Karsthans.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vadianus, Joachim, 1484-1551.

Hutten, Ulrich von, 1488-1523.

Prüss, Johann, active 1511-1554, printer.

Swiss Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Dialogues, German--Early works to 1800.

Dialogues, German.

Reformation--Sources.

Reformation.

Religious disputations--Germany--16th century.

Religious disputations.

Germany.

Physical Description:

16 unnumbered leaves ; 20 cm (4to)

Fingerprint:

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Place of Publication:

[Strasbourg] : [Johann Prüss], [1521]

Summary:

An attack on Thomas Murner in the form of a dialogue among five persons, among whom is Martin Luther.

Notes:

Imprint from VD 16.

Signatures: 2a-2d⁴ (-2d4 blank).

Published anonymously. Attributed to Joachim von Watt. Cf. Grosse Brockhaus, 1979, vol. 6, p. 185 and to Ulrich von Hutten. Cf. British Museum catalog.

Title vignette: woodcut of a nobleman, a monk with the head of a cat [Thomas Murner], Martin Luther, and the farmer figure Karsthans with his scythe.

"Diss sindt die fünff so vnder innen selbs ein Gesprech vnd Red halten, Murner, Karsthans, Studens, Luther, Mercurius"--Caption, p. [3].

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has bibliographic note in pencil on front pastedown.

Cited in:

Pegg, M.A. Catalogue of German Reformation pamphlets in Swiss libraries, 2592

VD 16, K 135

OCLC:

851253359