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Basilius Faber’s  Vnterrichtungen von den letzten Hendeln der Welt  (1564) was one of the great publishing successes of the sixteenth century. Starting from the fifth edition (1569), a semi-independent tract was published with it on the departed souls’ immortality and state. That  Tractetlein  exhibits remarkable parallels with Part 3 of  Vom Leiblichen Todt  (1560) by Strasbourg theologian Melchior Specker. On the basis of close structural, thematic, and textual analysis it is argued that Faber was indeed heavily relying on Specker’s work, hardly known today. Their connection throws light on Faber’s specific achievement in reworking his source material, can serve as a case study of early modern literary borrowing, and clears the way to further research on the origins of the Lutheran doctrine of individual eschatology in the early confessional age.

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The Legacy of a Strasbourg Preacher: Melchior Specker’s  Vom Leiblichen Todt  as an Unknown Source of Basilius Faber’s  Tractetlein von den Seelen der verstorbenen