title, Frobenius, Hamburg, 1609 [bound with] Osiander (Lucas) Enchiridion Controversiarum eligionis: Quae hodie inter Augustanae confessionis theologos et pontificos habentur..., 2 separate titles, Gruppenbach & Groß, Tübingen, 1604-1606, minor dust soiling, contemporary German blind tooled pigskin over wooden boards, the upper cover dated 1609 and inscribed in capital letters M.W.S.P., with outer boards with floral scrolling motifs, masks and putti, inner panel featuring Justice with scales, sword and motto ‘Iustitiae quisquis picturam lumine cernis dic Deus est iustus’, the rear cover depicting the allegory of Fortune with wheel and motto from Ovid ‘Passibus ambiguis fortuna volubilis’, paper labels to spine, soiled and rubbed, 8vo.

*** Philipp Nicolai became known as an author of devotional texts and as a hymnist. The greater portion of his body of work, however, consists of polemical theological writings in which he attacked both Reformed and Catholic positions, but his devotional writings and sermons are no less significant.


 

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