Lot 426
Luther, Martin
Auction: 4 February 2009 at 11:00 GMT
Description
An iusta ratione Martinus Lutherus reformationis tragædiã moverit, doctum & eruditum cuiusdam idyllion [in elegiac couplets]. [Strassburg: Martin Flach, c.1521?]. 4to (190 x 143mm.), 4 leaves, 24 lines, Roman letter, decorated woodcut border on title page, modern paper wrapper, uncut, contemporary (or near-contemporary) manuscript annotations
Footnote
Note: RARE. We have been unable to trace another copy of this or any other edition of this anonymous poem, other than as part of a longer pamphlet, Luther's Christiana & inconsternata responsio... Wormatie facta, printed by Flach in 1521 (Benzing 907). In Luther, Werke, (Weimar Ausgabe), 7, 816-817, no details of the authorship of this poem are given, but merely a statement that it was reprinted in 1750.