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 Pijper : Disputations contra L^dJiernni 363 Priinitiae PontiUciac. Theologoruin Xccrlaiidiconiiii Disputationcs contra Liithermn inde ab a. i^iQ usque ad a. ij26 pronmlgatae collegit denuo edidit commentariis praeviis necnon adnotationibus instruxit F. Pijper. [Bibliotheca Reformatoria Neerlandica, Derde Deel.] (Hague: Martinus Nijhoff. 1905. Pp. xi, 642.) In the present volume Dr. Pijper, professor of Church History at the University of Leiden, reprints seven excessively rare Latin works directed chiefly against Luther. Each is reproduced complete, with the old marginal notes, all remarks by the editor being relegated to the foot of the page. The ancient spelling and punctuation are preserved, save that abbreviations are resolved and the hyphenation modernized. Each document has a long Dutch preface, explaining the genesis of the tract, with an analysis of its contents. The large amount of biograph- ical material which these introductions contain renders them almost vivacious ; the elaborate bibliographical and other notices are given in foot-notes. The works presented are as follows: (i) Dc tn'uiii lliiguaruiii et studii thcologici rationc dialogus, Antverpiae 1519. a work of the noted Jacobus Latomus (Masson), professor of theology at Louvain, defend- ing the study of the great scholastic theologians against humanistic criticism. Though apparently attacking Petrus Mosellanus, the author is really breaking lances with Erasmus himself. (2) Latomus De primatu Romani ponfificis (1525), a reply to Luther's Rcsolntio super propositionc sua tercia dccima de pot estate papae of 15 19. The intro- duction shows how the universities of Koln and Louvain differed on this vital subject. The incidental statement that Johann Eck was a Dominican (p. 89, cf. p. 502) is erroneous. (3) Errorum Martini Luther brevis confutatio per. . . Eustachium dc Zichenis (1521). The author, Eustachius vander Rivieren, named himself Van Zichem after his birthplace; he was a Dominican monk and professor of theol- og^ at Louvain (died 1538). The preface gathers valuable biographical notices from sources not easily accessible. (4) In 1523 the same author published Sacramentorum hrevis ehtcidatio, chiefly against Luther and his more radical admirers. The three works remaining are by Jakob van Hoogstraten (died 1527), a Dominican who became a leading pro- fessor of theology and inquisitor at Koln, the prosecutor of the cele- brated Reuchlin, and therefore a chief butt of the Epistolae obscurorum virorum. Dr. Pijper tells of Hoogstraten's life, of the literary attacks he endured, of his career as an inquisitor, and finally discusses him as an author. This preface is entertaining, and also excellent from the bibliographical point of view. (5) Dialogus de vcneratione et invoca- tloiie sanctorum, contra perMiam Lutheranam. . . Authore I. Phila- lethe, 1524. (6) De purgatorio (1525) attempts to prove against Lutheran objections that purgatory exists and that a satisfaction of divine justice takes place there. (7) Disputationcs contra Lutheranos AM. HIST. REV., VOL. XU. — 24.