Historia de vita et actis reuerendiss. uiri D. Mart. Lutheri verae theologiae doctoris
By: bona fide conscripta, a Philippo Melanthone. Adiecta sunt quaedam quae pagina versa indicabit
Contributors: Pollicarius, Johannes, active 1544, ed; Cranach, Lucas, 1515-1586, engraver
Series: German books before 1601 -- roll 8, item 54
Publisher: Ex Officina Iohannis Lufft
Published: 1549
Place of publication: Witebergae [i.e. Wittenberg]
Language: lat; ger; grc
Number of pages: 94
Other titles: Oratio in funere reverendi viri D. Martini Lutheri.
Notes: Signatures: A-E⁸, F⁷; [A] unsigend, F8 blank; F4 missigned "E4"

Text in Latin includes some poetry by J. Pollicarius on Luther in Greek and Luther's "Here I stand" in German.

"Oratio in funere reverendi viri D. Martini Lutheri, recitata Vuittebergae à Philippo Melanthone", p. [92]-[107]

Includes J. Pollicarius' Carmina quaedam de beneficiis ... and Distichia aliquot de Actis Lutheri ... [from verso of title page]

Portrait-medallion of M. Luther on title page by L. Cranach d.J.; initials throughout.

Edited by J. Pollicarius.

Hartfelder, Melanchthon, 430.

BM STC German, 1455-1600, p. 612.

Adams M-1155.

Pegg, Bibliotheca, 1629.

Pegg, Swiss, 3986.

VD 16 M 3418.