# VIRGINIA FOX STERN CENTER
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Protestant & Catholic Reformations[cathy](https://sterncenter.library.jhu.edu/author/cathy/ "Posts by cathy")2024-10-01T14:28:15-04:00
# Protestant & Catholic Reformations
Two Early Printed Bibles with Manuscript Additions, 1480 and 1501[cathy](https://sterncenter.library.jhu.edu/author/cathy/ "Posts by cathy")2024-08-06T12:18:22-04:00
#### [Two Early Printed Bibles with Manuscript Additions, 1480 and 1501](https://sterncenter.library.jhu.edu/early-book-collections/venetian-bibles/)
Satirical Dialogue on the Dutch Pope Adrian VI, 1522[cathy](https://sterncenter.library.jhu.edu/author/cathy/ "Posts by cathy")2024-08-06T12:19:14-04:00
#### [Satirical Dialogue on the Dutch Pope Adrian VI, 1522](https://sterncenter.library.jhu.edu/early-book-collections/adrian-vi-satire/)
Sammelband of Elizabethan Catholic Martyrs[cathy](https://sterncenter.library.jhu.edu/author/cathy/ "Posts by cathy")2024-08-06T12:20:11-04:00
#### [Sammelband of Elizabethan Catholic Martyrs](https://sterncenter.library.jhu.edu/early-book-collections/sammelband-of-elizabethan-catholic-martyrs/)
Relic Broadside and Pillow from the Basilica of San Cyriaco[cathy](https://sterncenter.library.jhu.edu/author/cathy/ "Posts by cathy")2024-08-06T12:21:30-04:00
#### [Relic Broadside and Pillow from the Basilica of San Cyriaco](https://sterncenter.library.jhu.edu/early-book-collections/relic-broadside-and-pillow/)
Plantin-Moretus Psalters, 1683[cathy](https://sterncenter.library.jhu.edu/author/cathy/ "Posts by cathy")2024-08-06T12:12:14-04:00
#### [Plantin-Moretus Psalters, 1683](https://sterncenter.library.jhu.edu/early-book-collections/plantin-moretus-psalters/)
Hand-Colored Catholic Devotional Engravings, 1610[cathy](https://sterncenter.library.jhu.edu/author/cathy/ "Posts by cathy")2024-10-29T12:01:06-04:00
#### [Hand-Colored Catholic Devotional Engravings, 1610](https://sterncenter.library.jhu.edu/early-book-collections/colored-devotional-engravings/)
Erasmus’ Cyprian with Red Block Censorship, 1547[cathy](https://sterncenter.library.jhu.edu/author/cathy/ "Posts by cathy")2024-08-06T12:14:32-04:00
#### [Erasmus’ Cyprian with Red Block Censorship, 1547](https://sterncenter.library.jhu.edu/early-book-collections/red-block-censorship/)
Anti-Lutheran Satirical Pamphlets, 1715[cathy](https://sterncenter.library.jhu.edu/author/cathy/ "Posts by cathy")2024-08-06T12:15:37-04:00
#### [Anti-Lutheran Satirical Pamphlets, 1715](https://sterncenter.library.jhu.edu/early-book-collections/anti-lutheran-satirical-pamphlets/)
A Nuremberg Via Crucis at the Crux of the Reformation, 1521[cathy](https://sterncenter.library.jhu.edu/author/cathy/ "Posts by cathy")2024-08-06T12:16:28-04:00
#### [A Nuremberg Via Crucis at the Crux of the Reformation, 1521](https://sterncenter.library.jhu.edu/early-book-collections/way-of-the-cross/)
A Manuscript Carta Ejecutoria from Granada, 1572[cathy](https://sterncenter.library.jhu.edu/author/cathy/ "Posts by cathy")2024-08-06T12:17:21-04:00
#### [A Manuscript Carta Ejecutoria from Granada, 1572](https://sterncenter.library.jhu.edu/early-book-collections/manuscript-carta-ejecutoria/)
Two Early Printed Bibles with Manuscript Additions, 1480 and 1501[cathy](https://sterncenter.library.jhu.edu/author/cathy/ "Posts by cathy")2024-08-06T12:18:22-04:00
#### [Two Early Printed Bibles with Manuscript Additions, 1480 and 1501](https://sterncenter.library.jhu.edu/early-book-collections/venetian-bibles/)
Satirical Dialogue on the Dutch Pope Adrian VI, 1522[cathy](https://sterncenter.library.jhu.edu/author/cathy/ "Posts by cathy")2024-08-06T12:19:14-04:00
#### [Satirical Dialogue on the Dutch Pope Adrian VI, 1522](https://sterncenter.library.jhu.edu/early-book-collections/adrian-vi-satire/)
Sammelband of Elizabethan Catholic Martyrs[cathy](https://sterncenter.library.jhu.edu/author/cathy/ "Posts by cathy")2024-08-06T12:20:11-04:00
#### [Sammelband of Elizabethan Catholic Martyrs](https://sterncenter.library.jhu.edu/early-book-collections/sammelband-of-elizabethan-catholic-martyrs/)
Relic Broadside and Pillow from the Basilica of San Cyriaco[cathy](https://sterncenter.library.jhu.edu/author/cathy/ "Posts by cathy")2024-08-06T12:21:30-04:00
