Beschrijving
Lugd. Batav.(Leiden): Apud Felicez Lopez de Hayo, 1669,(10)+ 340+(20)pp. engraved titlepage by I. Wyngaerd, handwritten name of previous owner in ink on second free endpaper ‘J. Brugman’, part of first free endpaper cut off, full vellum spitsel binding, faded title in ink on spine, very good and clean copy, written by Johannes Sleidanus or Sleidan (1506 – 31 October 1556) who was a Luxembourgish historian and annalist of the Reformation.Johannes Sleidanus (1506-1556) was born as Jean Philippson, later named himself after his native village, Schleiden (in Latin, Sleida). He studied ancient languages and literatures at Liège and Cologne, and law and jurisprudence at Paris and Orléans. He became professor in Strasbourg and often involved then in French and Church diplomatic missions. His main work is : De statu religionis et rei publicae Carolo V. Caesare commentarii the condition of the religion and the state under the Emperor Charles V.; and this – De quattuor monarchiis, a textbook of world history under the criterion of the Biblical theory of the four world realms and important in the study of Reformation history and theology. Sleidanus was one of the three historians of the German Reformation who dominated both Catholic and Protestant citations, the other two being Hospinien and Chytraeus
