PIGHIUS [or PIGGE], ALBERTUS. Controversiarum, quibus nunc exagitatur Christi fides et religio diligens & luculenta explicatio. Title within woodcut historiated architectural border. [4], 204 [i. e., 206], [1] (of [2]) leaves; lacks last (blank?) leaf. 4to, 209x156 mm, contemporary limp vellum with calligraphic spine title in ink; light dampstaining and worming in blank margins of opening leaves, blank lower margin of title excised, blank lower outer corner off n4, free endpapers excised. [Ingolstadt: Alexander Weissenhorn], (1541)
first edition of a review from a Catholic perspective of doctrinal issues raised at the 1540-41 colloquies of Worms and Regensburg. Pigge (d. 1542) "played a notable role in defending the Roman Catholic church against the Reformation" (Contemporaries of Erasmus III, 85).
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