‎CHYTREUS David - (Chytraeus) - Luc Le COP ( translator) :‎
‎Histoire de la confession d'Avxpovrg, contenante les principauls Traittez & Ordonnances, faittes pour la Religion, quand l'Electeur Iehan, Duc de Saxe avec Les Citez & autres Princes Protestants presenterent leur confession de foy (icy inserée) a l'Empereur Charles V, es Estats generauls de l'Empire, tenus a Auxpourg, 1530.‎

‎" Anvers (Antwerpen), Chez Arnould Coninx, 1582., in-4°, title with large woodcut vignette +(7) + 835 pp + (5) pp, full 18th century marbled calf , raised gilt back with title label, edges painted red, marbled endpapers, with an engraved ex-libris of the Bauffremont family with the caption; ''Dieu ayde au premier chretien et plus bas ; Plus de Deuil que de Joye'' pasted on the first pastedown fly leaf. Minimal damage at the headcap and at three corners of the binding, upper margin a bit shaved (never in the text), a fine copy. Belgica Typographica n°620, Graesse II, 154, not in Adams. USTC 5924. French translation of ''Historia Confessionis Augustanae'' first published in Rostock in 1576. This work includes many texts on the history and the organisation of the Reformation by Luther, Melanchton, Erasmus, etc. . David Chytreus (or Chytraeus)(1530-1600) studied in Tübingen and in Wittenberg with Melanchton. His real name was Kochhafe. He became professor at Rostock university and was also involved in the foundation of the Helmstedt university. This edition, published in Antwerp during the short period (1581-1585) when the reformists were in control of the town, is very rare. In 1585 the town was besieged and taken by the catholic Spanish troops. All protestants fled and the ensuing counter-reformation wiped out nearly all traces of protestantism. The first edition of this text was in Latin (1578). The translator Luc Le Cop was a Savoyard living in Antwerp."‎

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