De vita et miraculis Ioannis Gerson : defensio Wymphelingij [pro] diuo Ioanne Gerson, & clero seculari qui in libro (cui titulus suppleme[n]to Celifodine) grauiter taxati sunt et reprehensi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wimpheling, Jakob, 1450-1528.

Contributor:

Prüss, Johann, 1446 or 1447-1510, printer.

Henry Charles Lea Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

German Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

French

Latin

Subjects (All):

Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429.

Gerson, Jean.

Paltz, Johann von, -1511. Supplementum Coelifodinae.

Paltz, Johann von.

Penn Provenance:

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

Kraus, Franz Xaver, 1840-1901 (stamp) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

16 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm (4to)

Other Title:

De vita et miraculis Joannis Gerson

Fingerprint:

a-dē e̜-t. ede- p̄mur (C) 1506 (Q)

Place of Publication:

[Strassburg] : [Johann Prüss der Ältere], [1506]

Notes:

Imprint from VD 16.

Signatures: A-B⁴.

Without pagination.

Woodcut initial.

Includes a panegyric in French to Gerson.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries Lea copy has Henry Charles Lea's bookplate on pastedown of laid-in upper board and his autograph (1876) on title leaf; ms. note ("c. 1505") in pencil on title leaf.

Penn Libraries Lea copy bound in brown paper wrappers; modern upper board (full brown leather stamped in gold with author's name, title and "1505" and ruled in blind) laid in; early lower board (quarter-bound in blind-stamped leather over wood, with remains of 1 leather-and-metal clasp; early vellum ms. leaf written in 2 columns with text in black, triangular chapter heading and incipit in red, paragraph marks in red or blue, and 2 red-and-blue initials, 1 with red-and-blue pen-work extensions, used as pastedown) laid in; small printed label ("John Penington & Son ... Philadelphia") affixed to pastedown of lower board.

Culture Class Collection copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1954.

Penn Libraries Culture Class Collection copy has stamp ("EX MVSAEO FRANC.XAV.KRAVS") of Franz Xaver Kraus on verso of title leaf in faded blue ink.

Penn Libraries Culture Class Collection copy has remains of finding tab affixed to fore-edge of title leaf.

Cited in:

VD 16 W 3408, W 3409

OCLC:

225314871