Melanchthon, Philipp AUTOGRAPH LETTER TO JOHN HALES [JOHANNES ALESIUS ANGLUS] IN FRANKFURT "ON THE BANK OF THE RHEIN" thanking Hales for his kindness and friendship towards him, remarking that he is kept from his homeland, and lamenting the present state of the Church, "afflicted by tyrants and sophists"; he adds greetings from Caspar Peucer [who was not only Melanchthon's son-in-law but also the godson of John Hales, according to a letter of Melanchthon's of August 1555] 1 page, folio (320 x 205mm.), watermark of a shield [Briquet 836, Dresden & Leipzig 1553], deckle edges, integral autograph address panel, [Wittenberg], 15 May [1555?], light foxing together with an engraved portrait of Melanchthon (after Heinrich Aldegrever NH 185), printed by the London bookseller John Overton (active 1667-1703), 240 x 173mm., added to the letter by William Hamper (see provenance), slightly trimmed
Melanchthon, Philipp AUTOGRAPH LETTER TO JOHN HALES [JOHANNES ALESIUS ANGLUS] IN FRANKFURT "ON THE BANK OF THE RHEIN" thanking Hales for his kindness and friendship towards him, remarking that he is kept from his homeland, and lamenting the present state of the Church, "afflicted by tyrants and sophists"; he adds greetings from Caspar Peucer [who was not only Melanchthon's son-in-law but also the godson of John Hales, according to a letter of Melanchthon's of August 1555] 1 page, folio (320 x 205mm.), watermark of a shield [Briquet 836, Dresden & Leipzig 1553], deckle edges, integral autograph address panel, [Wittenberg], 15 May [1555?], light foxing together with an engraved portrait of Melanchthon (after Heinrich Aldegrever NH 185), printed by the London bookseller John Overton (active 1667-1703), 240 x 173mm., added to the letter by William Hamper (see provenance), slightly trimmed
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