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Johannis Tostii clarissimorum Witebergensium professorum descriptio.

Author/Creator:
Tostius, Johannes.
Format/Description:
Manuscript
8 leaves : paper ; 200 x 159 mm bound to 204 x 161 mm
Production:
[Wittenberg], [1582]
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Other Title:
Clarissimorum Witebergensium professorum descriptio.
Subjects:
Universität Wittenberg -- History.
Universität Wittenberg.
Latin poetry, Medieval and modern -- Early works to 1800.
Education -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800.
Education.
Latin poetry, Medieval and modern.
History.
Wittenberg (Saxony-Anhalt, Germany) -- Intellectual life.
Form/Genre:
Codices.
Poems.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Poetry.
Language:
Latin.
Biography/History:
Student or professor at the University of Wittenberg from Vratislava (modern Wroclaw), Silesia (f. 1r).
Summary:
Quatrains about professors in subjects such as theology, law, medicine, and philosophy at the University of Wittenberg, including Johannes Bugenhagius Pomeranus, Andreas Schadt, Casparius Strubius, Petrus Albinus Nivemontus, and M. Johannes Grunius, introduced by a dedication to Haubold of Einsidel in Scharffenstein, perhaps chancellor of Augustus, Elector of Saxony. The title page mimics that of a printed book by attributing the printing to Matthaeus Vuelack, but the manuscript is not known to have been printed.
Contents:
Dedication: Amplissimo nobilitate generis, sapientia, authoritate ... [text] Johannes Schutz Hallensis, sacrosanctae theologiae licentatus et professor ... Quis te multiplici cinget honore. Deus. Finis (f. 1v-4v).
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title, author, and date from title page (f. 1r).
Collation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 8 + i (modern paper); 1⁸; [1-8]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Main text of names and titles, each followed by a quatrain, centered on the page, with a marginal note connected to each quatrain.
Script: Written in an italic script by a single hand.
Binding: Modern boards.
Origin: Written in Wittenberg in 1582 (f. 1r).
Penn Provenance:
Sold by Bernhard Wendt (Buch am Ammersee, Germany), 1961.
Cited in:
Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 37 (Ms. Latin 161).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 914
Contributor:
Welack, Matthaeus, -1593.
OCLC:
155930786