ARNOLDI, Bartholomaeus, of Usingen

Libellus ... de falsis prophetis tam in persona qua doctrina vitandis afidelibus. De recta et muda pdicatioe Euãgelij ... de celibatu sacerdotumNoue Legis et de matrimonio eorum : nec non monachorum exiticiorum :responsio ad sermone Langi de matrimonio sacerdotali ... cõtra factioneLuttheranã.

      [Matthes Maler], Erfurt 1525 Modern boards 4to . FIRST EDITION of this rare tract attacking the position of Luther's followers regarding the marriage of priests as well as other reforms proposed by Luther and his circle. Bartholomaeus Arnoldi of Usingen (c. 1465-1532) studied at Erfurt from 1484 and later taught scholastic philosophy and theology there until 1526. "He was one of the teachers of Martin Luther, and around 1512 he entered the same Erfurt house of the Augustinian Eremites that Luther had entered some seven years earlier. Usingen, however, opposed the Reformation with great zeal, although he was sympathetic to the humanist movement ... In the wake of the peasant rebellion and the triumph of the reformparty, he left Erfurt early in 1526 for the Wurzburg house of his order" (Contemporaries of Erasmus, III, p. 360). The work is rare; OCLC locates only one copy at Yale 40 leaves. With fine woodcut title border signed with the monogram "FB" (Luther, TE 67 & 67a). Few minor spots on title-page. Very good copy. § VD 16, A 3702; IA 108.965; von Hase 543; Panzer (Annales typographici), VI, 503, 63; Kuczynski 2681; BM/STC German 67