Philippicae quatuor Iohannis Cochlei : in Apologiam Philippi Melanchthonis ad Carolum V. Imperatorem Romanorum, pium, foelicem, triumphatorem, semper Augustum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cochlaeus, Johannes, 1479-1552.

Contributor:

Schmidt, Nickel, approximately 1490-1554, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

German Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Melanchthon, Philip, 1497-1560. Apologia Confessionis Augustanae.

Melanchthon, Philip.

Augsburg Confession.

Lutheran Church--Controversial literature--Catholic authors.

Lutheran Church.

Penn Provenance:

Kienpergerus, Jonas (autograph, 1573)

Physical Description:

176 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm (4to)

Fingerprint:

r-,& o.u- don- stad (C) 1534 (R)

Place of Publication:

Lipsiae : Excudebat Nicolaus Faber [that is, Nickel Schmidt], MDXXXIIII [1534]

Notes:

Place and date of printing from title leaf; printer's name from colophon on leaf X3v, which reads: Lipsiae excudebat Nicolaus Faber, mense Iunio anno M. D. XXXIIII.

Signatures: [fist]⁶ A-T⁴ V² X⁴.

Leaf X4 is blank; leaf P3 signed "P ij".

Without pagination.

Woodcut initials.

Printed marginalia.

Typographical ornament on title leaf.

Published in Leipzig.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy bound with: Cochlaeus, Johannes. Sieben Kopffe Martin Luthers. Gedrugkt zu Dreszden : Durch Wolffgang Stöckel, 1529.

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1959.

Penn Libraries copy bound in full blind-tooled pig over indented, beveled-edge wooden boards; upper board also has the letters "J J P G C" and an emblem stamped in black; 3 raised, blind-ruled bands on spine; blind-ruled spine panels; ms. author's name ("Cochlaeus") at head of spine; paper spine label with ms. shelf mark in brown ink; 2 leather and metal clasps with metal catchplates.

Penn Libraries copy has autograph ("Ionas Kienpergervs Anno domini 1573") in brown ink above ms. inscription ("Orate Deum pro eo.") in black ink in a different hand at head of front pastedown; paper label with ms. shelf mark at foot of front pastedown; ms. inscription (monogram?) at foot of title leaf.

Penn Libraries copy: leaves closely cropped at all margins; hole in lower portion of title leaf with minor loss of text on verso; leaves S4v and T1r stained; leaf X4 has copper finding tab affixed to fore-edge.

Cited in:

VD 16 C 4355

BM STC German, 1455-1600 p. 249

Adams 2280

Crawford, J.L.L. Cat. of printed books, 1072

Knaake, J.F.K. Reformationsschriften, II, 829

Panzer VII, 228, 888

Spahn, M. Cochläus, p. 357, no. 104

OCLC:

10202442