Graece et Latine, Moralia quaedam instituta / ex uarijs authoribus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Luscinius, Ottmar, 1487-1537

Contributor:

Ruff, Simprecht, active 1522-1526, printer.

Grimm, Siegmund, -1530, publisher.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

German Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Latin

Genre:

Printed waste (Binding) -- 18th century.

Physical Description:

336 unnumbered pages ; 15 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Graece et Latine, Moralia qvaedam instituta

Fingerprint:

o-ra isce m.e. **** (C) 1523 (A)

Place of Publication:

Augustae Vindelicorum : Per Simpertum Ruff : Expensis D. Sigismundi Grim ..., Anno 1523.

Language Note:

Latin and Greek.

Contents:

(from t.p.) Cato noster, Maximo planude graeco interprete

Aurea carmina Pythagorae

Phocylidis poema exhortatorium

Senarij morales, diuersorum poetarum

Cebetis Tabula

Sententiae morales, multorum uiroru[m] illustriu[m].

Notes:

Dedicated to Johannes Schrot, abbot of Kloster Sankt Ulrich und Afra, Augsburg, by Ottmar Luscinius.

Imprint from colophon on leaf X8r, which reads: Augustae Vindelicorum, per Simpertum ruff, Expensis D. Sigismundi Grim, mense Decembri, reparatae salutis Anno. 1523.

Signatures: A-T⁸ V⁴ X⁸.

Without pagination.

Woodcut initial; woodcut printer's device on leaf X8v.

Woodcut border elements (inner margin of rectos of leaves L1-O5).

Typographical ornaments.

Local Notes:

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1957.

Penn Libraries copy has a few ms. underlines in text; early ms. annotation on leaf C5r; a few early ms. corrections to text on leaf C6r; early ms. note (struck through) on leaf P1r.

Penn Libraries copy bound in paper boards; 4 raised bands on spine; ms. spine label with brief title; all edges red; 1 printed sheet of 4 leaves (8 pages, of which 4 are visible, each with German text, page number (314, 315, 318, 319) and headline: 40 St. den 17. May 1787.), partially marbled, folded and used as wrapper (with illegible ms. spine label).

Penn Libraries copy: spine damaged.

Cited in:

VD 16 N 28

OCLC:

761460915