HOSPINIANUS, RUDOLPHUS (RUDOLPH WIRTH).

De Monachis: hoc est De origine, et progressu Monachatus ac ordinum Monasticorum, equitumq; Militarium tam sacrorum quam secularium omnium, Libri VI. Editio secunda, emendata, aucta & locupletata, cum integris Capitibus, tum responsionibus Roberti Bellarmini...

Tiguri (Zürich), Officina Wolphiana, 1609. Folio. Contemp. full pigskin, richly blindtooled. Handwritten title to spine. Remains of ties. Name cut from foot of titlepage (no loss of letters), 2 old owners name on tp. (22),275,(1) Ff. Last 25 leaves with a dampstain to lower part, increasing towards end. Some scattred brownspots and some faint dampstaing to lower margin.

Hospinianus's anti-Catholic writing was against the supposed harmony of Catholic doctrines and institutions with the early Church, concentrating on baptism, the Eucharist, church festivals, fasting, religious orders, the rule of the papacy, and funerals.

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