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Defence of the Seven Sacraments (Assertio Septem Sacramentorum)

A signed copy in Royal Collection
https://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/1006836/assertio-septem-sacramentorum-adversus-martinum-lutherum

>> This copy is signed by Henry and was probably one of those he sent to cardinals in Rome.

>> The title page has a wood-block border which is a copy of a design by Hans Holbein the Younger for the Basel printer Froben.

>> Presented by Cardinal William Allen to the English College at Rome, c.1590,

Editions and translations

 * url Wignacourt

A copy of 1562 Paris edition, now in Malta


 * url A Companion to the Early Printed Book in Britain, 1476-1558

p. 162: [1st edition] "printed by Pynson in 1521"

"After Pynson's first edition, Henry's Assertio had been immediately reprinted in Rome (1521, 1522), Strasburg (1522) and Antwerp (1522)"

Richard Pynson


 * url J. J. Scarisbrick, "Henry VIII"

p. 111: 1st edition "was printed in July"

p. 113: "some twenty editions and translations in the sixteenth century, in Antwerp, Rome, Frankfort, Cologne, Paris and Wurzburg (among other places)"

"by early 1522, two German translations had appeared"

"by Hyeronymus Emser (at the request of Duke George of Saxony)"

"by Thomas Murner, at Strasburg"

Hieronymus Emser; George, Duke of Saxony; Thomas Murner


 * url Patron Saint and Prophet: Jan Hus in the Bohemian and German Reformations

p. 165: German translations - full names and publication data

Hieronymus Emser Schutz und Handhabung der sieben Sakrament Augsburg, Johann Schönsperger, 1522

Thomas Murner Bekennung der sieben Sakramente Strasbourg, Johann Grüninger, 1522

Johann Grüninger; de:Johann Schönsperger der Jüngere

Illuminated copies
Pope's presentation copy in Vatican

Another in Manchester (John Ryland Library)