Oecolampadius, Johannes

Ain Gespr!ch etlicher Predicanten zu Basel gehalten mit etlichen bekennern des Wydertauffs

      [colophon: Augspurg: Getruckt ... Silvanum Otmar], 1525. Removed from a nonce volume, provenance indications as above. Light dust-soiling to exterior paper; minor library pencillings and one old inked numeral; otherwise, clean.. 4to (20.5 cm; 8"). [10 (last blank)] ff. . One of three editions of this account of "a discussion held at Basel between several preachers and several professing Anabaptists" (translation of the title), all printed in 1525: One at Basel by Curio, another at Augsburg by Rammingen, and this one. Oecolampadius was among the first wave of reformers: By late 1522 he was in Basel as vicar of St. Martin's and in 1523 he was reader of the Holy Scripture at the University of Basel. About this time he became Zwingli's assistant.#11; = No copies located outside of Germany.#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).