Catalogus Testium Veritatis, Qui ante Nostram Aetatem Pontifici Romano Atque Papismi Erroribus Reclamarunt: Iam Denuò Longè Quàm Antea, et Emendatior et Auctior Editus.
Strasbourg: [Apud Paul Messerschmidt sSumptibus Johann Oporinus], 1562.
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Second edition, s. [12], 586, [14] 58 pp. Folio. Contemporary paneled pigskin, traces of early hand-lettered title to spine, fragments of ties. Rubbing to boards , heavier rubbing to extremities with some wear to spine ends and corners, hinges cracked, front free endpaper and title page partially detched. Light browning to interior, negligible foxing and worming in places, upper-outside cornerof title page excised. Provenance: William R. Whittingham (annotation to title page); Stinnecke Maryland Episcopal Library (stamps); General Theological Seminary (bookplates). USTC 619980; VD16 F1294.
Item #379777
Flacius (1520-1575) was one of the most radical and outspoken Lutheran theologians of the sixteenth century. First published in Basel in 1556, Catalogus summarizes, within a Lutheran-polemical interpretive framework, writings of Church Fathers, medieval theologians, martyrs, and confessional groups that questioned Roman Catholic doctrines efore Luther. The 1562 edition is significantly larger than the first. It has additional sources and detailed indexes of persons, subjects, and quotations. A useful anti-papist reference, this work went through six later editions, the last one in 1672.
William R. Whittingham (1805-1879), graduated the General Theological Seminary in 1825 and was named librarian of the newly founded school. He later accepted a position on the faculty in 1836. Whittingham was consecrated the fourth Bishop of Maryland in 1840 and served in that capacity until his death. Bishop Whittingham's important theological library became the core of the Maryland Diocese library, which was in turn transferred to the General Theological Seminary.
Item #379777
Flacius (1520-1575) was one of the most radical and outspoken Lutheran theologians of the sixteenth century. First published in Basel in 1556, Catalogus summarizes, within a Lutheran-polemical interpretive framework, writings of Church Fathers, medieval theologians, martyrs, and confessional groups that questioned Roman Catholic doctrines efore Luther. The 1562 edition is significantly larger than the first. It has additional sources and detailed indexes of persons, subjects, and quotations. A useful anti-papist reference, this work went through six later editions, the last one in 1672.
William R. Whittingham (1805-1879), graduated the General Theological Seminary in 1825 and was named librarian of the newly founded school. He later accepted a position on the faculty in 1836. Whittingham was consecrated the fourth Bishop of Maryland in 1840 and served in that capacity until his death. Bishop Whittingham's important theological library became the core of the Maryland Diocese library, which was in turn transferred to the General Theological Seminary.
