DOBNECK, Johann Cochlaeus. De autoritate et potestate generalis concilij…LXX. propositiones pro conciliorum generalium autoritate (Mainz, Franciscus Behem), 1546
FIRST EDITION of Dobneck’s approval of the authority of councils in general, but specifically an imprimatur for the forthcoming Council of Trent (it is even dedicated to the Bishop of Trent). The author (1479-1552) started life as an author – he wrote 2 text-books on music and edited several classical and patristic texts - schoolmaster and humanist, only becoming ordained at Rome in about 1519. The onset of the Reformation released his extreme prejudice and bitterness and he remained a prolific and controversial anti-Lutheran writer, largely of pamphlets, until his death in Breslau in 1552. ‘His more serious efforts retain no permanent value. With humanist convictions, he had little of the humanist spirit’, Encyclopaedia Britannica, although he was friends with More and Fisher and corresponded regularly with Erasmus until the latter’s death in 1536.Adams D2258 (one imperfect copy); not in RLIN; OCLC locates the copy at Duke University
8vo. 48ff. (including the final blank). Mostly rather browned, in modern boards
£400
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