Purgatorium detractorum saluberrimu[m] : quo quide[m] detractores ipsi aliene vite temerarii iudices, eo[rum] etiam prompti auditores toleratoresq[ue] luce clarius instruu[n]tur, me pestifera lingua neue patulis aurib[us] peccent, & quomodo bis procellis satisfaciendu[m] fit, ac inter easdem recte viuendum, sacris eloquiis q[uibus] a[per]tissime demonstratur.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Officina Liberorum Quentell, printer.

German Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Libel and slander--Early works to 1800.

Libel and slander.

Physical Description:

54 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm (4to)

Fingerprint:

r.de siri isi* dube (C) 1509 (R)

Place of Publication:

[Cologne] : [Officina Liberorum Quentell], [1509]

Notes:

Imprint from colophon on leaf e3v, which reads: Impressum est hoc directoriu[m] detracto[rum] [pri]mitus Colonie Anno d[omi]ni M.ccccc.ix. in domo Quentell. x. ka[lendas]. Noue[m]bris.

Signatures: a-d⁶ e⁴(-e4).

Without pagination.

Woodcut initials.

Title page gives a tetrastichon on slander by Ortwinus Gratius (a professor of the Univ. of Cologne), and a quotation from Cicero.

Errata at foot of leaf e3v.

Local Notes:

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1967.

Penn Libraries copy has ms. marginal note on leaf a5r.

Penn Libraries copy bound in half leather over speckled boards (boards and backstrip damaged); 5 raised bands on spine.

Penn Libraries copy: leaves in first half of volume dampstained at head margin.

Cited in:

VD 16 P5408

OCLC:

14156217