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Alternative title

Letters of Bucer, Melanchthon etc.

Type of resource

mixed material

Extent

pp. 446 numbered

Date created

[ca. 1400-1499]

Language

Latin, Greek, Modern (1453- ), English

Material

Paper

Height (mm)

315

Width (mm)

220

Writing

In two hands

Foliation

ff. i-iii + pp. 1-4 + 4a-5a + 5-14 (15-18 missing) + 19-72 + 72a-73a + 73-166 + 166a-167a + 167-206 + ff. 207a-h + 207j-k + pp. 209-228 + ff. 229-230 + pp. 231-328 + 328a-l + 329-446 + ff. iv-v

Additions

A fragment of the xvth cent. service-book, pasted over, serves as flyleaf. (ff. iiir-iiiv)

Summary

Matthew Parker's manuscript collection naturally reflects his interest in Reformation theology and theologians and the religious debates which took place in the sixteenth century. MS 113 is one of the compilations of tracts and letters Parker assembled from his collection. About half the volume consists of letters written by prominent men such as Martin Bucer (1491-1551) and Philipp Melanchthon (1497-1560) and the other half consists mainly of tracts written by such men. Topics addressed in these tracts and letters include issues such as the abolition of altars and clerical marriage. The manuscript dates to the third quarter of the sixteenth century.

Contents

Letter of Martin Bucer to Princess Elizabeth sister of Edward VI dated September 1549 -- Letter of Roger Ascham to Princess Elizabeth dated November 1550 -- Letter of Martin Bucer to the Marquis of Dorchester dated 26 December 1550 -- Letter of Martin Bucer to the Marquis of Northampton -- Letter of Martin Bucer to James Haddon dated at Cambridge 22 May 1550 -- Letter of Martin Bucer to John Cheke dated at Cambridge 3 December 1550 -- Reasons why the lord's board should rather be after the form of a table than of an altar -- Letter of Martin Bucer on the abolition of altars -- Letter of Martin Bucer to Johann Gropper dated at Bonn (?) January 1543 -- Letter of Martin Bucer to Johann Gropper dated at Bonn (?) February 1543 -- Letter of Martin Bucer to the Elector of Brandenburg dated at Augsburg April 1548 -- Letter of Martin Bucer to the synod of Cologne dated at Bonn (?) February 1543 -- Letter of Martin Bucer dated 17 May 1547 -- Letter of Martin Bucer to Henry Bullinger dated at Augsburg January 1545 -- Letter of Martin Bucer to Theodor Buchmann (Theodor Bibliander) -- Letter of Johann Sturm to Roger Ascham dated at Augsburg September 1550 -- Letter of Martin Schelling to the people of Augsburg dated at Wolfach (?) September 1541 -- Letter of Philipp Melanchthon to Martin Bucer dated January -- The opinion of T. Redmain in favor of priests' marriage -- De coniugio sacerdotum -- On simoniacs -- On the sanctity of churches -- Discourse against alienation of the revenues of the church -- On the alienability of church dignities -- On the abolition of superstition -- Tract on the reform of the ministry of the church -- On the security of church appointments from lay interference -- Letter on the security of church appointments from lay interference -- Instructions of inquisitions in Germany temp. Emperor Charles V -- Letter of Jacob Sadolet to P. Carol dated at Carpentras April 1539 -- Tract addressed to Martin Bucer on human and divine law -- On the legitimacy of clerical marriage -- On the errors of the anabaptists -- Letter of Jacob Acontius -- The errors of the anabaptistical doctrine -- Letter of Martin Bucer to John Cheke dated at Cambridge 29 August 1550 -- Letter of John Sturm to Martin Bucer -- Letter of Robert Lockhart to Martin Bucer dated August 1548 -- Letter of Martin Bucer to Richard Bonner dated 4 September 1548 -- Letter of Charles V dated at Augsburg 29 June 1546 -- Archbishop Matthew Parker's table of the degrees prohibited in marriage -- Prayer recited before the Danish king -- That bishops do not require the judgment of the laity in divine matters -- De re sacramentaria -- Response to John Lasco's annotations to Bucer's Fifty-Four Aphorisms -- Theological discussion on the prohibited degrees of marriage to the sister of a wife who is still alive -- Brief argument from canon law on the prohibition of marrying the sister of a wife who is still alive -- Letter from cardinal Wolsey to the king's embassadors at Rome dated Hampton-court Oct. 4, 1523 -- Letter of George Cranmer to Robert Horne bishop of Winchester

