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Collection of letters of the promoters and opponents of the Protestant reformation : primarily Germany, 1497-1560.

BIB_ID
283755
Accession number
MA 376.1-47
Display Date
1497-1560.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description
47 items, unbound ; size varies
Notes
Four items (.9, .23, .36, .44) were added to the collection after 1907.
Provenance
Purchased from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1907.
Summary
Collection consists of 47 letters and documents of Nicolaus von Amsdorff, Théodore de Bèze, Heinrich Bullinger, Jean Calvin, Thomas Cranmer, Paul Eber, Desiderius Erasmus, Georg, Duke of Saxony, Nicolaus von Hausmann, Burghart Hundt, Ulrich von Hutten, Johann, Herzog von Sachsen-Lauenburg, Pope Leo X, Martin Luther, Georg Major, Philipp Melanchton, Thomas Murner, Sebastian von Burtenbach Schertlin, Hieronymus Schurff, Georg Spalatin, Ulrich Zwingli, and others. Items have been cataloged individually in 47 records (MA 376.1-47); see related records for full description.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (38 cm)