Vlačić Matija: Catalogvs Testium ueritatis, qui ante nostram aetatem Pontifici Romano, eiusque erroribus reclamarunt, iam denuo longe quam antea, & emendatior & auctior editus: Opus uaria rerum, hoc praeser

Matija Vlačić: Catalogvs Testium ueritatis, qui ante nostram aetatem Pontifici Romano, eiusque erroribus reclamarunt, iam denuo longe quam antea, & emendatior & auctior editus: Opus uaria rerum, hoc praesertim tempore scitu dignissimarum, cognitione refertum

The Strasbourg edition from 1562 is a comprehensive, polemical-historical work of the Lutheran Reformation which gathers in twenty books those "witnesses to the truth" who were, according to Vlačić, contradicting the papacy and its delusions even before Luther. The volume was first published in Basel in 1556 and was re-presented in 1562 in a much expanded "emendatior & auctior" edition. This version is considered the final form of the work and, with over 600 leaves, is a monumental folio volume of early modern church historiography. Vlačić (1520 – 1575), one of the most radical Lutheran theologians and co-initiator of the Magdeburg Centuries, continued the program with the "Catalogus testium veritatis" of the reconstruction of church history as a chain of hidden but continuous anti-papal voices. In long sections, arranged by century and person, he cites church fathers, medieval theologians, movements, martyrs, and groups that, according to his interpretation, challenged central Roman Catholic doctrines even before the Reformation. Excerpts, quotations and summaries of their writings are compiled and placed within a consistently Protestant-polemical interpretative framework. The 1562 edition supplements the first version with additional sources, adds the Auctarium and detailed indexes of persons, subjects and quotations, thus offering a kind of scholarly reference work against "papism". The final leaves contain old marginalia.

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Matija Vlačić: Catalogvs Testium ueritatis, qui ante nostram aetatem Pontifici Romano, eiusque erroribus reclamarunt, iam denuo longe quam antea, & emendatior & auctior editus: Opus uaria rerum, hoc praeseritum tempore scitu dignissimarum, cognitione refertum 

The Strasbourg edition from 1562 is a comprehensive, polemical-historical work of the Lutheran Reformation that gathers in twenty books those "witnesses to the truth" who, according to Vlačić, contradicted the papacy and its errors even before Luther.

The volume was first published in Basel in 1556. and was re-presented in 1562. in a much expanded "emendatior & auctior" edition. This version is considered the final form of the work and, with over 600 leaves, is a monumental folio volume of early modern church historiography.

Vlačić (1520 – 1575), one of the most radical Lutheran theologians and co-initiator of the Magdeburg Centuries, continued the program with the "Catalogus testium veritatis" of the reconstruction of church history as a chain of hidden but continuous anti-papal voices. 
In long sections, arranged by century and person, he cites church fathers, medieval theologians, movements, martyrs, and groups that, according to his interpretation, challenged central Roman Catholic doctrines even before the Reformation. 
Excerpts, quotations and summaries of their writings are compiled and placed within a consistently Protestant-polemical interpretative framework.

The 1562 edition supplements the first version with additional sources, adds the Auctarium and detailed indexes of persons, subjects and quotations, thus offering a kind of scholarly reference work against "papism". End leaves contain old marginalia.
 

Publisher: Paul Machaeropoeus
Place of publication: Strasbourg
Year of publication: 1562.
Number of pages: 586+58
Dimensions: 20.5x31cm
Binding: Hard
Condition: Excellent