Ioci ac sales mire festiui / ab Ottomaro Luscinio Argentino partim selecti ex bonorum utrius[que] linguae authoru[m] mundo, partim longis peregrinatio[n]ibus uisi & auditi, ac in centurias duas digesti.

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:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Wit and humor, Medieval--Early works to 1800.

Wit and humor, Medieval.

Latin wit and humor--Early works to 1800.

Latin wit and humor.

Classical wit and humor--Early works to 1800.

Classical wit and humor.

Penn Provenance:

Royal College of Physicians of London (bookplate) (stamp)

Royal College of Physicians of London. Library (stamp)

Physical Description:

224 unnumbered pages ; 16 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Ioci ac sales mire festivi

Joci ac sales mire festivi

Fingerprint:

bahe u-a- acis reop (C) 1524 (R)

Place of Publication:

[Augsburg] : Excusi ... typis Symperti Růff ... : Impensa uero D. Sigismundi Grimmij ... Augustae Vindelicorum ..., Anno à reddita salute DMXXIIII [that is, 1524]

Notes:

Imprint from colophon on leaf O8r, which reads: Excusi sunt hij ioci Ottomari Luscinij, typis Symperti Růff, accuratissima adhibita opera, Impensa uero D. Sigismundi Grimmij Medici, Augustae Vindelicoru[m]. Idibus Februarij. Anno à reddita salute. D.M.XXIIII.

Signatures: A-O⁸.

Without pagination.

Woodcut initials and printer's device.

Errata on leaves O7v-O8r.

Local Notes:

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1962.

Penn Libraries copy bound in full mottled calf; boards triple-ruled in gold; 5 raised, gold-tooled bands on spine; gold-tooled spine panels; remains of gold-tooled leather spine label with author's name and brief title; gold-tooled cover edges; marbled endpapers; all edges speckled red; green silk marker.

Penn Libraries copy has armorial bookplate (headed: Coll. Reg. Med. Lond. MDXVIII.) of the Royal College of Physicians of London with the rectangular withdrawal stamp of its library on front pastedown; stamp ("Royal College of Physicians of London") in ink (now purple) on leaf preceding title leaf and on verso of title leaf, the former with ms. numeral ("6006") in center.

Penn Libraries copy has ms. shelf-mark(?) ("2H8") in brown ink on verso of front free endpaper; shelf-mark(?) ("3.H 19") in brown ink on verso of leaf preceding title leaf.

Cited in:

VD 16 N 26

OCLC:

81478258