Bap. Platinae Historia, von der Bäpst und Keiser Leben : von Petro vnnd Tiberio an biss auff Carolum V. und Paulum III des Jars M.D. XLVI continuirt vnd züsammen tragen / mit einer nützlichen Vorred an den durchleuchtigen hochgebornen Fürsten vnd Herrn Herrn Otthainrichen Pfaltzgrauen bei Rhein Hertzogen in Nidern vnd Obern Baiern.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Platina, 1421-1481.

Contributor:

Hedio, Kaspar, 1494-1552.

Rihel, Wendelin, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Italian Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Vitae pontificum. German

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church.

Papacy--History--Early works to 1800.

Papacy.

Catholic Church--History--Early works to 1800.

History.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Knobelsdorff, Friedrich August de (autograph)

Merian, Matthaeus, 1593-1650 (inscription)

Merian, Matthaeus, 1621-1687 (inscription)

Otto Heinrich, Elector of the Palatinate, 1502-1559 (coat of arms)

Physical Description:

14 unnumbered leaves, cclxxxi leaves, 7 unnumbered leaves ; 29 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Historia, von der Bäpst und Keiser Leben

Von der Bäpst und Keiser Leben

Von der Päpst und Keiser Leben

Fingerprint:

bers j.im ndin daer (3) 1546 (R)

Place of Publication:

Strassburg : [Wendel Rihel], MDXLVI [1546]

Notes:

First German Translation of Platina's Vitae Pontificum, originally published in Latin in 1479.

Translated and edited by Kaspar Heid.

This edition can be regraded as "the culmination of censorship in reverse" and a "valuable example of how Platina was read and used by a moderate Reformer in the mid-sixteenth century". Cf. Stefan Bauer. Censorship and Fortuna of Platina's Lives of the Popes in the Sixteenth Century.

Title enclosed within elaborate woodcut border made up of four panels: Emperor and Pope standing to the left and right of the title: upper panel with Christ, surrounded by the electors on one side, and depiction of baptism and Last Supper on the other; bottom panel with large coat-of-arms of the Pfalzgraf bei Rhein (Otto Heinrich, Elector of the Palatinate).

Printer's name from colophon which reads: "Gedruckt zü Strassburg bey Wendel Rihel/Als men zaalt nach Christi gepurt, M.D. XLVI."

Signatures: 2A⁶ 2B-2C⁴ A-Z⁶ a-z⁶, ²2A⁶ (2A6 blank) 2B⁸ (2B8 blank).

Printed marginal notations.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has the autograph of Frid[ericus] Aug[ustus] de Knobelsdorff on title page.

Culture Class Collection copy has partially legible ms. ownership inscription: "A[n]o. 1679 [...] Matthaus Merian[?]" on title page. The inscription might refer to either Merian, Matthäus, the Elder (1593-1650), a Swiss engraver and draftsman, who worked in Germany and produced numerous engravings of battles and hunts or to his son, Matthäus Merian, the Younger (1621-1687), portrait and historical painter, who worked throughout Europe.

Culture Class Collection copy has stamp with initials "C v K", possibly belonging to Friederich August de Knobelsdorff on verso of title page.

Cited in:

Graesse, J.G.T. Trésor de livres rares et précieux V, 313

BM STC German, 1455-1600, p. 765

Ebert, F.A. General bibliographical dictionary, 17016

Fueter 56-58

Pastor (n.21) IV, 446-449

Jöcker II, 1431

OCLC:

51603778

Publisher Number:

VD16 P 3271