Susanna comoedia tragica / per Xystum Betuleium Augustanum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Birck, Sixt, 1500-1554.

Contributor:

Gymnich, Johann, -1596, printer.

Dutch Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Susanna

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Susanna (Biblical figure)--Drama.

Susanna.

Susanna (Biblical figure).

Genre:

Drama.

Manuscript waste (Binding)

Physical Description:

96 unnumbered pages : music ; 15 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Svsanna comoedia tragica

Fingerprint:

uæR: cet. isda VeNu (C) 1541 (R)

Place of Publication:

Coloniae : Ioannes Gymnicus excudebat, Anno MDXXXXI [1541]

Notes:

Signatures: A-F⁸.

Leaf F8 is blank.

Without pagination.

Woodcut title vignette and initials.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy is no. 6 in a volume of 8 works printed in Germany between 1541 and 1562.

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1955.

Penn Libraries copy bound in full vellum, i.e. a portion of an early ms. leaf (possibly from a missal, with text from Luke 10:23-27 visible on upper board) ruled in brown ink and written in brown and red ink with red capital strokes and evidence of blue pen-work extensions.

Penn Libraries copy: spine damaged and repaired with 2 pieces of early vellum ms. waste ruled in red and written in brown ink (text from directions for celebrating Mass).

Penn Libraries copy has ms. shelf-mark in red pencil on verso of front free endpaper; remains of copper and leather finding tab affixed to fore-edge of title leaf.

Cited in:

VD 16 B 5560

OCLC:

228767897