ARNOLDI, Bartholomaeus, of Usingen

Libellus ... de falsis prophetis tam in persona qua doctrina vitandis a fidelibus. De recta et muda pdicatioe Euagelij ... de celibatu sacerdotum Noue Legis et de matrimonio eorum : nec non monachorum exiticiorum : responsio ad sermone Langi de mat

      Erfurt: [Matthes Maler],. 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.#11;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).#11;The work is illustrated with a beautiful woodcut title-border signed "FB" and is illustrated in Johnson, German Renaissance Title-Borders, no. 69.#11;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; Johnson 69). 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