Ankunfft, Leben vnd wesen, glück vnd unglück, gut vnd böse, weise vnnd vnweise Räthe, Reden, Anschläge, Ritterliche, mannliche Thaten, Merckliche warhaffte Historien vnd Geschichten, frommer vnd vnfrommer hoher, fürtrefflicher Manns vnd Frawen personen : Nemlich, der Griechen vnnd Römer (da solche in höchster blü gestanden) leben Fürbündiger Tugentspiegel vnnd Exempel, Viler Reich vnd Stende an vnd abgang Alter Historien liecht, warheyt, kern vnnd blumen / von dem namhafftigsten Griechischen Geschichtschreiber Plutarcho beschriben vnd volgends ins Teutsch bracht, durch den fürnemen vnd weisen Herrn Hieronymum Boner ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Plutarch.

Contributor:

Grüninger, Bartholomäus, -1543?, printer.

Boner, Hieronymus, approximately 1490-1556.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Greek Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Lives. German. 1547

Language:

German

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

Greece.

Greece--Biography--Early works to 1800.

Rome--Biography--Early works to 1800.

Rome.

Rome (Empire).

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

5 unnumbered pages, CCXXXV, CCXXXIIII-CCCCLXXXIIII pages, 1 unnumbered page, CLXI pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 32 cm (folio chiefly in sixes)

Other Title:

Ankunfft, Leben und wesen, glück und unglück, gut und böse, weise unnd unweise Räthe, Reden, Anschläge, Ritterliche, mannliche Thaten, Merckliche warhaffte Historien und Geschichten frommer und unfrommer, hoher, fürtrefflicher Manns vnd Frawen personen

Historien und Geschichten frommer und unfrommer hoher fürtrefflicher Manns und Frawen personen.

Place of Publication:

Gedruckt inn der loblichen Statt Colmar : Durch Barptolomeum Grieninger, MDXLVII [1547]

Notes:

German translation of Plutarch's "Lives" by H. Boner.

Place of imprint and printer's name supplied from colophon which is dated MDXLI [1541]

Previously issued 1534. Work here is probably a resissue of 1541 ed. with new title page. Cf. Hoffmann and Benzing's Buchdrucker des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts (p. 71)

Title page printed in red and black.

Signatures: pi⁴ A-X⁶ Y⁸ Z⁶ 2A-4M⁶, ²A-²Dd⁶.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy wanting final leaf (presumably blank)

Culture Class Collection copy bound in blind-stamped pigskin over beveled edge wooden boards; inner panel on front cover stamped the motto GOTTES WORT BLEW and with initials V D M I E in the ribbon above the coat of arms; back cover with central panel stamp of Judith and Holofernes; remains of clasps.

Cited in:

Hoffmann, S.F.W. Bibl. Litt. der griechen, III, p. 208

Shaaber, M.A. 16th cent. imprints, P467

VD16 P 3769

Grässe, J.G.T. Trésor de livres rares et précieux V, p. 364

OCLC:

6932715