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902J Kedd, Jodocus. (The anonymous compiler)

Jesuiter Schul darinn die Einfalt Wilhelmi Hulsii Weselischen Praedicanten abgelegt wird. Hierbey findet sich das Schul-Recht so dem Hulsio, Trewmann, Hasenmüller und andern Abtrinnigen, auff ihre wider die Societet Jesu fälschlich außgestrewete Calumnien geben ist.

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Zwölff Künstreiche Calvinische Atzelsprüng. 

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 Ewiges Elend der unglaubigen Durch einen Klaren bieveiSS vorgestellt und dargetan Das sein Lutherischer/Calvinischer fer/ socinianer .

    
Köln, Henrich Krafft for Johann Antonij Kinchius, 1649.           .                                                                Price $1,600

 
Duodecimo(15 cm).  a¹², A-P¹⁰.w/ A¹¹ B-D¹⁰ E⁴ f⁸ G¹² H¹² Bound in  vellum with manuscript spine title. This copy with Title with early institutional stamp reading “OFM · Bibliothecae Conventus Fuldensis · Frauenberg”—the library of the Franciscan monastery on the Frauenberg above Fulda, founded by the Ordo Fratrum Minorum in 1623. The Frauenberg friary rapidly became one of the intellectual centers of the re-Catholicized Prince-Abbotric of Fulda, maintaining a substantial theological and philosophical library that supported Franciscan teaching, preaching, and controversy literature throughout the seventeenth century.

The Frauenberg library was repeatedly dispersed and re-formed following the secularizations of 1802 and the Kulturkampf expulsions of 1875, yet its holdings remained largely intact until the order’s final withdrawal from Fulda in 2023–24, when the collection—then numbering roughly 150,000 volumes—was closed and deaccessioned. Books with the same stamp are recorded in the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek’s GND authority file, stamps to title recto and verso, the first fourteen leaves showing diminishing worm-track, occasional small marginal wormholes, moderate browning and spotting, binding slightly soiled and rubbed.

This is a fierce Jesuit polemic defending the Societas Jesu against the anti-Jesuit writings of the Reformed preacher Wilhelm Hulsius of Wesel, together with Trewmann, Hasenmüller, and other “apostates.” Issued at Cologne by Johann Krafft for the bookseller Johann Anton Kinchius, this compact octavo volume assembles a series of scholastic disputations and “Schul-Recht” (academic arguments) refuting charges of deceit, hypocrisy, and political intrigue circulated by Protestant pamphleteers in the Rhineland during the 1640s.

     The anonymous compiler—identified on the title as “J. Kedd”—was almost certainly a Jesuit associated with the Cologne college, adopting a pseudonym to protect himself amid escalating confessional tensions.  His Jesuiter Schulfunctions as both apologia and pedagogical manual, demonstrating through logical syllogisms the intellectual and moral superiority of Jesuit education against the “simple-mindedness” (Einfalt) of Hulsii and his followers. The appended sections (separately paginated) include juridical opinions, letters of censure, and illustrative case studies drawn from Jesuit disputations in Westphalia and the Lower Rhine. 

These works belong to the vigorous Jesuit-Protestant pamphlet exchange that followed the Thirty Years’ War, when Jesuit colleges sought to reaffirm their intellectual authority in re-Catholicized territories. Hulsius of Wesel had accused the Society of manipulative pedagogy and political interference; Jesuiter Schul turns those accusations on their head, portraying Hulsii and his allies as ignorant deserters from true learning. Its mixture of scholastic reasoning, satire, and forensic defense situates the book within the genre of apologiae scholasticae and makes it a telling specimen of mid-seventeenth-century Jesuit polemic literature from the Cologne press.

References: VD 17 12:114441L; not in Sommervogel; cf. Backer–Sommervogel IV, Cologne presses, and Waldhoff, Jesuitendrucke am Rhein (1982) p. 97.   OCLC locates:  Illinois and Switzerland ZENTRAL- UND HOCHSCHUL BIBLIOTHEK LUZERN.