Historia periucunda sanctissime matris Anne / per Rodolphum Agricolam poeta[m] carmine heroico edita.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Agricola, Rodolphus, 1443?-1485.

Contributor:

Thanner, Jakob, active 1498-1529, printer.

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Anne (Mother of the Virgin Mary), Saint--Early works to 1800.

Anne.

Anne (Mother of the Virgin Mary), Saint.

Genre:

Hybrid books.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Emil Offenbacher (New York), 1962.

Transferred from Culture Class collection, University of Pennsylvania, 2012.

Physical Description:

20 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm (4to)

Fingerprint:

isum esta o.o- sol- (C) 1507 (T)

Place of Publication:

[Leipzig] : Impressa [per] Jacobu[m] Thanner ... ciuem Liptzensem ..., Anno salutis dominice Millesimo qui[n]gentesimo septi[m]o [1507]

Notes:

Imprint from colophon on leaf B4r, which reads: Impressa [per] Jacobu[m] thanner calcographu[m] atq[ue] ciuem Liptzensem. ipso die Seueri Episcopi Anno salutis dominice Millesimo qui[n]gentesimo septi[m]o.

Signatures: A⁶ B⁴.

Without pagination.

Bound in following this printed work are 5 late-15th-century ms. leaves containing a table of Greek letters and information on Greek diphthongs and the Grecismus Cornutus, a treatise in Latin verse on Greek grammar and words similar to the Grecismus attributed to John of Garland, with numerous interlinear notes and perhaps metrical divisions. For a fuller description of the ms. portion of this item, see record for: Grecismus Cornutus ... etc. Leipzig or Erfurt?, ca. 1475-1507.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy has early ms. inscriptions on title leaf and verso of title leaf; numerous early ms. annotations in text.

Penn Libraries copy has reproduction of Albrecht Dürer's 1526 portrait of Melanchthon (with stamp on reverse: Faksimile-Reproduktion der Reichsdruckerei Berlin) laid in.

Penn Libraries copy: spine damaged.

Cited in:

VD 16 A 1082

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1621.

OCLC:

775859781

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