Sander[s], Nicholas & Georg G. Gotthardt

De Origine Ac Progressu Schismatis Anglicani, Libri Tres: Quibus Historia Continetur maxime Ecclesiastica, annorum circiter sexaginta, lectu dilignissima; nimirum ab anno 21. regni Henrici octavi, quo primum cogitare coepit de repudiantia legitima uxore s

      18th c. 1/2 calf over paste-paper boards, spine banded, etra-gilt, title on label, rubbing; edges red;decorated endpapers, Franciscan insciption on t.p.; minor inner margin worming at front,occ. minor stains, some light paper toning.. 8vo. 2 works in 1 vol.. Printer's marks on t.p.s. Sander [Sanders], Nicholas (c.1530!1581), religious controversialist. OOn 25 January 1572 Sander left Louvain, summoned to Rome. He had a very good relationship with Pius V, who had helped him financially, and it was widely expected that the pope would make him a cardinal...Almost as soon as Sander arrived in Rome he began to write his most influential work, De origine ac progressu schismatis anglicani. Its textual history is complicated. Sander left it unfinished. Only one incomplete manuscript is known, partially annotated by Persons. The first edition, nominally published in Cologne in 1585, actually appeared from the press of Jean Foigny at Rheims. Its editor, Edward Rishton, reworked at least book 3. Rishton's account of his edition includes a number of mysteries, chief among them the identity of the OJodochus Skarnhert of CologneO who had pressed him for a copy of De origine and who had taken responsibility for its publication. It has been suggested that Skarnhert may have been Persons, who is also said to have seen the expanded second edition (1586) through the press. Against these two points is Persons's treatment of De origine and its author in his OCertamen ecclesiae anglicanaeO, which refers to the writer as Oa most famous man for learning, talent and pietyO (Robert Persons, 31), together with Persons's claim that book 2 was Allen's work. It seems likely that Allen had a large hand in the whole of the text as printed, both the original and the revised editions...De origine has a very simple plot: Henry VIII's desire for a divorce caused the Reformation. The villains other than Henry are drawn with broad strokes, especially Cardinal Wolsey. Most of the second edition's interpretation and substance descend from Pole, particularly his Pro ecclesiasticae unitatis defensione, which is frequently quoted, his letter congratulating Mary I on her accession, and perhaps some unpublished and possibly lost works, including a letter about Henry's tomb. Pole figures as the hero: book 2 concludes with his death, not that of Mary Tudor, and he is praised as Othe hope of England, great ornament and light of the church of RomeO (N. Sander, De origine ac progressu schismatis anglicani, libri tres E aucti per Edouardum Rishtonum, 1586, 308!9). Among other sources was a lost life of John Fisher that contained the bishop's witticism on the way up the scaffold (suspiciously reminiscent of Thomas More's): OFeet, do your job, and the rest of my journey will take care of itselfO; Richard Hilliard's mainly lost history of the English Reformation; and Johannes Cochlaeus's attack on Richard Morison's Apomaxis calumniarum. Sander put his legal training to good use in long discussions about the validity of Henry's marriage to Katherine of Aragon and the invalidity of that to Anne Boleyn.O [Oxford DNB]#11;Gotthardt (d.1589) Catholic polemicist and priest. He earned his degree in theology and philosophy and in 1576 and became rector in Passau in 1577. He fled because of the Protestant uprisings but returned in 1584. THe ADB chronicles his wanderings in more detail than we can give here. He authored a number of polemical works defending the Cathoic church.#11;This work is in answer to Jacob Heerbrand who was a professor in Tubingen and a zealous adherant of Luther.#11; Sander: VD 16 S1606. Shaaber S10. Adams S 285. Allison & Rogers 975. Stalla 100. Not in Milward.#11;Gotthardt: VD 16 G2490. Adams G894. Stalla 1548. OCLC: 31612060. [2 copies only.]