Der güt frum Lutherisch Pfaffen narr haysz ich : der mich kaufft der lesse mich.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vogtherr, Heinrich, 1490-1556.

Oeglin, Erhard, -approximately 1520, printer.

German Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Benefices, Ecclesiastical--Early works to 1800.

Benefices, Ecclesiastical.

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm (4to)

Fingerprint:

erem erft nds- erch (C) 1521 (R)

Place of Publication:

[Augsburg] : [Erhard Oeglin], [1521]

Notes:

On ecclesiastical benefices and their increased wealth and dependence on the Papal See.

Imprint from VD 16.

Signatures: A⁴.

Without pagination.

Large woodcut on title leaf depicting a scholar wearing spectacles and holding a fly-swatter, attributed to Heinrich Vogtherr. Cf. Folger. After a satirical illustration of a bibliophile by Albrecht Dürer from an incunable edition of Sebastian Brant's Narrenschiff (Basel: Johann Bergmann, de Olpe, 11 Feb. 1494; ISTC ib01080000). In Dürer's illustration, the bibliophile is holding a feather-duster.

Local Notes:

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1957.

Penn Libraries copy has ms. numeral ("57") at head of title leaf; ms. foliation ("133"-"136") in head outer corner of rectos of leaves A1-A4.

Cited in:

VD 16 G4148

BM STC German, 1455-1600 p. 582

Folger. Reformation, 641

Kuczyński, A. Thesaurus libellorum, 2145

Weller, E.O. Repertorium typographicum, 1924

OCLC:

64051888