Operum poeticorum Nicodemi Frischlini poetae, oratoris et philosophi pars scenica : in qua sunt, comoediae sex ... tragoediae duae ... : ex recentissima auctoris emendatione.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frischlin, Nicodemus, 1547-1590.

Contributor:

Jobin, Bernhard, approximately 1545-1593, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

German Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Penn Provenance:

Tydeman, Meinard, 1741-1825 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

16 unnumbered pages, 519 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 118 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 17 cm (8vo)

Fingerprint:

u.s: s.x. immo EtNu (3) 1589 (R)

Place of Publication:

[Argentorati] : Excudebat Bernhardus Iobin, Anno MDLXXXIX [1589]

Contents:

(from t.p.) Rebecca

Susanna

Hildegardis

Iulius rediuiuus

Priscianus vapulans

Helvetiogermani

Venus

Dido.

Notes:

Place of printing not on title leaf (supplied from elsewhere in volume; cf. VD 16).

Signatures: ):(⁸ A-Z⁸ Aa-Ii⁸ Kk⁴ 2A-2G⁸ 2H⁴.

Woodcut title vignette (printer's device), illustrations and initials.

Printed marginalia.

"Helvetiogermani, comoedia nova" has special title leaf and separate signatures and pagination.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: all after leaf Kk4 wanting.

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1955.

Penn Libraries copy has dated 19th-century autograph ("M. Tydeman, 1808."), possibly that of Meinard Tydeman, followed by ms. biographical notes on Nicodemus Frischlin in the same hand, on front free endpaper.

Penn Libraries copy has ms. bio-bibliographical notes on Nicodemus Frischlin in brown ink on verso of front free endpaper; early ms. bio-bibliographical note concerning Friedrich Taubmann in brown ink on leaf preceding title leaf (detached from spine and laid in); a few ms. underlines in ink and a few ms. marginal marks in pencil in text.

Penn Libraries copy bound in full calf; 4 raised, gold-tooled bands on spine; gold-tooled spine panels; brief title ("FRISCHL[...] OPERA POETICA") stamped in gold on spine; gold-tooled cover edges; all edges stippled red.

Penn Libraries copy: backstrip detached.

Cited in:

VD 16 F 2906

OCLC:

612544134