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De donatio Constantini quid ueri habeat, eruditorum quorundam iudicium, ut in uersa pagella uidebis.
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Constitutum Constantini--Early works to 1800.
- Constitutum Constantini.
- Genre:
- Wooden boards (Binding)
- Clasps (Binding)
- Penn Provenance:
- Abtei Liesborn (former owner) (inscription)
- Bechstein, Ludwig, 1801-1860 (autograph)
- Bechstein Library (bookplate)
- Physical Description:
- 98 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm (4to)
- Other Title:
- De donatio Constantini quid veri habeat, eruditorum quorundam judicium, ut in versa pagella videbis
- Fingerprint:
- i-be o-i- t.s, basu (C) 1520 (Q)
- Place of Publication:
- [Basel] : [Andreas Cratander], [1520]
- Language Note:
- Text in Latin, including Bartholomaeus Pincernus's translation from Greek of the Constitutum Constantini.
- Contents:
- (from t.p. verso) Hoc in libello haec continentur. Donationis, quae Constantini dicitur priuilegium, Bartholomeo Pincerno de monte arduo ad Iulium II. Pont. Max. interprete
- Laurentij Vallensis patritij Romani contra ipsum, ut falso creditu[m] & ementitum priuilegiu[m] declamatio, cu[m] Vdalrici Hutteni equitis Germani ad Leonem X. Pont. Max. pr[a]efatione
- Nicolaus de Cusa Tit[ulus] sancti Petri ad uincula de donatione Constantini
- Antoninus archiepiscopus Florentinus de eadem re.
- Notes:
- Imprint from VD 16.
- Signatures: A-B⁴ [beta]⁴ C-K⁴ L⁶(-L6?).
- Without pagination.
- Woodcut initial.
- Initial spaces, some with guide letters.
- Printed marginalia.
- Local Notes:
- Penn Libraries copy bound with: Negro, Pescennio Francesco. Ars epistolandi Francisci nigri veneti doctoris clarissimi. [Deventer : Jacobus Breda, 4 Sept. 1495]. (Goff N-245)
- Penn Libraries copy imperfect: gathering [beta] wanting.
- Penn Libraries copy has autograph ("L. Bechstein") of Ludwig Bechstein at head of front pastedown; early ms. ownership inscription ("Liber Conuentus Mo[naster]ij in Lysborn") of Abtei Liesborn on title leaf of first work in volume.
- Penn Libraries copy has ms. contents note beneath effaced ms. inscription on front pastedown; ms. shelf-mark(?) ("17") at head of front pastedown.
- Penn Libraries copy bound in full early blind-tooled leather over beveled-edged wooden boards; 4 raised bands on spine; 1 leather-and-metal clasp with metal catchplate.
- Penn Libraries copy: boards and spine repaired at hinges; spine cracked at head; two holes in leather of left board.
- Cited in:
- Benzing, J. Ulrich Hutten, no. 212
- Bocking, XIII, 1
- Hohenemser, P. Gustav Freytag, 2731
- Isaac, 14350
- Knaake, II, 368
- Kuczynski, A. Thesaurus libellorum, 1077
- VD 16 ZV 4645
- OCLC:
- 12234627
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