Althamer, Andreas, attrib. author

Ein kurtze Vntterricht, den Pfarherrn und Predigern: Inn meiner gnedigen Herrn der Marggraffen zu Branndenburg. [et]c. F!rstenthumben un[d] Landen, hieniden in Francken, und auff dem Gebirg verordent, wes sie das Volck wider etliche verf!rische

      [Nuremberg: Jobst Gutknecht, 1528]. Removed from a nonce volume, provenance indications as above. Light dust-soiling to exterior paper; minor library pencillings and one old inked numeral; limited brown stain in blank area of last leaf, offsetting to previous page opposite. A few instances of marginal notation or textual correction in old ink and an old hand.. Small 4to (20 cm; 8.75"). [14] ff. . Althamer (1498-1564), a Lutheran minister, was a strident opponent of the Anabaptists. This work, written at the behest of Margrave George of Brandenburg, who after publication had it distributed to all pastors and preachers in his realm, aims to prove the doctrine of infant baptism from the Old Testament and in doing so ties it directly to circumcision as a sign of the divine covenant and grace.#11; During the Bern Disputation (1528) Althamer stood and defended the Lutheran doctrine of the Lord's Supper.#11; This is printed in gothic type and offers a title-page graced by a four-element woodcut border composed of floral, avian, and animal motifs, with putti not forgotten. #11; Provenance: Ownership signature on title-page of Howard Osgood, noted late 19th- and early 20th-century collector and scholar; old circular pressure-stamp on same page of a seminary (properly released).#11; WorldCat finds two copies in North America, one of which has been deaccessioned, and COPAC finds two copies in Great Britain, both at the British Library.