795J Lucas Lossius (1508-1582)
Erotemata Dialeticae Et Rhetoricae Philippi Melanchthonis :breuia ac dilucida, & item praeceptionum D. Erasmi Roterodami, devtraeque Copia Verborum & rerum :iam primum ad usum Scholarum (quas Volant Triviales) ediscendi gratia compendiose selecta 7 contracta. å
Frankfurt: Haeredes, Christiani Egenolphi, 1583. Price $2,300
Octavo 16 x 10cm. Signatures A-X8 (X8 is colophon and present) This is a very clean copy, the online copies are very browned. This copy is bound in the original blind stamped pig skin over boards, with spine covered in paper at a later date; text with early ink underlining and occasional marginal notes. There is one woodcut diagram of the square of opposition, with red and green wash. Edges red from bolus armenus.
First published in 1552. Lucas Lossius (1508-1582) was a German Lutheran theologian and educator. He studied in Wittenberg, where he became acquainted with Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon. These two would write a letter of recommendation for Lossius, and this would secure for him a job as secretary to Urbanus Rhegius in Luneburg. A year later he became a teacher, and he would continue in the role of educator until his death.
Lucas Lossius, schoolmaster in Lüneburg, and student and intimate of Luther and Melanchthon, wrote this devotional piece for his patroness, Dorothea Semmelbecher of Lüneburg, to offer her comfort at the loss of her son and other unnamed sorrows in her life. In view of this fact, it is particularly touching that the printer has placed a wood-engraving of the New Testament narrative of the raising of the son of the widow at Nain (Luke 7:11–17) beneath the title and that Lossius names the mourning woman who begins the dialogue “Dorothea.”
BSB-ID 991100546189707356: BV012590374:OCLC 634191821
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Renaissance Rhetoric Short-title Catalogue 1460-1700 Page 188 & 306
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