Opus epistolarum Des. Erasmi Roterdami : per autorem diligenter recognitum, et adiectis, innumeris nouis, ferè ad trientem auctum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536.

Contributor:

Episcopius, Nicolaus, 1501-1564, printer.

Froben, Hieronymus, 1501-1563, printer.

Herwagen, Johann, 1497-1559?, printer.

Officina Frobeniana, printer.

Dutch Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Correspondence

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Latin

Subjects (All):

Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536--Correspondence.

Erasmus, Desiderius.

Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536.

Latin letters--Early works to 1800.

Latin letters.

Genre:

Correspondence.

Personal correspondence.

Penn Provenance:

Gundolf, Friedrich, 1880-1931 (autograph, 1919) (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Schulta, Caspar (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Ludovicus, Zacharias (autograph) (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Schollen, Joannes (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 1010 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 33 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Opvs epistolarvm Des. Erasmi Roterdami

Fingerprint:

808. oca- uæim iaue (3) 1529 (R)

Place of Publication:

Basileae : Ex Officina Frobeniana, Anno MDXXIX [1529]

Language Note:

Text in Latin with quotations and examples in Greek.

Notes:

Colophon on leaf 3P7v reads: Anno M. D. XXIX. Basileae apud Hieronymum Frobenium et Ioannem Heruagium et Nicolaum Episcopium.

Another issue of the same year lacks Episcopius's name in the colophon. Cf. Adams E856.

Signatures: pi⁴ A-3O⁶ 3P⁸.

Woodcut title vignette (printer's device), initials and device.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1951.

Culture Class Collection copy has bookplate and autograph, dated 1919, of Friedrich Gundolf (1880-1931), Professor of German Literature at Heidelberg University, on front pastedown and on front free endpaper, respectively.

Culture Class Collection copy has 2 early, partially effaced ms. ownership inscriptions on title leaf, one dated 1575 ("Liber Zachariae Ludouicj emptus[?] a venerabilj D. Ioanne Schollen quondam pastore in Elstorf [...] Anno salutis n[ost]rae 1575 Dominica oculj") and the other 1615 ("Dono reuerendj et nobilissimj vjrj Gasparis Schult[ae?] Equit. Bremensis [et] Canonjcj Verdensis... possidet Godfridus ...M D CXV m. Majo"

Culture Class Collection copy has partial ms. autograph(?) ("Casper Schu") on title leaf; partially effaced ms. inscription of Caspar Schulta ("D[omi]no b. [...] amico suo col[?]ido in sui memoriam dabat Caspar Schulta[?] ... 1615") on verso of title leaf; ms. numerals in blue pencil on back free endpaper.

Culture Class Collection copy has bookseller's ms. note in pencil on front pastedown; early ms. notes on title leaf; some ms. underlines, marginal marks, and annotations in several hands in brown or black ink, pencil or red pencil in text.

Culture Class Collection copy: spine damaged at head.

Culture Class Collection copy has color facsimile reproduction of 4 pages from an early printed version (with ms. marginalia) of Erasmus's Moriae encomium taped to back pastedown.

Cited in:

Adams, E855

VD 16 E2927

OCLC:

3348006