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Contains

• Letter of Martin Bucer to Princess Elizabeth sister of Edward VI dated September 1549. 1-4

  Nasmith

  Epistola [Buceri] ad dominam Elizabetham regis sororem, data Lambethae 6 kal. Sept. 1549: in qua commendat ei peregrinum quendam qui religionis ergo in Angliam venerat. 1-4

  Author

  Martin Bucer

• Letter of Roger Ascham to Princess Elizabeth dated November 1550. 4a-5a

  Nasmith

  Epistola [ut videtur Aschami] data 13 kal. Nov. 1550, mittit dominae Elizabethae duo exemplaria libelli a Sturmio editi nomine autoris. 4a-5a

  Author

  Roger Ascham

• Letter of Martin Bucer to the Marquis of Dorchester dated 26 December 1550. 5-12

  Nasmith

  Epistola [Buceri] ad Marchionem Dorcestrensem data 26 Dec. 1550, gratulatur ei quod in concilium supremum cooptatus esset, et multis argumentis suadet, ne bona ecclesiae olim dicata in alios usus alienentur, sed ad ministros Dei sustentandos et alios pios usus omnino applicentur. 5-12

  Author

  Martin Bucer

  Note

  See Gasquet and Bishop, Edward VI and the Book of Common Prayer, p. 268 note

• Letter of Martin Bucer to the Marquis of Northampton. 13-20

  Nasmith

  Epistola [Buceri] ad marchionem Northamptonensem, in qua orat ut pensio assignetur Sleidano a rege, ut historiam suam reformationis ecclesiae jam dudum inceptam perficere queat. 13-20

  Author

  Martin Bucer

• Letter of Martin Bucer to James Haddon dated at Cambridge 22 May 1550. 21-30

  Nasmith

  Epistola [Buceri] ad I. Haddonum data Cantabrigiae 22 Maii, 1550, de matrimonio contracto et consummate invitis parentibus. 21-30

  Author

  Martin Bucer

  Note

  In two hands, dictated by Bucer
  (27) cum per manuum imbecillitatem non possem scribere

• Letter of Martin Bucer to John Cheke dated at Cambridge 3 December 1550. 31-38

  Nasmith

  Epistola [Buceri] ad Iohannem Chekum de causa cujusdam Blithi collegii Jesu socii, qui papisticae superstitioni addictus praeter duo beneficia ecclesiastica sodalitio et optimo cubiculo adhuc fruebatur, et nepotem suum in sodalitio successorem instituere nitebatur; data Cantabrigiae 3 Dec. 1550. 31-38

  Author

  Martin Bucer

• Reasons why the lord's board should rather be after the form of a table than of an altar. 39-40

  Nasmith

  Reasons why the lordes boorde shoulde rather be after the forme of a table than of an aultar. 39-40

  Note

  Imprynted at London by Richard Grafton printer to the kings majestie, 1550
  See Gasquet and Bishop, Edward VI and the Book of Common Prayer, p. 266

• Letter of Martin Bucer on the abolition of altars. 41-44

  Nasmith

  Epistola Buceri de demoliendis altaribus. 41-44

  Author

  Martin Bucer

  Note

  See Gasquet and Bishop, Edward VI and the Book of Common Prayer, p. 266: Gorham, Gleanings, p. 209

• Letter of Martin Bucer to Johann Gropper dated at Bonn (?) January 1543. 45-56

  Nasmith

  Epistola Buceri ad Gropperum data Bonnae postridie circumcisionis 1543, in qua se defendit quod secundam uxorem eamque viduam contra canones duxerat. 45-56

  Author

  Martin Bucer

• Letter of Martin Bucer to Johann Gropper dated at Bonn (?) February 1543. 57-68

  Nasmith

  Epistola Buceri ad eundem data Bonnae pridie kalendas Februarias 1543, in qua se vindicat contra Colonienses, quibus ut Lutheranus minus gratus erat. 57-68

