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Vnterricht der Visitatorn an die Pfarhern ym Kurfurstenthum zu Sachssen; Title page recto

Lutheran Church--Doctrines

Lutheran Church--Education

Visitations, Ecclesiastical

Saxony (Germany)

History

This book represents the first attempt to organize the Reformation within a given territory. These are the "Saxon Visitation Articles", intended to guide the Saxon government representatives charged with bringing order, and raising the level of Christian education, within church and school -- is this in the CLIO record? Not sure of the source YES FROM CLIO SEE https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/4528357

Melanchthon, Philipp, 1497-1560

Luther, Martin, 1483-1546

Schirlentz, Nickel

Nickel Schirlentz

1528

No Copyright - United States

German

Still Image

4528357

1528

Vuittemberg

books

[96] pages (last [2] pages blank) ; 20 cm (quarto)

Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary, Columbia University

Tower

03-B1876

original filename:1900200033

Printer from colophon which reads: "Gedruckt zu Wittemberg, durch Nickel Schirlentz. M.D.XXviij."

Signatures: A-M⁴

"Vorrhede" by Martin Luther

Title within woodcut border

Compare with 03-B1229 (VD 16, M 2604; Benzing, 2498; Gatch, D272) and 03-B1877 (VD 16, M 2603; Benzing, 2496; Gatch, D2039) and 03-B1878 (VD 16, M 2597; Benzing, 2488; Gatch, D2038)

recto, title page

reformatted digital