Fontanus, Jacobus.

Chiericato, Francesco. Oratio habita Nurimbergae in senatu Principum Germaniae xiii Cal. Decembris, MDXXII. [Nuremberg: Friedrich Peypus, 1522], 6ff., title within woodcut border, [VD16 C2236; Turcica 140]
[Diet of Nuremberg] Gravamina Germaniae nationis ad Carolum electum Ro. regem. (Cologne: Eucharius Cervicornus and Hero Fuchs, August 1520), 14ff., title within woodcut border, [VD16 R740]
Hadrian VI, Pope. In hoc libello pontificii oratoris continentur legatio, in conventu Norembergensi, Anno MDxxii inchoato... (Nuremberg: Friedrich Peypus, 1523), 64ff. (last leaf blank), title within woodcut border, [VD16 K321], early manuscript note of purchase dated 1523 at foot of title
Ladislaus, de Macedonia. Oratio habita Norimbergae contra Senatu Principum... pro expeditione in Turcos suscipienda, iii. Cal. Decembr. M.D.XXII. [Nuremberg: Friedrich Peypus, 1522], 10ff. (last leaf blank), title within woodcut border, large woodcut armorial of the Fratres Macedones on verso of title-page, [VD16 M20; Turcica 149]
Clement VII, Pope. Bulla indictionis anni Jubilei proximis. [Cologne: Peter Quentel, 1524], 8ff., small woodcut papal arms on title-page, large woodcut papal arms on final leaf (otherwise blank), [VD16 K335], manuscript purchase date on last leaf of 4 November 1524
Pro divo Carolo... apologetici libri duo...(Mainz: Johann Schoeffer, September 1527), [2], 218, [2]pp., title within woodcut border, woodcut initials, manuscript purchase date on last leaf of 12 October 1527
[Valdés, Alfonso de] Apologia altera refutatoria illius quae est pacti Madriciae conventionis dissuasoria. (Rome: Nicetas Pistophilus [i.e. Basel: Johannes Faber aus Emmich], 1528), 22ff., [Censimento 16 CNCE 35050; VD16 V53]
Velius, Caspar Ursinus. Oratio habita in Alba Regali, die felicissimae coronationis inclyti ac potentiss. Ferdinandi Ungariae Boemiaeque Regis. (Basel: Joannes Hervagius and Hieronymus Froben, 1528), 12ff., woodcut printer's device on title-page and final verso (otherwise blank), [VD16 U365]
Fabri, Joannes. Moscovitarum iuxta mare glaciale religio. (Basel: Joannes Bebel, January 1526), 18ff., [VD16 F189], manuscript purchase date on last leaf of 14 April 1526 "a Kobergio", i.e. from Koberger the Nuremberg bookseller
Hetoum, Prince of Georgia. Liber historiarum partium orientis, sive passagium terrae sanctae. Hagenau: Johannes Secer, 1529, 72ff. (last leaf blank), title within woodcut border, woodcut printer's device on final leaf, [VD16 H870], manuscript purchase date on last leaf of April 1529

11 works in one volume, 4to (195 x 144mm.), Gravamina bound first, contemporary German binding of blind-tooled calf, over wooden boards, with a note in red ink at the back stating it was bound in 1529, metal cornerpieces, two clasps, paper index tabs, contemporary manuscript list of contents on front flyleaf, binding rubbed, spine torn and defective, lacking both straps

Hector Poemer (1495-1541), provost of St Lawrence in Nuremberg, woodcut armorial bookplate (he also had a similar but larger bookplate designed by Albrecht Dürer dated 1525); Law Society, armorial bookplate

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A strictly contemporary collection of German tracts, some with their dates of purchase and with the date of binding, belonging to the last provost of St Lawrence in Nuremberg, which was the first church in Germany to become Lutheran in 1525.

Chiericato's speech at the Diet of Nuremberg set forth Hadrian VI's anti-Lutheran agenda as well as his desire to progress with his crusade against the Turks. The following work by the Pope includes a list of the annual tax required from each church and monastery across Christendom: St Augustine's in Canterbury was due to pay the massive sum of 1,300 florins, and Westminster 2,000 florins.