SERMONS

Müller, Georg: Zwo newe predig: die erste auf das newe jar von dem hochgebenedeyten namen Iesu: die ander von allen heiligen Gottes und den acht seligkeiten. Dem ehrwirdigen und hochgelehrten herren Petro Steuartio, der H. Schrifft Doctori und Professori ordinario [...] dediciert unnd zugeschrieben [...] Gedruckt zu Ingolstatt durch Wolffgang Eder 1586.

Rare pamphlet containing two Roman Catholic sermons, the first a New Year sermon on the subject of the name of Jesus, the second on all the saints. The publication is dedicated to Peter Steuartius, originally from Liège, a professor at Ingolstadt, who was also parish priest of St. Moritz in the same city, and an apostolic protonotary. The author was a bachelor of theology, and also a parish priest in Ingolstadt, at the Church of the Holy Spirit.

Details

8vo., pp. 88. Title in red and black. Woodcut decoration and initials. Splitting to text block after sig. E8, but good. A strip of early marbled pastepaper to spine, a small early handpainted woodcut of a woman with armorial with bull to verso of title-page.

USTC 707204, VD16 ZV 11196. Uncommon, USTC, OCLC and VD 16 (02/17) showing four copies outside Germany (Vienna, Lucerne, St. Petersburg and Schaffhausen (Switzerland)).