Confutatio libelli Philippi Melanchtonis cuius titulus est De officio principum, quod mandatum dei praecipiat eis tollere abusus ecclesiasticos / authore D. Nicolao Appel.

Format:

• Book
• Manuscript

Author/Creator:

• Apel, Nikolaus, 1482-1545.

Contributor:

• Salzperg, Joannes, former owner.
• Rosinus, Stephan, 1470-1548, former owner.

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

• Melanchthon, Philip, 1497-1560. De officio principum.
• Catholic Church--Apologetic works--Early works to 1800.
• Catholic Church.
• Lutheran Church--Controversial literature--Catholic authors--Early works to 1800.
• Counter-Reformation--Germany.
• Counter-Reformation.
• Lutheran Church--Controversial literature--Catholic authors.
• Lutheran Church.
• Germany.

Genre:

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• polemics
• Hybrid books.
• Manuscripts, Latin -- 16th century.
• Manuscripts, Renaissance.
• Apologetic writings.

Penn Provenance:

• Early ownership inscriptions for volume by Joannes Salzperg (inside upper cover); Stephanus Rosinus of Augsburg, canon of Passau (first printed title page); and the Jesuits of Altötting (Societatis Jesu Oetingae, first printed title page).
• Purchased, 1959; transferred from Culture Class collection, 2011.

Physical Description:

31 leaves : paper ; 198 x 146 (166 x 96) mm bound to 212 x 160 mm

Production:

Mostburg, 1540.

Language Note:

Latin.

Summary:

A detailed refutation of De officio principum by Philipp Melanchthon, bound into the middle of a collection of printed works by Johannes Cochlaeus, whose own challenge to the works of Melancthon follows the work by Apel.

Notes:

• Ms. codex.
• Title from caption title (f. 2r).
• Collation: Paper, 31; 1¹⁰ 2⁸ 3⁶ 4⁸(-1); [1-31], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto, manuscript portion of volume only.
• Layout: Written in 27 long lines.
• Script: Written in a cursive script, possibly in the hand of the author (Zacour-Hirsch).
• Binding: Contemporary blindpressed pigskin (Zacour-Hirsch) over wooden boards with two clasps.
• Origin: Written in Mostburg (f. 3r) in 1540 (f. 2r, 3r).
• Each of the printed works is cataloged individually; to retrieve those records as a set, search for the call number as a phrase.

Cited in:

Manuscript work described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800, Supplement B. Library Chronicle 45 (1981), p. 7 (Ms. Latin 265).

Cited as:

Confutatio libelli Philippi Melanchtonis (Ms. Codex 1593). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

733766459

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