On the Life and Missions of Jacobus Andreae for the Reformation of the Lutheran Church, Part I

and it is another thing to be the genius of our century, refined by philosophy, hermeneutical studies, and sound exegesis, which, if you wish to judge with fairness and justice, you should not neglect. For the genius of the times in which Andreæ lived had a great influence on the things that were done by Andreæ in his time; his education was strenuous and severe, and his training did not always appear solid, being tinged with scholastic flourishes. The constitution of the then-reigning court had little merit; its virtues and vices—the prevailing atmosphere which the theologians of that time inhaled—carried with them the germ of corruption. The impulse of the Princes themselves sometimes proceeded from vice and sometimes from virtue. We shall provide in the first place the sources we use, both those that encompass the entire Andrean period and those that illustrate particular facts. The entire life of Andreæ is encompassed by: 1. Fama Andreana reflorescens sive Andreæ Waiblingensis Theologi doctoris vitæ, funeris, scriptorum, peregrinationum et progeniei recitatio The Reflourishing Andrean Fame, or a Recitation of the Life, Funeral, Writings, Travels, and Progeny of Andreae, Theologian and Doctor of Waiblingen, edited by Jo. Valentinus Andreæ, his grandson. Printed at Strasbourg in the year of Christ 1680 by Joannes Reppius in 12mo. Jacobus Heerbrand provided the funeral oration on the life and death of Jac. Andreæ; Lucas Osiander provided the vernacular oration. Added to these are the letters of learned men to Jac. Andreæ. A syllabus of his travels. However, the biography which Jacobus himself had begun to write, he did not complete in its entirety. Many memorabilia about this man were also collected by the blessed D. Weismannus in his memory of church history. Hutteri Concordia concors Hutter’s Concordant Concord, opposed to Hospinianus’s Concordia discors Discordant Concord, contains many things that serve to illustrate the history of Andreæ. Against Arnoldus, who freely tarnished the fame of Andreæ, Caroli collected many things to defend Andreæ's fame. M. Jo. Nicolaus Anton, Deacon of Schmiedeberg in Electoral Saxony, dealt at length with the symbolic industry of Andreæ c.

c) in Geschichte der Concordienformel der Evangelisch Lutherischen Kirche History of the Formula of Concord of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. Leipzig 1779, 8vo. I. II. The famous Schnurrer also noted more about this man in his Erläuterungen der Wirtembergischen Kirchen = Reformations- und Gelehrten-Geschichet Explanations of Württemberg Church, Reformation, and Scholarly History, p. 185. I also used the sources of the Stuttgart Library, where a copious apparatus of Andrean materials exists.

A blue oval library stamp is located in the bottom left corner. It is partially illegible and appears to be a mark from the "Bibliotheca Regia Monacensis" (Bavarian State Library).