Osiander, Andreas

Grundt und Ursach...wie und warumb...die...Pr!bst zu N!remberg die Misspre!ch ey der heiligen Mess...abgestelt unterlassen und geendert haben

      N!remberg:: [Gedruckt durch Hanz Hergott],, 1524.. Modern speckled paper wrappers. 19th-century elegant private library stamp, paper label with inked short title and remnants of another on title-page, small leather tab on the outer edge of leaf. A little tattering to title-page and top edge of F1 bumped; internally generally clean. Inked marginalia in an early hand: in German on the title- and last (blank) page and elsewhere in Latin, some letters shaved by the binder in a few places.. 8vo (15 cm, 6"). [5], [1 (blank)], [41], [1 (blank)] ff. . Convoluted language on the title-page is rendered clear at the beginning of the first chapter, where Andreas Osiander the elder (1498-1552), vicar of Saint Lawrence's parish in N!remberg at the time, explains why he and his colleagues have "put an end to the Mass." Written early in his career, this pamphlet appears to have made Osiander's reputation as a prominent Lutheran reformer. = This is the rarer of two 1524 editions (we were able to trace only one copy in the U.S.), and it is listed by VD16 as the first. The other was printed in October of the same year by Hieronymus H!ltzel, also of Nuremberg. More were printed the following year in Wittemberg, Leipzig, Augsburg, Zwickau, Erfurt, and later in K!nigsburg (ca. 1526) and Magdeburg (1545). This edition is printed in schwabacher with the title within a woodcut architectural border; a woodcut historiated initial is used twice.