  Author

  Martin Bucer

  Note

  Burnet, History of the Reformation (Records no. XIX, V. 177, ed. Pocock)

• Letter of Martin Bucer to the Elector of Brandenburg dated at Augsburg April 1548. 69-94

  Nasmith

  Epistola Buceri data Augustae ex illustr. princ. elector. Brandeburg diversorio Apr. 13, 1548, in qua summam doctrinae suae tradit, et ecclesiarum reconciliatione agit. 69-94

  Author

  Martin Bucer

• Letter of Martin Bucer to the synod of Cologne dated at Bonn (?) February 1543. 95-118

  Nasmith

  Epistola Buceri ad patres synodum celebraturos [in dioecesi Coloniensi] data Bonnae 9 Feb. 1543, in qua totam doctrinae et fidei suae rationem eis declarat. 95-118

  Author

  Martin Bucer

• Letter of Martin Bucer dated 17 May 1547. 119-126

  Nasmith

  Epistola Buceri data 17 Maii 1547, in qua agit de rebus Germanicis praesertim de pace cum imperatore facta. 119-126

  Author

  Martin Bucer

• Letter of Martin Bucer to Henry Bullinger dated at Augsburg January 1545. 127-130

  Nasmith

  Epistola Buceri ad Bullingerum data Argentorati 21 Jan. 1545, in qua agit de libro Bullingeri contra Cochleum, et de dissentione inter doctores ecclesiae reformatae de eucharistia quam valde deplorat, additque quaedam de presenti statu Germaniae et de concilio Trident. a Paulo III revocato. 127-130

  Author

  Martin Bucer

• Letter of Martin Bucer to Theodor Buchmann (Theodor Bibliander). 131-140

  Nasmith

  Epistola Buceri ad Bibliandrum de Carlostadio, de controversia inter Lutherum et Zuinglium, et de suis [Buceri] retractionibus. 131-140

  Author

  Martin Bucer

• Letter of Johann Sturm to Roger Ascham dated at Augsburg September 1550. 141-154

  Nasmith

  Epistola Sturmii ad Aschamum data Argentorati nonis Sept. 1550, in qua fuse agit de ratione quam observat in juvenibus instituendis, et dicit se misisse duo exemplaria sui libelli regi et dominae Elizabethae sorori ejus. 141-154

  Author

  Johann Sturm

  Note

  Aschami Epistolae 1703, p. 23

• Letter of Martin Schelling to the people of Augsburg dated at Wolfach (?) September 1541. 155-164

  Nasmith

  Epistola Martini Schellingi ad Argentinenses data Wolfachiae 10 Sept. 1541, de eis quae in ecclesia Argentinensi adhuc sint corrigenda. 155-164

  Author

  Martin Schelling

• Letter of Philipp Melanchthon to Martin Bucer dated January. 165-168

  Nasmith

  Epistola Philippi Melanchtonis ad Bucerum data 12 die Jan. quod imperator et rex Gallicus consenserunt ut concilium generale per pontificem indiceretur et Tridenti haberetur. 165-168

  Author

  Philipp Melanchthon

  Note

  Autograph

• The opinion of T. Redmain in favor of priests' marriage. 174-174

  Nasmith

  The opinion of T. Redmain in favor of their marriage. 174-174

  Author

  T. Redmain

  Note

  MS 114. 132
  Burnet, History of the Reformation (Records no. XXX, V. 231)

• John MacAlpine (Maccabeus), De coniugio sacerdotum. 175-188

  Nasmith

  De conjugio sacerdotum, an liceat sacris initiatis contrahere matrimonium: affirmatur. autore Iohanne Macchabeo Scoto. 175-188

  Author

  John MacAlpine (Maccabeus)

• On simoniacs. 197-200

  Nasmith

  An simoniacum sit necnon aliquid exigere ab eo qui ad praebendam assumi debet ecclesiasticam, quocunque illud nomine exigatur ? negatur. 197-200

• On the sanctity of churches. 201-206

  Nasmith

  An templa consecrata filio Dei bona conscientia Anti-christo sint deferenda ? negatur. 201-206

