Summary: A significant treatise on predestination. Johann Eck expounds a view of free will and merit, which was soon to come under attack by Martin Luther and other Protestants.
Signatures: a-c⁴ A-Y⁶ Z⁴ 2A⁶ 2B⁴. Last p. blank.
Imprint: (from colophon) Augustae Vindelicorum Ex Officina Millerana Mense Nouembri Anno MDXIIII ...--P. [315]
Illustrative and Decorative Content: Wood-engraved t.p. with figures of Jacob and Esau blessed by Christ from above, and surrounded by an architecural border. Printer's device on p. [315] beneath colophon. Printer's device hand-colored.
Binding: Bound in half pigskin, alum-tawed, over wooden boards, blind-tooled, with brass and leather clasps (one lacking), and with title and author statement inscribed on upper board.
Additional Details: Includes dedicatory poem by Urbanus Rhegius--P. [24]. From the library of the Loci Capuccinorum Bambergae, 1638, with its inscription.
This work is part of the Richard C. Kessler Reformation Collection.
Historiated title page of Johann Eck's Chrysopassus
VD16E 305
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