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Summary: This tract is in two parts. It deals with a funeral seen in the skies over Wittenberg, and other marvels seen in the skies in Switzerland. The first part is by Melanchthon, who believed in astrology, and it has not hitherto been reported in Melanchthon literature. The second part by Ulrich Murer also appears to be unrecorded.

Summary: Johannes Garcaeus (Gartze) was a Lutheran theologian at the University of Greifswald. He is also known for his work in astrology. This work deals with the biblical and early Christian teaching about angels.

Summary: First edition of a tract by Andreas Osiander on the subject of justification and Christ's role as mediator.

Summary: Latin grammar written by the English humanist Thomas Linacre. The preface was written by Philipp Melanchthon.

Summary: Urbanus Rhegius was an early follower of Luther, and active as preacher in both southern and northern Germany. His, "Seelenarznei," or, "Soul Medicine," follows in the wake of the medieval "Art of Dying" genre, but is also very much under the influence of Luther's, "Sermon von der Bereitung zum Sterben," or, "Sermon Concerning Preparation for Dying." The second part (Vom Glauben und guten Wercken) deals with the issue of faith and good works.

Summary: Part two of Luther's collected sermons on the historical Epistles and Gospels of the Church year. Bound with part one. Six volumes, in all, were issued, with the last appearing in 1527.

Summary: Publication by Matthias Flacius of correspondence between Pope Paul III and his legates and the courts of Emperor Charles V and King Henry of France. With this publication, Flacius had intended to expose deceptions by the Pope during the Council of Trent.

Summary: Henning Conradinus was a German educator and poet. This work is a Latin poem, composed in iambic hexameter, on 1 Maccabees 16, which describes the battle at Kidron.

Summary: Eight-line note on rhetorical terms in 16th century Latin mss. on inside front cover; book plate and stamp of former owner Camille Aboussouan on inside front cover and verso of front flyleaf respectively; three Latin distichs identifying former owner as "Joannes Kenerus"; "Freht dich und gnad dir Gott": in ms. surrounds prrinter's device on title page; first few leaves with contemporary manuscript marginalia; "Statua Martis" in 16th century Latin mss. surrounds printer's device on last verso.

Summary: Response singed by 30 gnesio-Luther theologians, who had been expelled from the city of Jena.

Summary: Collection of documents issued by theologians in the Duchy of Württemberg and Victorinus Strigel concerning Strigel's Psalms commentary and his position in the synergistic controversy. Strigel supported the Philippist position that human will contributes to salvation, an idea that was rejected by the gnesio-Lutherans and by most of the theologians in Württemberg.

Summary: This is a later (1548) printing of H.E. Hessus' poetic paraphrases in Latin of the books of Psalms and Ecclesiastes.

Summary: Part one of Luther's collected sermons on the historical Epistles and Gospels of the Church year, as edited by Martin Bucer, the Reformer of Strasbourg. Bound with part two. Six volumes, in all, were issued, with the last appearing in 1527.

Summary: Second German edition of Johannes Brenz' postil or lectionary sermons, presented in three parts. The fourth part is a harmony and interpretation of the four Gospel passion stories.

Summary: This is the original Latin version of Melanchthon's funeral oration for Luther, preached in Wittenberg, February 22, 1546. The friendship between Luther and Melanchthon was almost legendary, even in their own lifetimes, and this deeply moving oration is an eloquent testimony to the depth of Melanchthon's feelings for his friend of twenty-eight years.

Summary: Popular doctrinal theology by the Lutheran reformer Johann Spangenberg, based on Melanchthon's Loci Communes, and written for use by pastors and ministers. The work was first published in 1540 and was re-issued and translated numerous times.

Summary: Collection of sermons on various topics by the Lutheran preacher Caspar Huberinus.

Summary: Funeral sermons and tributes for the Lutheran theologian Matthaeus Richter (also known as Matthaeus Judex). Also included are epitaphs for Anna von Bert (1533–1564), wife of the theologian Tilemann Heshusius.

Summary: J. de Sacro Bosco was an English mathematician who taught in Paris after 1230. This work on astronomy was only the second by a Western scholar based on Arabic researches to be printed (1472). The book was frequently reprinted as here with a commentary by a famous modern scholar, in this case Melanchthon. Melanchthon's interest in astrology is well known, so it was natural for him to edit this material.

Summary: Formal opinion of Siegfried Saccus, schoolmaster at Magdeburg and later its first Lutheran cathedral preacher, concerning the right of the city government to appoint clergy. As a follower of the strict Lutheran Nicholas von Amsdorff, he steered a careful path between the views of the local Catholic hierarchy on the one hand, and those of the Münster Anabaptists, on the other. Although Magdeburg became a refuge of the strict Lutheran party following the Schmalkald War, the city council was late in making an official decision for or against the Reformation.

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