• Matthew Parker, Discourse against alienation of the revenues of the church. 207ar-207ev

  Nasmith

  Non debere res ecclesiasticas, ad publicum sacri ministerii usum destinatas, ad alios usus aut ad privatas hominum commoditates transferri; et proinde non posse bona cum conscientia episcopum aliquem designatum aut designandum hujusmodi alienationibus consentire. 207ar-207ev

  Author

  Matthew Parker

  Note

  Strype, Parker, Appendix 7

• On the alienability of church dignities. 207fr-207gv

  Nasmith

  An liceat ecclesiasticae personae ea conditione dignitatem ecclesiasticam acceptare, ut post susceptionem aliquos proventus illius dignitatis ab ecclesia alienaret in perpetuum ? negatur. 207fr-207gv

• On the abolition of superstition. 207hr-207kv

  Nasmith

  An deleri possunt quorum usu in superstitione, &c. 207hr-207kv

• Tract on the reform of the ministry of the church. 209-228

  Nasmith

  Tractatus, quod reformatio sacri ministerii dum illud episcopi et presbiteri negligunt, ad quos cum primis pertinet ecclesiis sua munia instaurare, illis competit, qui in eo populo, cui sacrum ministerium restituendum est, potestatem gladii administrant et non Caesari, nisi illi officium hac in re suum negligant. 209-228

• On the security of church appointments from lay interference. 231-232

  Nasmith

  An liceat recipere seu restituere in ecclesiis nostris adiaphora spe impetrandae pacis, et hac qualicunque moderatione mitigandi iram imperatoris, ne prorsus expellat ex ecclesiis nostris pios pastores. 231-232

• Letter on the security of church appointments from lay interference. 233-234

  Nasmith

  Epistola de eadem re. 233-234

• Instructions of inquisitions in Germany temp. Emperor Charles V. 235-242

  Nasmith

  Instructio inquisitorum inferioris Germaniae, tempore imperatoris Caroli V. 235-242

• Letter of Jacob Sadolet to P. Carol dated at Carpentras April 1539. 243-254

  Nasmith

  Epistola Jacobi Caroli Sadoleti episcopi Carpentor, ad P. Carolum data Carpentoracti 13 kal. Apr. 1539, de purgatorio. 243-254

  Author

  Jacob Sadolet

• Stephen Gardiner, Tract addressed to Martin Bucer on human and divine law. 255-274

  Nasmith

  Tractatus Stephani Gardiner episcopi Winton, ad Bucerum scriptus, in quo probare conatur, contemptum humanae legis justa autoritate latae gravius et severius vindicandum quam divinae legis qualemcunque transgressionem. 255-274

  Author

  Stephen Gardiner

• On the legitimacy of clerical marriage. 275-278

  Nasmith

  An liceat episcopo aut sacerdoti, post ademptum episcopatum aut sacerdotium, ducere uxorem ? affirmatur. 275-278

• On the errors of the anabaptists. 279-280

  Nasmith

  Praecipui quidam anabaptistarum errores. 279-280

  Note

  Also on p. 289

• Letter of Jacob Acontius. 281-290

  Nasmith

  Epistola I. Acontii, in qua defendit opinionem suam in ecclesiastico senatu allatam de diversis significationibus του semen in sacris scripturis cum notis refutatoriis margini passim inscriptis. 281-290

  Author

  Jacob Acontius

• The errors of the anabaptistical doctrine. 291-302

  Nasmith

  The errors of the anabaptistical doctrine wourthely condempned of the churche of God, if there be any as yet infected with them, and we being followers of the same churche condemne them also. 291-302

• Letter of Martin Bucer to John Cheke dated at Cambridge 29 August 1550. 303-306

  Nasmith

  Epistola [ut videtur Buceri] ad Chekum de quodam domino Jungio, qui publice praelegerat in priorem epistolam ad Timotheum, et de disputatione cum eo habenda, data Cantabrigiae 29 Aug. 1550. 303-306

  Author

  Martin Bucer

  Note

  Cf. MS 102. 1 sqq.

