Translation, oder Deütschungen des hochgeachten Nicolai von Weil : den zeiten Statschreiber der Statt Esslingen, etlicher Bücher Enee Siluij, Pogij Florentini, Doctoris Felicis Hemerlin, mit sampt anderen Schrifften deren achtzehen nach einander vnderschydenlichen mit jren Fyguren vnd Titeln, in[n] disem Büch begriffen sind ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wyle, Niklas von, 1410?-1479?

Contributor:

Stayner, Heinrich, -1548, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

German Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

German

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Latin

Subjects (All):

Latin literature, Medieval and modern--Translations into German.

Latin literature, Medieval and modern.

Penn Provenance:

Veesenmeyer, Georg, 1760-1833 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

6 unnumbered leaves, xcix leaves : illustrations ; 29 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Translation, oder Deütschungen etlicher Bücher Enee Siluij ...

Fingerprint:

lbie r.er ndn. dewa (3) 1536 (R)

Place of Publication:

Augspurg : Haynrich Stayner, 1536.

Notes:

Imprint from colophon, which reads: Gedruckt vnd volendet inn der kayserlichen Statt Augspurg, durch Haynrich Stayner Büchtrucker, am xviij. Tag Februariij [sic] des M.D.XXXvj. Jars.

This is the third edition of Niclas von Wyle's "Translationen". First edition: ca. 1478.

The selections translated from Petrarch are chapters 25 and 18 of De remediis utriusque fortunae, book II, with the translator's dedication to "Fraw Mechtilten, geborne Pfaltzgräffin bey dem Rein, Ertzhertzogin zü Ossterreych".

Signatures: a⁶ A-Q⁶ R⁴ (R4 blank).

Woodcuts: ill.; initials; tail-pieces.

"XV. Tröstung in[n] Widwertigkait auss Francisco Petrarca": leaves lxxva-lxxxviiib.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy has modern ms. bibliographical notes in German in pencil on front pastedown.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries in 1959,

Penn Libraries copy has dated early 19th-century autograph ("M. Georg Veesenmeyer, Prof. 1813. Jul.") of Georg Veesenmeyer followed by ms. notes in his hand in brown ink on front free endpaper.

Cited in:

VD 16 W 4693

Fowler, M. Petrarch, p. 23, Pet +BG 12

Adams W277

BM STC German, 1455-1600 930

Contains:

Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374. De remediis utriusque fortunae. German

OCLC:

41988880