Antwort Herrn Iohan Abts zů Spanhaim, auff acht fragstuck, jme von weylandt Herrn Maximilian Röm. Kayser &c. hochlöblichster gedechtnuss, fürgehalten : in Latein beschriben, vnd jetzund in das Teütsch erstlich transsferirt ... mit Kayserlicher Mayestet Freyhaiten nit nachzůdrucken.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trithemius, Johannes, 1462-1516

Contributor:

Ziegler, Hieronymus, approximately 1514-1562.

Weissenhorn, Alexander, -1570, printer.

Weissenhorn, Samuel, -1567 or 1568, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

German Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Liber octo quaestionum ad Maximilianum Caesarem. German

Language:

German

Latin

Subjects (All):

Church history.

History.

Germany--History--Maximilian I, 1493-1519--Early works to 1800.

Germany.

Germany--Church history--16th century--Early works to 1800.

Faith--Early works to 1800.

Faith.

Penn Provenance:

Jesuits (Altötting, Germany) (former owner) (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy 2)

Heussius, Jo. (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy 2)

Physical Description:

140 unnumbered pages : illustrations (woodcut) ; 21 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Antwort Herrn Johan Abts zů Spanhaim, auff acht fragstuck, ime von weylandt Herrn Maximilian Röm. Kayser &c. hochlöblichster gedechtnuss, fürgehalten

Fingerprint:

t-hs d,r- asas puwi (C) 1555 (R)

Place of Publication:

Gedruckt zů Ingolstat : Durch Alexander vnnd Samuel Weyssenhorn gebrüder, MDLV [1555]

Contents:

(from t. p.) Die acht Fragstuck: 1. Vom Glauben vnd Verstand

2. Vom notwendigen Glauben zůr Seligkait

3. Von Wunderzaichen der Vnglaubigen

4. Von Hayliger Geschrifft

5. Von den Gottlosen Hexen vnd Zauberern

6. Vom Gwalt vnd Macht der Hexen

7. Von Göttlicher Verhengknuss

8. Von Fürsehung Gottes Allmechtigen.

Notes:

Translator's pref. signed: Hieronimus Ziegler.

Dedication on p. [3] reads: "Der Duchleuchtigiste[n] hochgebornen Fürstin vnnd Frawen, Frawen Anna, Pfaltzgräfin bey Rhein, Hertzogin in Obern vnd Nidern Bayern [et]c. gebornen Ertzhertzogin von Osterreich [et]c."

Signatures: A-Q⁴ R² S⁴.

Leaf S4 is blank.

Without pagination.

Title page printed in red and black.

Woodcut coat of arms on t.p. verso.

Printed marginalia.

Local Notes:

Copy 1 purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1953.

Penn Libraries copy 1 has a few early ms. underlines in text; ms. numeral ("5.") in head outer corner of title leaf; partially illegible ms. inscription ("18. pagen[?] g[...] [...] [...]") at foot of title leaf.

Penn Libraries copy 1: two facsimiles available for public use.

Penn Libraries copy 2 is no. 5 in a volume of 7 mid-sixteenth-century German Christian theological works.

Copy 2 purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1959.

Penn Libraries copy 2 has partially illegible early ms. Jesuit ownership inscription ("Societatis Jesu Oetingae") in brown ink at head of title leaf of first work in volume; dated ms. inscription ("Ex dono R.D. Jo. Heussij S.T. Baccalaurei F. A[nn]o. 1603.") recording the gift of this volume by Jo[annes?] Heussius at foot of title leaf of first work in volume.

Penn Libraries copy 2 bound in full early parchment; evidence of 2 fore-edge ties; ms. contents list(?) on spine; leather ms. spine label ("Varia variorum"); remains of paper spine label; all edges blue.

Penn Libraries copy 2 has remains of leather finding tab affixed to fore-edge of title leaf.

Cited in:

VD 16 T 1989

OCLC:

48675796