• Letter of John Sturm to Martin Bucer. 307-308

  Nasmith

  Epistola Sturmii ad Bucerum de statu persequutorum in Gallia. 307-308

  Author

  John Sturm

• Letter of Robert Lockhart to Martin Bucer dated August 1548. 309-314

  Nasmith

  Epistola Roberti Lockhart ad Bucerum, data mense Augusto 1549, in qua proponit ei multas questiones de matrimonio inter regem Edwardum et reginam Scotiae olim contracto et nuper dissoluto, utrum licite fuerit contractum vel dissolutum, et quandam partem amplecti deberent Scoti in bello hac ex causa orto. 309-314

  Author

  Robert Lockhart

• Letter of Martin Bucer to Richard Bonner dated 4 September 1548. 315-324

  Nasmith

  Epistola Buceri ad Richardum Bonerum, data 4 Sept. 1548, respondet quaestioni sibi propositae, utrum verborum Christi simplex recitatio in coenae Domini celebratione observatu sit necessaria. 315-324

  Author

  Martin Bucer

• Letter of Charles V dated at Augsburg 29 June 1546. 325-328

  Nasmith

  Epistola data Argentorati 29 Jun. 1546, de scripto Caroli V. imperatoris contra principes Germaniae. 325-328

  Author

  Charles V

• Archbishop Matthew Parker's table of the degrees prohibited in marriage. 328a-328l

  Nasmith

  Archbishop Parker's table of the degrees prohibited in marriage. 328a-328l

  Author

  Archbishop Matthew Parker

  Note

  Two different impressions, one in 1560 with several marginal notes in the bishop's own hand

• Prayer recited before the Danish king. 329-340

  Nasmith

  Oratio habita coram rege Daniae a quodam legato vel oratore ducis Somersetensis Angliae protectoris. 329-340

• That bishops do not require the judgment of the laity in divine matters. 341-344

  Nasmith

  Episcoporum in rebus divinis non laicorum judicium esse requirendum. 341-344

  Note

  Cf. MS 105. 14

• Thomas Cranmer, De re sacramentaria. 345-390

  Nasmith

  Excerpta plurima ex veteribus patribus de re sacramentaria, ubi multis argumentis probatur panem in eucharistia non transubstantiari. 345-390

  Author

  Thomas Cranmer

• Martin Bucer, Response to John Lasco's annotations to Bucer's Fifty-Four Aphorisms. 391-410

  Nasmith

  Responsio Buceri ad D. J. Alasco in expensione aphorismorum ejus de sacro eucharistiae. 391-410

  Author

  Martin Bucer

  Note

  Autograph
  Hoc studiorum postremum esse scriptum M. Buceri annotavit M. Parker

• Theological discussion on the prohibited degrees of marriage to the sister of a wife who is still alive. 411-416

  Nasmith

  Interpretatio theologorum et argumenta ex libris juris-consultorum in jus illud Leviticum, sororem uxoris tuae in pellicatum non accipies adhuc illa vivente. 411-416

  Note

  Cf. MS 105. 8, MS 340. 23

• Brief argument from canon law on the prohibition of marrying the sister of a wife who is still alive. 417-430

  Nasmith

  Argumenta breviter collecta ex libris jurisconsultorum quod quis non possi accipere in uxorem sororem uxoris praemortuae. 417-430

  Note

  Cf. MS 105. 8, MS 340. 23

• Letter from cardinal Wolsey to the king's embassadors at Rome dated Hampton-court Oct. 4, 1523. 431-438

  Nasmith

  Letter from cardinal Wolsey to the king's embassadors at Rome, directing them how to proceed in their negotiations with the cardinals for his election to the papal See then vacant: dated Hampton-court Oct. 4, 1523. 431-438

  Author

  cardinal Wolsey

  Note

  Burnet, History of the Reformation (Records no. XLVIII, p. ccxxxv, ed. 1850)

• Letter of George Cranmer to Robert Horne bishop of Winchester. 439-446

  Nasmith

  Epistola Georgii Cranmeri ad Robertum Horne episcopum Winton de necessitate reformationis in collegiis Winton et Oxon. a Wichamo fundatis. 439-446

  Author

  George Cranmer

  Note

  (445) A short post-script in English by Grindall bishop of London testifying his approbation of the letter

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