Sylloge epistolarum ex mss. Fide dignissimis…eruta et in unum volume congesta a pronepote… BOUND WITH Mysterion coronae Meretricis Babylonicae Frontispicium…adversus Jacobum Benignum Bossuet; Mysterium papali coronae adscriptum ens hucusque reale; Mysterion papali coronae adscriptum non ens. Ceu commentaries

Leipzig. Good with no dust jacket. 1706. Vellum. Polykarp Leyser 1st edition, 64 unnumbered leaves and 344 numbered pages. Most of the letters are in Latin, but a number are in German, printed in the old Gothic script. It is bound with a number of other important and scarce theological tracts: Mysterion coronae Meretricis Babylonicae Frontispicium…adversus Jacobum Benignum Bossuet… by Christianus Gotthilf Blumberg, Leipzig, Francofurti Kose, 1694 (47 unnumbered leaves); Johannis Ludovici Hannemann…Mysterion papali coronae adscriptum non ens. Ceu commentaries…by Hannemann; Hamburg: Gothofried Liebenzeit 1698 (61 pages); Blumberg, C.G. Mysterium papali coronae adscriptum ens hucusque reale…Blumberg. Zwickau: Bittorf, 1702 (6 unnumbered leaves); Hannemann, Mysterion papali coronae adscriptum non ens ceu commentaries…Hamburg: Liebezeit, 1698. (6 leaves, 163 pages, 11 leaves). The book is in good antiquarian condition. It is bound in what appears to be original full vellum with handsome old hand lettered title to the spine, some minimal wear to covers, yapp edges to protect the page edges. The book is a small octavo measuring 4" x 6.5". Interior front hinge cracking but holding strong, first blank detaching, some old bibliographic or shelf numbers in pencil to inside front cover, old owner signature on title page, occasional mild foxing and age toning, some very occasional worming, but otherwise clean and respectable and handsome. Each of the books included has its own title page. There are some nice end pieces throughout. A very attractive copy of this important Lutheran first edition dating back to 1706, bound with other important and illuminating Protestant tracts from the late 1600s or early 1700s. Polykarp (von) Leyser the Elder or Polykarp Leyser I (18 March 1552 - 22 February 1610) was a Lutheran theologian, superintendent of Braunschweig, superintendent-general of the Saxon church-circle, professor of theology at theUniversity of Wittenberg and chief court-preacher and consistorial-councillor ofSaxony. He was married to the daughter of Cranach the Younger and was a student of Martin Chemnitz. Leyser came to have an ingrained support for Lutheran orthodoxy - indeed, at a difficult time for Lutheranism, he was one of those who founded that orthodoxy. As one of the key movers behind the Formula of Concord, he used his books to defend Lutheran orthodoxy and attack Catholicism and Calvinism.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .