Bedencken auffs Interim Des Ehrwirdigen vnd Hochgelarten Herrn Philippi Melanthonis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Melanchthon, Philip, 1497-1560.

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Interim of Augsburg (1548).

Physical Description:

30 unnumbered pages ; 19 cm (4to)

Fingerprint:

ennd hta- ckht zude (C) 1548 (A)

Place of Publication:

[Magdeburg?] : [publisher not identified], 1548.

Notes:

Signatures: A-C⁴ D⁴(-D4?).

Without pagination.

Woodcut initial.

Several variant versions of this text were printed in Magdeburg by Michael Lotter or Hans Walther. Cf. VD 16 M 4323-4327. In this variant, leaf A2r, line 10 begins: "kentnis sey"; leaf D3r, line 18 begins: "wir / Er wol auch"; leaf D3r, line 24 contains a single typographical ornament (a club or Kreuzchen).

Not to be identified with VD 16 M 4323, M 4324, M 4325, or M 4326.

Bound in after the last printed leaf are 7 ms. leaves (the last leaf blank), containing copies of 2 16th-century letters from and to William IV of Hesse-Kassel regarding the imprisonment of his father Philipp I by Charles V. For a fuller description of the ms. portion of this item, see record for: Wilhelm IV, Landgrave of Hesse. Correspondence of Wilhelm IV. Germany, after 1552.

Local Notes:

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1952.

Penn Libraries copy bound in paper boards; ms. imprint and title ("1548. Sine Loco Bedencken aufs Interim des Philippis[?] Melanchton.") and inscription ("N 70") in brown ink on left board; ms. spine label ("Melanchton").

Penn Libraries copy has 2 ms. shelf-marks(?) on front pastedown; a few early ms. marginal notes in text.

Penn Libraries copy: leaves cropped at fore-edge margin with minor damage to ms. marginalia.

Cited in:

Kuczyński, A. Thesaurus libellorum, 1949

OCLC:

54260559