Altera apologia pro rege christianissimo contra caesarianos, in qua de causis belli inter regem et caesarem recens orti brevissime et verissime agitur.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Danès, Pierre, 1497-1577.

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Henry II, King of France, 1519-1559.

Turks--Romania--Transylvania.

Turks.

Turkey--History--Süleyman I, 1520-1566.

Turkey.

History.

Holy Roman Empire--History--Charles V, 1519-1556.

France--History--Henry II, 1547-1559.

France.

Romania--Transylvania.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

tracts (literary genre)

Manuscripts, Latin.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by H. P. Kraus (New York), 1968.

Physical Description:

27 leaves : paper ; 226 x 162 (165 x 103) mm bound to 227 x 167 mm

Place of Publication:

[France], [between 1550 and 1599]

Language Note:

Latin.

Summary:

Copy of a pamphlet which was printed in Paris in 1552 by Charles Estienne justifying the decision of Henry II of France to start a war with Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from caption heading (f. 1r).

Collation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 27 + i (modern paper); 1⁶ 2² 3⁶ 4² 5⁶ 6² 7³(+1); [1-27]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Layout: Written in 28 long lines.

Script: Written in a humanistic script.

Binding: Modern paper boards.

Origin: Written in France in the second half of the 16th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800, Supplement A (1). The Library Chronicle 35 (1969), p. 18 (Ms. Latin 246).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1091.

OCLC:

183615107

Access Restriction:

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