Clarissimi viri iuriu[mque] doctoris Felicis Hemmerlin cantoris quonda[m] Thuricen[sis]. varie oblectationis opuscula et tractat[us].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hemmerlin, Felix, approximately 1388-approximately 1458.

Contributor:

Brant, Sebastian, 1458-1521.

Husner, Georg, -1505, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Henry Charles Lea Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Opuscula et tractatus

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church.

Monks and monasticism--Early works to 1800.

Monks and monasticism.

Canon law--Early works to 1800.

Canon law.

Catholic Church--Doctrines--Early works to 1800.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Penn Provenance:

Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909 (autograph) (bookplate) (Lea copy)

Volckmann, Ernst (bookplate) (RBC copy)

Universitätsbibliothek Rostock (stamp) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

184 unnumbered leaves (leaves [4] and 184 unnumbered pages) ; 27 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Clarissimi viri juriumque doctoris Felicis Hemmerlin cantoris quondam Thuricensis variae oblectationis opuscula et tractatus

Varie oblectationis opuscula et tractatus

Variae oblectationis opuscula et tractatus

Fingerprint:

s.ro dees t.oe xive (C) 1497 (Q)

Place of Publication:

[Strasbourg] : [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner)], [after 13 Aug. 1497]

Notes:

Edited and with two verses (on title leaf and leaf pi2) by Sebastian Brant; the second verse is dated at end: Ex Basilea Idibus August[is] M.cccc.xcvij.

Imprint from ISTC. "Assigned to Husner by Voulliéme (ZfB, 1915, p.311). BMC and Polain, followed by Goff, assigned to an unidentified press, designated by Polain as the Printer of Hemmerlin, BMC and CIBN (A-406) identifying tentatively with Schaffener. Proctor assigned to Grüninger"--ISTC.

Chancery folio. Leaf a2r: 47 lines, plus headline; area of text: 190 (203) x 123 mm. Initial spaces, most with guide letters. Headlines on all printed leaves except pi1r-p2v and e4v-e6v. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords. Woodcut illustration (120 x 117 mm.) on title leaf: portrait of Hemmerlin walking in a landscape, carrying a book in his right hand and a hammer in his left, with seven bees flying around his head.

Signatures: pi⁴ a-2g⁶.

Leaves pi4 and 2g6 are blanks; leaf t2 signed s2.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries Lea copy: leaf size: 262 x 193 mm.

Penn Libraries Lea copy partially rubricated: most tracts with paragraph marks and underlines in red.

Penn Libraries Lea copy: many of the tracts are heavily annotated and underlined in red by an early hand, but portions of these annotations have been lost following cropping; numbering of leaves in red still mostly visible; a few other ms. annotations in pencil; edges stained red.

Penn Libraries Lea copy: woodcut of Hemmerlin on t.p. has been partially colored in brown (originally red?) ink with ms. caption: "Doctor Felix".

Penn Libraries Lea copy imperfect: leaves pi4 and 2g6 (blanks) wanting.

Penn Libraries Lea copy has one pinpoint wormhole extending from title leaf through leaf b6, with minor loss of text.

Penn Libraries RBC copy: leaf size: 236 x 180 mm.

Penn Libraries RBC copy without rubrication.

Penn Libraries RBC copy: illegible early ms. inscription (partially excised) in brown ink at head of title leaf; headline supplied in early ms. in brown ink on leaves e4v-e6v; some early ms. underlines, notes, marginal marks and manicules in brown ink in text; a few modern ms. bibliographical notes in pencil on front pastedown.

RBC copy purchased for the Penn Libraries from Ernst Volckmann in 1922.

Penn Libraries RBC copy has illustrated bookplate of Ernst Volckmann, a late nineteenth-century bookseller in Rostock, Germany, on front pastedown; round stamp ("Ex Bibliotheca Academiae Rostochiensis") in black ink and two rectangular duplicate stamps ("Ex Duplis Bibl. Acad. Rost. divenditum") in blue ink of the Universitätsbibliothek Rostock on verso of title leaf.

Penn Libraries RBC copy bound in quarter cloth over marbled paper board; spine tooled in gold with shelf-mark ("Jb. 1070") stamped in gold at foot; remains of gold-tooled leather spine label ("FEL. HEMMERLIN Opuscula. (Basil. 1497.) s. l. et a[...]"); remains of parchment(?) finding-tab affixed to fore-edge of leaves q1 and h4 (evidence of such tabs on leaves c5, i6 and r4); all edges speckled red.

Penn Libraries RBC copy imperfect: leaves pi4 and 2g6 (blanks) wanting.

Penn Libraries RBC copy: leaves cropped at outer margins with occasional damage to printed headline and ms. marginalia; leaves lightly wormed at beginning and end of volume with a few pinpoint wormholes throughout textblock; small portion of fore-edge margin of leaf r1 torn off; tail outer corner of leaf y3 torn off.

Penn Libraries RBC copy: leaf h2 bound in before leaf h1.

Cited in:

Goff H-17

BM 15th cent. I, p. 172 (IB.2562)

GW 12187

BN cat. des incun. H-8

BSB-Ink. H-42

Hain *8424

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 262, S-262A

ISTC ih00017000

OCLC:

63612001