Kessler Reformation Collection at Pitts Theology Library

01/13/2015

Photos from the worship, musical performances, exhibits, and lectures of the Reformation Day at Emory program.

10/29/2014

The opening exhibit in the new Pitts Theology Library gallery is "Martin Luther's Reform of University & Church," curated by Dr. Armin Siedlecki, Head of Cataloging at the Pitts Theology Library. Video presentations regarding ten displays in the exhibit may be accessed at:
http://pitts.emory.edu/exhibits/luther2014/video.cfm

We invite you to use your smart phone or tablet to snap the QR codes in the cases or on the printed guides to access and download the exhibit catalog or to explore topics in greater detail via the in-depth resources provided. An interactive console is located at the rear of the gallery. These resour…

12/07/2013

Visitors from Intown Community School for their annual Reformation presentation--great students and very serious about their research projects

11/16/2013

Select photos from the lectures and chapel program of Candler's Reformation Day at Emory, October 24, 2013.

01/18/2013

A 1520 printing of Luther's 'The Freedom of a Christian Man" is now part of the Kessler Reformation Collection.

Martin Luther, Von der freyheyt eynes Christen menschen [Wittenberg: Melchior Lotter, 1520]
Quarto, [32] pp. Benzing 735; VD 16 L 7196.
Second printing in the year of the first; bound in modern marbled boards; contents in excellent condition. The title-page border is particularly ornate and beautifully done: http://www.pitts.emory.edu/woodcuts/1520LuthVVVV/00045105.pdf .

The bookseller described it as follows:
“Beginning in mid-1518, Luther and Melanchthon, dissatisfied with the quality and production capacity of the Rhau Grunenberg press, began contracting with the new Wittenberg press of Melchior Lotter. Lotter equipped his shop with the best types then available, which he had purchased from the Froben press in Basel. This second printing is not a reprint of the Rhau Grunenberg printing, which pre-dates it, but is considered more akin to a second issue of the first edition. "The Freedom of a Christian Man" is the third and final of Martin Luther's tracts of 1520 in which the Reformer sets forth the principles of his Reformation theology.

10/26/2012

Photos from the 2012 Reformation Day at Emory

10/23/2012

First edition of a sermon by Martin Luther on the judgment and righteousness of God. In the second part of the sermon Luther denies the judicial authority of the pope and councils.
One of many original 16th century books and pamphlets on display at Pitts Theology Library and Cannon Chapel on October 25 at the Reformation Day at Emory program.

10/09/2012

http://candler.emory.edu/news/releases/2012/10/reformation-day-25th-anniversary.cfm

On October 25th, Reformation Day at Emory will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Richard C. Kessler Reformation Collection, commemorating Richard and Martha Kessler’s donation of their private collection of Reformation imprints and manuscripts to the university in 1987.

09/27/2012

The latest addition to the Kessler Collection is Adam Petri's edition of Luther's translation of the Pentateuch and Joshua-Esther (Basel, 1523-24). Luther issued his translation of the Old Testament in sections, as they were completed, and published the whole in 1534.

08/01/2012

The most recent acquisition for the Kessler Collection is a beautiful Catholic volume, in 16th century binding, that defends the administration of the mass: WALDBURG, Otto von; HEYNLIN, Johannes. Tractatus de administratione sacramenti eucharistiae et de celebratione Missae, ... Dillingen: (Sebaldus Mayer), 1558. 8vo, 232 (i.e. 231) leaves. First edition. Fine contemporary Jesuit binding of blind stamped pigskin (by "CH") with two brass clasps intact.

07/27/2012

The Summer 2012 issue of Reformation Notes is available electronically at: ishttp://pitts.emory.edu/collections/rnweb/FRN45.pdf

06/11/2012

Program of the 2012 Reformation Day at Emory.

http://www.pitts.emory.edu/visit/news-events/reformation-day.cfm

The twenty-fifth Reformation Day at Emory will be held on Thursday, October 25, and takes as its theme, The Kessler Collection after Twenty-Five Years. This year’s program celebrates the first twenty-five years of the Kessler Collection by noting its value for scholars, students and the church.