Erasmi Stellae Libonothani De Borussiae antiquitatibus libri duo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stella, Erasmus, approximately 1460-1521.

Contributor:

Froben, Johann, -1527, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

German Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Early Printed Binding Waste Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

De Borussiae antiquitatibus

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Antiquities.

Poland--Antiquities--Early works to 1800.

Poland.

Prussia (Germany)--Antiquities--Early works to 1800.

Prussia (Germany).

Penn Provenance:

Weigel, Oswald (stamp)

Physical Description:

38 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm (4to)

Other Title:

De Borussiae antiquitatibus libri duo

Erasmi Stellae Libonothani De Borvssiae antiqvitatibvs libri dvo

De Borvssiae antiqvitatibvs libri dvo

Fingerprint:

xedi eror e,ic uoin (3) 1518 (R)

Place of Publication:

Basileae : Apud Ioannem Frobenium ..., An. MDXVIII [1518]

Notes:

Imprint from colophon on leaf e4r, which reads: Basileae apud Ioannem Frobenium mense Martio an. M. D. XVIII.

Signatures: a-e⁴.

Title within an ornamental woodcut border incorporating the printer's device and the words "Apud inclytam Germaniae Basileam." Cf. P. Heitz, Basler Büchermarken, XXII. Woodcut printer's device on leaf e4v. Cf. P. Heitz, Basler Büchermarken, III.

Woodcut initials.

Local Notes:

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1957.

Penn Libraries copy has partially effaced stamp ("Oswa[...]gel Antiquariat [...] Le[...] Königsstr. 1") of bookseller Oswald Weigel of Leipzig in blue ink on front pastedown.

Penn Libraries copy has some early ms. annotations and a few underlines in text.

Penn Libraries copy bound in portions of early printed paper leaves from a glossed edition of the Decretum Gratiani, with text printed in red and black in double columns surrounded by gloss (also printed in red and black). Left board: text from pars 2, causa 16, quaestio 6. Right board: text from pars 2, causa 16, quaestio 7.

Penn Libraries copy has pinpoint wormhole in top portion of leaves.

Cited in:

BM STC German, 1455-1600, p. 831

VD 16 S 9792

OCLC:

22014322