Epistolae clarorum virorum : selectae de quamplurimis optimae, ad indicandam nostrorum temporum eloquentiam : nunc demùm emendatae, auctae, summa[que] diligentia excusae.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gymnich, Johann, -1596, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

German Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Latin letters, Medieval and modern--Early works to 1800.

Latin letters, Medieval and modern.

Humanism--Early works to 1800.

Humanism.

Genre:

Printers' devices (Printing) -- Germany -- Cologne -- 16th century.

Manuscript waste (Binding)

Penn Provenance:

Pollonde(?), Michael (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Jupe, Giles (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 320 pages ; 17 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Epistolae clarorvm virorvm

Fingerprint:

5197 emna fuam mime (3) 1586 (R)

Place of Publication:

Coloniae Agrippinae [Cologne] : Apud Ioannem Gymnicum ..., Anno MDLXXXVI [1586]

Notes:

Signatures: *⁴ A-T⁸ V-X⁴.

Leaf T1 signed "t".

Woodcut title vignette (printer's device) and initial.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1964.

Penn Libraries copy has early autograph of Michael Pollonde(?) in two places on title leaf; dated autograph ("Giles Jupe 1884") in pencil on verso of title leaf.

Penn Libraries copy has ms. shelf-mark in ink and a few ms. notes in pencil on verso of left board; some early ms. underlines and a few marginal notes and marks in text.

Penn Libraries copy bound in full blind-tooled leather; spine rebacked; 4 raised bands on spine; brief title ("EPISTOLAE") stamped in gold on spine; endpapers wanting; portions of early ms. parchment leaves used as binder's waste.

Penn Libraries copy: leaves dampstained.

Cited in:

VD 16 E1717

Adams E280

BM STC German, 1455-1600, p. 274

OCLC:

82312603