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De scriptorib[us] eccl[es]iasticis disertissimi viri Johannis de Tritte[n]hem abbatis Spa[n]heme[n]sis de scriptoribus ecclesiasticis collectanea : additis no[n]nulloru[m] ex rece[n]tiorib[us] vitis & no[min]ibus : qui scriptis suis hac nostra te[m]pestate clariores euaserunt.

Accession number
PML 129649.1
Creator
Trithemius, Johannes, 1462-1516.
Published
[Paris] : Venu[n]datur Parrhisi[is] a magistro Bertholdo Rembolt (vbi impressus e[st]) et a Ioa[n]ne Paruo, in vico Sancti Iacobi sub sole et lilio aureis, quoru[m] expe[n]sis i[m]press[us] e[st], [1512].
Credit line
Purchased on the Curt F. Bühler Fund, 2005.
Notes
First published in 1494 under title: Liber de scriptoribus ecclesiasticis.
Colophon: ... Parisiis. Anno D[omi]ni. M.DXII. Die vero. xvi. mensis Octobris.
Petit's printer's device on t.p. Another issue of the same year has device of Berthold Rembolt.
Title page printed in red and black.
Printer's mark on t.p.
Preliminary dedication signed by Johannes de Lapide.
Signatures: aa¹⁰; a-z⁸ A-D⁸ E⁴.
Description
[10], CCXX leaves ; 21 cm. (4to)
Provenance
Jacob Spiegel (1483-1547), of Sélestat (Bas-Rhin), printed armorial bookplate with poem, dated 1538, and inscription: "sum Ja. Spiegel Sletstadien;" Erasmus Schenk von Limburg (or Limpurg, 1507-1568), Bishop of Strasbourg (see bookseller's description); Saverne (Bas-Rhin), Franciscans, inscription: "Pro Franciscanis de observ. Sabernens," 17th century; Rastatt (Baden-Württemberg), Recollect Franciscans, inscription: "Pro conventu ff. [?] Recollector. Rastadiensium 1724;" Ignatius Franciscus Hauer, S.J., of Wertheim (Baden-Württemberg), inscription: "Parochus in Biel Ortenaviae(?) franc. Hauer Wth S.J.," 18th century; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased on the Curt F. Bühler Fund, 2005.
Binding
Half blind-tooled pigskin over beech boards, two clasps (missing).
Classification
Department