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Glaubliche Offenbarung wie viell fürtreffener Reich, vnd Keyserthumb vff Ertrich gewesen, wo d[as] Römisch Reich herko[m]me, auss was vrsach es zů den Edeln Teütschen verandert worden sey : Auch von der Erwelung, Salbůng, Weyhung, Crönůng &c. Eins Römische[n] Königs vnd Keysers, vnd von an[der]n Keyserlichen herlicheiten, vnd ordenungen, Findestu in diesem büchlein, zů Eren dem grossmechtigsten Carolo dem funfften Rö. Keyser angezeigt.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Koebel, Jacob, 1462-1533.
Contributor:
Jordan, Peter, active 1535, printer.
Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
German Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
German
Subjects (All):
Holy Roman Empire--History--Early works to 1800.
Holy Roman Empire.
Physical Description:
48 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm (4to)
Other Title:
Glaubliche Offenbarung wie viell fürtreffener Reich, und Keyserthumb uff Ertrich gewesen, wo d[as] Römisch Reich herko[m]me, auss was ursach es zů den Edeln Teütschen verandert worden sey
Fingerprint:
2.im ngge esch obAu (C) 1532 (R)
Place of Publication:
Getruckt zů Meyntz : Bey Peter Iordan ... für ... Iacob Köbeln ..., MDXXXII [1532]
Notes:
A brief vernacular history of the Holy Roman Empire, followed by an illustrated description of its structure according to the Quaternionsystem, popularized in the mid-15th century, which ordered its components into 10 groups of four: Herzöge, Markgrafen, Landgrafen, Burggrafen, Grafen, Freiherren, Ritter), Städte, Dörfer, and Bauern. Cf. B. Schneidmüller, Die Kaiser des Mittelalters, 2nd ed. (Munich: Beck, 2007), p. 112.
Imprint from colophon on leaf F4r, which reads: Getruckt zů Meyntz bey Peter Iordan, zůr Lederhossen, für den ersamen Herrn Iacob Köbeln Stadtschreyber zů Oppenheym, Im Augstmon. M. D. XXXII.
Signatures: A-F⁴.
Without pagination.
Title within woodcut border; woodcut illustrations and tail-pieces.
Printed marginalia.
Local Notes:
Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1955.
Penn Libraries copy disbound; leaves A2-A3 detatched and laid in.
Cited in:
VD 16 K 1621
OCLC:
1123089234

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