Ein vermeint vngegründ, vnerfindlich schreiben, so der Rath zu Braunschweig, wider den Ehrbarn vnd Vesten Balthasern von Stechaw, grosse Vogt zu Wulffenbüttel, an die heimuerordenten Hoffrethe daselbst ausgehen lassen : vnd sein des Vogts gegründter, erfindlicher vnd warhafftiger, den jtzt bemelten Hoffrethen gethaner gegenbericht, vier Bawrn aus Ampleuen, die mit vrteil vnd recht Veruestet worden sein, vnd anders belangend.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stechau, Balthasar von.

Contributor:

Braunschweig (Germany). Rat.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

German Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Braunschweig (Germany : State)--History--16th century.

Braunschweig (Germany : State).

Genre:

Manuscript waste (Binding)

Penn Provenance:

Herzog August Bibliothek (stamp)

Physical Description:

24 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Vermeint ungegründ, unerfindlich schreiben, so der Rath zu Braunschweig, wider den Ehrbarn vnd Vesten Balthasern von Stechaw, grosse Vogt zu Wulffenbüttel, an die heimverordenten Hoffrethe daselbst ausgehen lassen

Fingerprint:

gtrt g-ch nden odjn (C) 1540 (A)

Place of Publication:

Wulffenbüttel : Gedruckt ... durch Henningk Rüdem, 1540.

Notes:

First text signed at end: Der Rath der Stadt zu Braunschweig. Second text signed at end: Baltzar von Stechaw, Gros Vogt zu Wulffenbüttel.

Printer's name from colophon on leaf C4r, which reads: Gedruckt zu Wulffenbüttel durch Henningk Rüdem.

Signatures: A-C⁴.

Without pagination.

Title within woodcut border; woodcut initials.

Local Notes:

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1959.

Penn Libraries copy is no. 5 in a volume of 9 mid-sixteenth century German pamphlets concerned with the conflict between Braunschweig and Heinrich der Jüngere, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.

Penn Libraries copy bound in one-quarter blind-tooled pig over portions of 2 early vellum ms. leaves (text in brown ink; chapter numbers and paragraph marks in red ink; 4-line initial in red and brown ink; 2 2-line initials in red ink), containing text from St. Jerome's De viris illustribus (upper board: end of c. 22 and beginning of c. 23; lower board: end of c. 20, c. 21, and beginning of c. 22); 4 raised bands on spine; portions of other early vellum ms. leaves used as binder's waste (spine lining); all edges red.

Penn Libraries copy has round stamp (image of a leaping horse surrounded by the words: Bibliothek zu Wolfenbüttel) of Herzog August Bibliothek and duplicate stamp on verso of title leaf of first work in volume.

Penn Libraries copy has 2 ms. inscriptions in ink (1 partially struck through) and 1 in pencil on front pastedown; modern ms. bibliographical notes in pencil on front free endpaper.

Penn Libraries copy: leaves A1-A4 dampstained at fore-edge margin.

Cited in:

VD 16 B7249

OCLC:

712859415