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FIRST EDITION OF THE CANONS OF THE COUNCIL OF COLOGNEGropper, Johann...

FIRST EDITION OF THE CANONS OF THE COUNCIL OF COLOGNE

Gropper, Johann (editor).Canones Concilii Prouincialis Coloniensis: sub Reuerendiss. in Christo patre ac d[omi]no D. Hermanno S. Colonien[sis] Ecclesiae archiepiscopo ... celebrati, anno 1536: quibus adiectum est Encheridion [sic] Christianae institutionis. [Cologne]: Impress. Colo., anno XXXVIII [i.e. 1538]. [Colophon:] Ex aedibus Quentelianis, Anno domini, M.D. XXXVIII.

Folio, contemporary calf with blind-tooled decorations on both covers (spine restored), traces of brass clasps, pp. [20], ff. CCCXIII [i.e. 315], pp. [14].
A fine woodcut illustration (Crucified Jesus) on verso of leaf [XLVII bis] (sig. K2).

First edition of the Canons of the Council of Cologne (Köln, in German language) held in 1536 in which the archbishop Gropper took position against the Reform.

The work also contains the Institutio compendiaria doctrinae Christianae, in concilio provinciali pollicita by Johannes Gropper at leaves [XLVIIbis]-CCCXIII, followed by [13] pages of Tabula Enchiridii (index).

Johann Gropper (1503, Soest–1559, Rome) was a Roman Catholic church politician of the Reformation period.
After being made keeper of the seal of the archbishopric of Cologne, he was appointed scholasticus of St. Gerson in 1527. Gropper was an adherent of Erasmus, and aided the reform efforts of Hermann von Wied, archbishop of Cologne. This led him, after having completed his legal studies at Cologne in 1525, to devote himself to theological study. He edited the Landrecht of Cologne, and also the canons of the provincial council at Cologne held in 1536 (both published in 1538, together with a detailed manual of Christian doctrine which he had composed).
In both of these Gropper's Erasmian tendency showed itself; in both he took pains to make the Bible and the Church Fathers his point of departure. In many matters, especially in the doctrine of justification, he approximated Protestant views, but he did not approve of the doctrine of the Reformers concerning the concept and the organization of the Church. He championed the seven sacraments and the veneration of images and relics. He rejected the doctrine of the priesthood of believers, he defended the hierarchical order of the Middle Ages and the primacy of the pope, though on these very points his differences with the representatives of the papal system were apparent. Protestant and Jesuit writers alike censured the book.

References: OCLC 37245572.