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Summary: A 1565 printing of Luther's Small Catechism.

Summary: Interpretation of Psalm 68 by Georg Major, a student of Luther and Melanchthon, and professor at Wittenberg from 1536, with a few brief interruptions, until his death.

Summary: A sermon by Johann Mathesius on the resurrection of the dead, preached three hours before his own death. Issued with it is the funeral sermon for Mathesius, delivered by Caspar Franck.

Summary: 1545 printing of a work by Luther on intercessory prayer, first published in 1535.

Summary: Early edition of a Lutheran prayer-book.

Summary: Short tract by Andreas Osiander about John 16 (Jesus going to the Father) and the doctrine of justification.

Summary: In this "New Year's Wish," Hans Sachs considers the problem of a man facing death. He calls first upon his physical attributes--youth, beauty, strenght, etc,--but finds they cannot help him. It is the spiritual factors of Sorrow, Confession, Pepentance, Hope, Faith and above all Love, that give him good counsel and rouse him from the dream of Death. This is the second printing of the revised version.

Summary: The only printing of a pamphlet against Andreas Osiander's interpretation of Luther's doctrine of salvation by faith, signed by several theologians and pastors from Wittenberg.

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Summary: The 1531 revision of Luther's German Psalter was more free and less literal than any of his previous translations. This is the first printing of this third and final edition of the German Psalter. The comittee that assisted Luther in revising this translation finished its work May 15, 1531. Printing was not completed until 1533.

Summary: A tract by Matthias Flacius asserting the real presence of Christ in the eucharist.

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Summary: Tract on the history of Divine Revelation, tracing the teachers of the church from the Creation to the author's own time, by Georg Major, a student of Luther and Melanchthon, and professor at Wittenberg from 1536, with a few brief interruptions, until his death.

Summary: Early edition of Erasmus' treatise on free human will and its limits.

Summary: Melanchthon wrote three versions of his book on dialectic, considering only the third to be truly successful. This is a printing from 1534 of the second (1528) version.

Summary: German translation by Wenzeslaus Linck of Epistola contra Judaeorum, thought to be written in Arabic by Samuel of Marocco, an apostate Jew at the beginning of the 11th century and translated into Latin by the Spanish Dominican Alphonsus Bonihominis in the 14th century and widely disseminated. Bonihominis is likely the real author of the work.

Summary: Response by Mathias Flacius Illyricus, among the strictest of the Lutheran theologians of his time, to the views of the early Reformer of Nürnberg, Andreas Osiander, on Justification. Osiander emphasized the believer's being made righteous, as opposed to being declared righteous through Christ. Flacius reports on the title page that he had shared his views on this issue privately in writing with friends, but that they had been published without his permission and in a form unacceptable to him. This edition represents the official response by Flacius.

Summary: Compilation by Johann Wigand of arguments made by the Reformer Paul Eber in support of the real presence of Christ in the eucharist.

Summary: Summary-style Lutheran catechism by Sebald Heyden, a humanist scholar and educator in Nuremberg. He was well known as a poet and composer of hymns and his book "De arte candendi" (On the art of singing) had a significant impact on the study and teaching of music.

Summary: Rhegius was a Reformer, active throughout Germany promoting Lutheran unity in the Holy Roman Empire. In 1530 at the Diet of Augsburg he was befriended by Ernest I, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, under whose patronage he returned to Brunswick where he wrote the present work for Ernest's son, Francis Otto (1530-1559). Like many 16th c. catechisms, Rhegius' is in the form of a dialogue, in this instance between the teacher and the pupil (paedagogus et discipulus).

Summary: Johannes Brenz had written the first Protestant catechism in 1527, two years before Luther issued his large and small catechisms. This is a 1552 printing of the work.