The Gruber Rare Books Collection and Other Rare Books
The Book of Concord 1580
The Book of Concord contains the confessional writings of the Lutheran Church: The Apostles, Nicene, and Athanasian Creeds; The Augsburg Confession of 1530; The Apology of the Augsburg Confession; Luther's Smalcald Articles and Large Catechism; the Treatise on the Authority and Primacy of the Pope; and the Formula of Concord.
Gruber 19 Concordia. Pia Et Unanimi Consensu Repetita Confessio Fidei & doctrinae Electorum, Principum, et Ordinum Imperii.Lipsiae Anno MDLXXX (1580).
Gruber 20 Concordia. Christliche Widerholete einmütige Bekentnüs nachbenanter Churfürsten, Fürsten und Stende Augspurgischer Confession. Dresden, MDLXXX (1580). This is the first German edition of the Book of Concord.
Concordia Christliche Wiederholete Einmüthige Bekantnis. This copy of the Book of Concord from 1581 was given to LSTC in 1988. Its binding is in poor condition.
Confessio Fidei. This is a Swedish Translation of the Book of Concord published in 1663.
Other copies of the Book of Concord in the LSTC Rare Book Collection include
- Concordia Pie et Unanimi Consensu Repetita Confessio Fidei et Doctrinae. Leipzig 1669 S110 C749 1669.
- Concordia Christliche Wiederholete Einmüthige Bekantnis. Leipzig: Johann Ludwig Bleditsch, 1703. BX8068.A24 1703.
- Concordia Pie Et Unanimi consensu Repetita Confessio Fidei et Doctrinae. Leipzig 1705. BX8068.A25 1705.
- Concordia Pie Et Unanimi consensu Repetita Confessio Fidei et Doctrinae. BX8068.A5L3 1712. Konkordienbuch. 1712.
- The Christian Book of Concord. To which is prefixed An Historical Introduction. 2nd revised edition, Translated from the German. Newmarket: Solomon D. Henkel, 1854. Donated by Edgar Krentz. Previously owned by Professor Weidmann.
- The Book of Concord; or, The Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. By Henry E. Jacobs. Two Volumes. Philadelphia: G. W. Frederick, 1883. Donated by Edgar Krentz.
- Concordia Triglotta. Published as a memorial of the Quadricentenary Jubilee of the Reformation anno Domini 1917. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1921. Donated by Edgar Krentz.
The Gruber Collection was assembled by L. Franklin Gruber, President of Chicago Lutheran Theological Seminary, Maywood, Illinois.
Annotation prepared by Ralph W Klein