Heretics Beware!
ECK, Johann.
Enchiridion locorum communium adversus Lutherum, & alios hostes Ecclesiae … Lyons, Guillaume Rouillé, 1572.
16mo, pp. 457, [7]; woodcut Rouillé device to title, woodcut initials; a few creased corners, but a very good copy; bound in later sixteenth-century gilt vellum, gilt-tooled laurel and palm wreath as centrepiece, gilt cornerpieces of leafy sprays, spine gilt in compartments, edges gilt, vestigial ties to fore-edge, spine lining of printed waste (see below); edges gnawed; eighteenth-century letterpress booklabel of Pierre-Jacques-Louis Le Rat of Lisieux to front pastedown and ink ownership inscription ‘JP Lerat’ to title, ink stamp of the Bibliothèque du Grand Séminaire de Caen to title-page, g3rnd final recto, and their stamped accession number ‘14 586’ to head of title.
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Enchiridion locorum communium adversus Lutherum, & alios hostes Ecclesiae …
A rare pocket edition of Johann Eck’s handbook of anti-Lutheran material, with a section on the burning of heretics and the twelve articles of the Anabaptists of Münster, for use in the fight against Lutheranism.
Johann Eck (1486–1543), a theologian from Swabia, vigorously upheld the authority of the papacy in the face of Lutheranism; this work against Luther and other enemies of the Church, in particular the influential Loci communes of Melanchthon, first appeared in 1525 and was regularly reprinted thereafter. Eck was also an inquisitor, prosecuting trials for Lutheranism, though he did also include in this work some suggestions for reform in the Church.
The printer’s waste visible in the lower board is from an incunable edition of Antonio Corsetti’s Repertorium in opera Nicolai de Tudeschis, in both setting and typeface very similar to the Venice editions of Andrea Torresano de Asola (1486) and Baptista de Tortis (1499).
The watermark of a bunch of grapes in the rear endleaves is Briquet 13194, dated to Rouen, 1589–1591; given the later Normandy provenance of the volume, perhaps the book was bound in Normandy rather than Paris or Lyons.
Library Hub finds only one copy in the UK (Aberdeen) and OCLC but one in the US (Pennsylvania).
USTC 154932; Adams E-49; Pettegree & Walsby, French Books 69072.