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Martin Luther, John Bugenhagen, Justus Jonas, Philip Melanchthon ("most learned man in Germany") collaborated on the brief of their case. Melanchthon wrote...
...16th Century was a period of burning religious modifications. Martin Luther (1483-1546) in Germany led the revolt for Reformation against the current Catholicism. There Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560) followed and modified somewhat Luther's tenets. To Switzerland John Calvin (1509-64), a Frenchman, migrated, learned the doctrine of Huldreich Zwingli (1484-1531). The Lutheran Church follows Luther's teachings. The Presbyterian and the Reformed Churches follow those of Calvin and Zwingli...
...Plimpton of Boston. Among the notable specimens are: Wilson's Rhetoriche and Logiche, Hart's Orthographie, the first English edition of Record's Arithmetic, the Dialogues of Corderius, and other school books used in the latter part of the sixteenth century. Another interesting volume is a copy of Melanchthon's Greek Grammar. This was the reformer's own copy of the work and has numerous annotations in his handwriting...
...whole case is given up to the "Liber Studiorum" of Turner and beside these are placed some valuable etchings by Claude Lorraine. There are some beautiful impressions by Durer from "The Melencolia," "The Great Fortune," and "The Shield and Skull." In addition to these are his portraits of Melanchthon, Piekheimer and Erasmus. These are all metal engravings. Among the wood engravings by Durer are a number from "The Great Passion," and "The Little Passion," which are two of his most valuable series of wood cuts...
...leaders of the Reformation proper, the tracts and sermons of Luther count here by hundreds, while those of Zwingli, Melanchthon and Calvin, and Bullinger, Brentz, Bucer, Jonas, Bugenhagen, as of their opponents, Eck, Emser and Cochleus and Murner are only less numerous. Here is the first edition of the works of Zwingli, and the great Walch editions of those of Luther. - New York Star...