Initia doctrinae physicae : dictata in Academia Vuitebergensi / Philip Melanth. ; iterum edita.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Melanchthon, Philip, 1497-1560.

Contributor:

Lufft, Hans, 1495-1584, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Italian Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Science--Early works to 1800.

Science.

Genre:

Wooden boards (Binding) -- Germany -- 16th century.

Clasps (Binding) -- Germany -- 16th century.

Penn Provenance:

Starckh, Georg (autograph) (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Vuagnerus, Hulderichus Gamundianus (autograph) (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

206 leaves : table ; 17 cm (4to)

Fingerprint:

sæon i-i- anus effi (3) 1550 (A)

Place of Publication:

Witebergae : Per Johannem Lufft, 1550.

Notes:

Woodcut initials.

Signatures: A-Z⁸ a-b⁸ c⁶.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy bound in 16th-century pigskin over wooden boards; blind-stamped panels with Biblical figures and floral motifs on left and right board; "date 1551" blind-stamped on left board; three raised bands on spine; two metal clasps; title in ms. on outer edges.

Culture Class Collection copy has two ms. ownership inscriptions on title page: "Ex libris Georgij Starckh Aenipons [...] emptus Anno 80"" and "Sum Hulderichi Vuagneri Gamundiani".

Culture Class Collection copy has ms. underlines and side notes throughout.

Culture Class Collection bound with: Barbaro, Ermolao. Naturalis scientiae totius compendium, ex Aristotele, & alijs philosophis. Basileae : Ex officina Ioannis Oporini, Anno salutis humanae MDXLVIII mense Decembri [1548]

Cited in:

VD 16 M 3472

OCLC:

14304875