Catalogus nr 5.indd - Den Hertog Bolland Rare Books

[ 20 ] RHEGIUS, Urbanus (1489-1541). Die new Leer sambt jrer Verlegung. [Strasbourg], [JohannKnobloch], 1527. 8vo. [52] lvs. Modern half vellum with marbled paper-covered boards. 1.250,-Extremely rare first and apparently only edition of Heinrich Montprot’s translation of one of Rhegius’ most populartreatises (another German translation, by Benedictus Schiler, was published by Joseph Klug in Wittenberg in 1526).It was first published in Latin in 1526 and contains a defence of Protestant theology against the charge that it was anew and heretical. Rhegius, the reformer of Augsburg, preferred to demonstrate the antiquity of the Protestant faithwith quotations from Scripture, but also claimed that a good part of what his opponents defended as the genuineold teaching had been unknown to the Fathers. Nova doctrina is one of Rhegius’ most widely translated treatises.Although sometimes with some adaptations and additions, it appeared in English, French, Dutch, Italian, andSpanish within a couple of decades. - Small waterstain in upper margin of gathering E.VD 16 R 1861; not in Chrisman.