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Summary: An appeal to religious leaders to take interest in the effort to repeal the Test Acts, a set of penal laws blocking non-Anglicans from taking public office.

Summary: A sermon preached in honor of the announcement of the queen's pregnancy.

Summary: A sermon preached in honor of the king's succession and reign.

Summary: An account of the Rye House Plot, a conspiracy against the British monarchy.

Summary: A sermon preached in honor of Charles II, King of England, following his death.

Summary: A sermon preached in honor of the king's victory over rebel forces.

Summary: A treatise on monarchies as a form of government.

Summary: An address to the Archbishop of Canterbury by James II.

Summary: A printed catalog of the Hofbibliothek in Vienna, Austria.

Summary: Second printing of a an anti-Protestant tract by Kilian Leib, prior of the Augustinian monastery at Rebdorf. Leib was a Catholic theologian in the humanist tradition who was a firm opponent of Martin Luther's reforms. In 1530 he had participated in drafting the Catholic response to the Augsburg Confession. In this work, Leib outlines 7 causes for the Lutheran heresy, which include among others an unfavorable constellation of the stars, ordained by God to punish humanity.

Summary: Philipp Melanchthon's biography of Martin Luther was first printed in 1548 and reissued numerous times. Included are Melanchthon's obituary of Martin Luther as well as his funeral sermon. The work was edited by Johannes Pollicarius who added some Latin and Greek poetry on Luther's "Here I stand" statement.

Summary: Defense of the Catholic doctrine of good works against the Protestant teaching of salvation by faith alone, written by the Dominican Johann Mensing.

Summary: Polemic ballad with a total of 142 rhymed lines, relating the story of a drunk Carmelite monk who attends a sermon preached outside the city by a righteous (Lutheran) pastor and who interrupts the preacher, accusing him of lying and misrepresenting Scripture. The people in response rise up and begin to beat him, almost killing him, but the monk is taken away and brought before the city council and the mayor who calls for calm and instructs that the monk should be locked up to await the executioner and thus be placed under God's justice rather than the mob's anger.

Summary: Catholic publication of the colloquy of Ratisbon (Regensburg), a meeting in 1541 between Catholic and Lutheran theologians.

Summary: Defense of Catholic worship and priestly offices by Paul Bachmann, Abbot of Altzelle, a vehement opponent of Martin Luther.

Summary: This is an early Italian response to Martin Luther, attacking the schismatic monk on his own terms, in the vernacular for the benefit of laymen or simplici, as advertised on the title-page. The work is quite broad in its criticism and aims to refute not only Luther and his followers, but all heretics and even Jews.

Summary: In this volume, Hieronymous Emser, who had himself translated the New Testament from Greek into German, provides a chapter by chapter commentary and critique on Martin Luther's translation of the New Testament.

Summary: Johannes von Paltz (or Pals) was an Augustinian preacher and seller of indulgences. He was on the teaching faculty at the University of Erfurt at the time Martin Luther was enrolled as a student. He had published a collection of sermons under title Celifodina in 1502. It was so popular that he published the supplement in 1504. This is the second edition.

Summary: One of four volumes of a 1497 printing of Jerome's commentaries on the Old Testament. This particular volume comprises the prophetic books Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel as well as the 12 minor prophets. It is unique insofar as not all parts of the larger set were bound in the same order or based on the same divisions. It was that was once held by the library of Rebdorf monastery, which developed a renown humanist collection during the tenure of Kilian Leib as the monastery's prior.

Summary: Response by Luther to the theses of Johann Eck, who had previously been in debate with Luther's colleague, Karlstadt. The face to face clash would come some six months later at the end of June, 1519.

Summary: Applying traditional Hindu ascetical terms to Christianity.