Leighton Library, Dunblane

Scotland's oldest purpose-built independent library founded in 1687

Leighton Library has 1543 edition of "Loci Communes rerum theologicarum” by Philipp Melanchthon

Added at 12:38 on 19 April 2025

#OnThisDay 19 April 1560 German astronomer, theologian & academic Philipp Melanchthon died. He was a collaborator with Martin Luther, the first systematic theologian of the Protestant Reformation, and intellectual leader of the Lutheran Reformation. The Leighton Library has a 1543 edition of his "Loci Communes rerum theologicarum seu hypotyposes theologicae (Latin for Common Places in Theology or Fundamental Doctrinal Themes), of which Martin Luther said "Next to Holy Scripture, there is no better book."

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