Sola scriptura

I came across this quote in The Early Centuries and the Truth by Stuart Allen recently, once again demonstrating the belief that our faith should be based on the Scriptures. I include it, because it predates Luther, thus giving more evidence that Luther was only one in a long line of believers who based their faith primarilly on the written word of God, not traditions of the church.

. . . Marsilius of Padua (1270-1342), a physician by profession. He maintained that the supreme standard was the Bible and protested against the power of the papacy and the priests. William of Occam (1280-1347) took much the same line.
(The Early Centuries and the Truth by Stuart Allen, p29 The Berean Publishing Trust 1969; ISBN 0 85156 120 9)