Liber egregius de unitate ecclesiae, cuius autor periit in Concilio Constantiensi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hus, Jan, 1369?-1415.

Contributor:

Petri, Adam, 1454-1527, printer.

Henry Charles Lea Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Czech Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Christian union--Early works to 1800.

Christian union.

Penn Provenance:

Hodgkin, John Eliot (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Strackius, Theodorus (autograph, 1621) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Withof, Johann Hildebrand, 1694-1769 (autograph, 1762) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 231 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 23 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Liber egregivs de vnitate ecclesiae, cuius autor periit in Concilio Constantiensi

Fingerprint:

et53 daas i-me frde (3) 1520 (R)

Place of Publication:

[Basel] : [Adam Petri], MDXX [1520]

Notes:

Also issued under the titles "De causa Boemica", and "Historia et monumenta".

Statement of responsibility from explicit on leaf 2G4r, which reads: Explicit Tractatus magistri Ioannis Hus, qu[a]e collegit anno d[omi]ni .M.CCCC.XIII. et est pronu[n]ciatus publice in ciuitate Pragensi.

Place of printing and printer's name supplied from VD 16; date of printing from colophon on leaf 2G4r which reads: Excudebat typis hoc opus mense Augusto, An M.D.XX

Signatures: A-2G⁴.

Woodcut initial.

Printed marginalia.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries Lea copy has ms. marginalia.

Penn Libraries Culture Class Collection copy bound with: Hus, Jan. Ioannes Huss De anatomia Antichristi liber unus. [Strasbourg : Johann Schott, 1524].

Penn Libraries Culture Class Collection copy has red and black armorial bookplate of J. Eliot Hodgkin on front pastedown; autograph of Johann Hildebrand Withof (dated 1762) on verso of front free endpaper; autograph of Theodorus Strackius (dated 25 April 1621) at foot of title leaf of first work in volume; ms. initials ("J.J.G.G.") and John Eliot Hodgkin's monogram ("IEH") on back pastedown.

Penn Libraries Culture Class Collection copy has on back pastedown a red and black bookplate headed "Adnotatio" with John Eliot Hodgkin's monogram ("IEH") at foot. Within a decorative frame containing names of 19th-century bibliographers is a ms. description of this copy in black and red ink; sale prices (from Brunet?) are recorded in ms. in the corners of the plate. Three further annotations have been added in brown ink (1 on plate and 2 on pastedown), 1 of which is signed with Hodgkin's(?) monogram.

Penn Libraries Culture Class Collection copy: initial hand-colored in red ink; early underlines, marks, and annotations in brown or red ink in text; ms. shelf-mark(?) in red ink on front pastedown; ms. contents note in brown ink on verso of front free endpaper; ms. note in brown ink at head of title leaf; modern ms. notes in pencil on back free endpaper.

Penn Libraries Culture Class Collection copy has modern ms. sale note ("Sotheby 12/16 May 1914 756 Huss") in pencil on front pastedown; modern ms. note ("Einband NP") in pencil on front free endpaper.

Penn Libraries Culture Class Collection copy bound in full early blind-tooled brown leather over indented wooden boards (border elements include small portraits of Christ, St. Peter, St. Paul and St. John the Baptist with abbreviated Latin mottoes); 4 raised, blind-ruled bands on spine; blind tooled spine panels; ms. title at head of spine; evidence of 2 leather and metal clasps affixed to lower board; 2 metal catchplates affixed to upper board.

Cited in:

Adams H-1210

BM STC German, 1455-1600, p. 438

VD 16 H6173

OCLC:

84342102