Details

Subjects:

Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Cologne (Germany) -- History.
Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Cologne (Germany).
History.
Cologne (Germany) -- Church history.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Satires (literary works)
Poems.
Manuscripts, German.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

German.

Biography/History:

Pharmacist, printer, poet, and supporter of the Reformation, who is known to have written under the pseudonym Pasquillus or Pasquino, a pseudonym used by multiple authors of political lampoons in the 16th century.

Summary:

Poem, usually in rhymed couplets, apparently commemorating the occasion of Friedrich IV von Wied becoming the archbishop of Cologne. The poem traces and comments upon the history of the archbishopric beginning with the earlier tenure of Friedrich's uncle, Hermann V von Wied, who had been forced to resign after being in the post for 32 years.

Notes:

Ms. gathering.
Title from caption title (f. 1r) as well as a handwritten label (f. 4v).
Layout: Written in 25-27 long lines.
Script: Written in a German cursive hand.
Binding: Modern boards.
Origin: Written in Cologne in 1563.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Leuffer, 1952.

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. 80 (Ms.German 7).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1082

OCLC:

182560288