#### [Relic Broadside and Pillow from the Basilica of San Cyriaco](https://sterncenter.library.jhu.edu/early-book-collections/relic-broadside-and-pillow/)
Plantin-Moretus Psalters, 1683[cathy](https://sterncenter.library.jhu.edu/author/cathy/ "Posts by cathy")2024-08-06T12:12:14-04:00
#### [Plantin-Moretus Psalters, 1683](https://sterncenter.library.jhu.edu/early-book-collections/plantin-moretus-psalters/)
Hand-Colored Catholic Devotional Engravings, 1610[cathy](https://sterncenter.library.jhu.edu/author/cathy/ "Posts by cathy")2024-10-29T12:01:06-04:00
#### [Hand-Colored Catholic Devotional Engravings, 1610](https://sterncenter.library.jhu.edu/early-book-collections/colored-devotional-engravings/)
Erasmus’ Cyprian with Red Block Censorship, 1547[cathy](https://sterncenter.library.jhu.edu/author/cathy/ "Posts by cathy")2024-08-06T12:14:32-04:00
#### [Erasmus’ Cyprian with Red Block Censorship, 1547](https://sterncenter.library.jhu.edu/early-book-collections/red-block-censorship/)
Anti-Lutheran Satirical Pamphlets, 1715[cathy](https://sterncenter.library.jhu.edu/author/cathy/ "Posts by cathy")2024-08-06T12:15:37-04:00
#### [Anti-Lutheran Satirical Pamphlets, 1715](https://sterncenter.library.jhu.edu/early-book-collections/anti-lutheran-satirical-pamphlets/)
A Nuremberg Via Crucis at the Crux of the Reformation, 1521[cathy](https://sterncenter.library.jhu.edu/author/cathy/ "Posts by cathy")2024-08-06T12:16:28-04:00
#### [A Nuremberg Via Crucis at the Crux of the Reformation, 1521](https://sterncenter.library.jhu.edu/early-book-collections/way-of-the-cross/)
A Manuscript Carta Ejecutoria from Granada, 1572[cathy](https://sterncenter.library.jhu.edu/author/cathy/ "Posts by cathy")2024-08-06T12:17:21-04:00
#### [A Manuscript Carta Ejecutoria from Granada, 1572](https://sterncenter.library.jhu.edu/early-book-collections/manuscript-carta-ejecutoria/)
[Early Book Collections](./early-books/) | [Protestant & Catholic Reformations](./protestant-catholic-reformations/)
The Sheridan Libraries hold an extensive collection of early Judeo-Christian bibles, liturgical texts, and medieval and early modern biblical commentaries. From a leaf of the Gutenberg Bible and a copy of Thomas Aquinas’s *De articulis fidei et ecclesiae sacramentis*, printed ca. 1460 with Gutenberg’s type, to a massive four-volume illuminated Koberger Bible (Nuremberg, 1497), onwards to Martin Luther’s epoch-making “September” and “December” German bible translations (1522), and the famous Genoa polyglot Psalter (1516) and Plantin Polyglot bible (1569-72), JHU holds many of the great treasures of the pre-Reformation and Reformation periods. This is due, in large part, to the acquisition in 1928 of the private library of biblical texts gathered together by Julius Hoffman, the pastor of Zion Lutheran Church in Baltimore—a collection that has been substantially complimented in recent years by the acquisition of many of the earliest Protestant apologies and polemical pamphlets issued by Luther and his followers in the first three decades of the 16th century. In recent years a small but important collection of early editions of the seminal works of Martin Luther has been added to the holdings of the George Peabody Library, where the Hoffmann Collection currently resides.
While each of the major contributors to Protestant thought—Erasmus, Luther, Zwingli, Melanchthon, Calvin, et al.—are represented in the collections, JHU’s holdings in the Catholic Reformation are among the strongest in the country, most notably as a result of the Women of the Book collection, now the single largest, purpose-built gathering of rare books, manuscripts, and *objets d’art* dedicated entirely the history, culture, and literary output of early modern Roman Catholic women (1450-1800). These materials focus, in particular, on nuns, female saints and women mystics, healers, prophetesses, and female lay confraternity members from throughout Western Europe and Latin America. The literature of global post-Reformation Catholic missionary work is also richly represented in the holdings of the Sheridan Libraries at JHU, in particular, the publications of the *Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide* (“Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith”).
—Earle Havens, Daniel T. McClurkin