Confessio, oder, Bekentnis des Glaubens
Subtitle: durch den durchleuchtigsten, hochgebornen Fürsten vnd Herrn, Herrn Iohans Hertzogen zu Sachssen, Chürfürsten &c. vnd etliche Fürsten vnd Stedte, vberantwort Keiserlicher Maiestat, auff dem Reichstag, gehalten zu Augspurgk, Anno 1530. Vnd dieser Confession Repetitio, geschrieben von wegen des Concilij zu Trident Anno 1551
Publisher: Durch Georgen Rhawen Erben
Published: 1555
Place of publication: Wittemberg
Language: ger
Translated from: lat
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: Lutheran Church; Doctrines; Early works to 1800; Doctrinal Theology
Other titles: Bekentnis des Glaubens; Saxon Confession.
Work titles: Augsburg Confession
Notes: Texts of the Augsburg and Saxon confessions written by Philipp Melanchthon.

"Vnd durch den durchleuchtigsten, hochgebornen Fürsten vnd Herrn, Herrn Augustum Hertzogen zu Sachssen, Chürfürsten &c. von wegen der Visitation jtzt wider in Druck verordnet, Anno 1555."

Name of printer and date of publication from colophon which reads: Gedruckt zu Wittemberg, durch Georgen Rhawen Erben, 1555.

Signatures: A-2H⁴.

Title in red and black.

Black letter.

VD16, C 4756

Niedner 1372.

Appended to the printed text are several early (late 16th or 17th century?) manuscript essays (32 leaves) in Latin and German, in one or more hands. The topics treated are doctrinal (e.g. the Lord's Supper and real presence) and appear to related to the content of the Augsburg Confession. The annotator has not yet been identified.

A reused binding? Alum tawed pigskin; rolled in blind including portrait medallion pattern, roll includes date of 1541; one metal clasp wanting; this printed work is bound before other works in manuscript.