Apologia Iacobi Locher Philomusi contra poetarum acerrimum hostem Georgium Zingel theologum Ingostadiensem Xynochylensem.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Locher, Jacob, 1471-1528.

Contributor:

Grüninger, Johann, -1532?, printer.

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Locher, Jacob, 1471-1528.

Locher, Jacob.

Zingel, Georg, 1428-1508.

Zingel, Georg.

Physical Description:

16 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 20 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Apologia Jacobi Locher Philomusi contra poetarum acerrimum hostem Georgium Zingel theologum Ingostadiensem Xynochylensem

Fingerprint:

i-am ua*a tier osle (C) 1503 (Q)

Place of Publication:

[Strasbourg] : [Johann Grüninger], [1503]

Notes:

Imprint and date of printing supplied from VD 16. BM STC German suggests "1505?" for date.

Signatures: A-B⁴.

Without pagination.

Woodcut illustration on leaf A1 (title leaf) of a snake-haired figure (Medusa?) riding a horse shod with pattens. The figure carries a whip of snakes in its right hand and holds the horse's tail (which ends in a dragon's head) in its left; from behind its head project a boar's head and a dog's head.

Woodcut initial.

Local Notes:

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1958.

Penn Libraries copy: woodcut initial on leaf a2r and signature mark on leaf B1r not fully inked.

Cited in:

VD 16 L 2204

BM STC German, 1455-1600, p. 522

OCLC:

760413922