Details

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

In Latin.

Biography/History:

Jurist of Strasbourg, Hellenist, corrector for the presses of Schürer and Froben, and student and assistant of Erasmus.

Summary:

Letter written from Strasbourg to Joachim Camerarius, professor of Greek at the University of Tübingen, which accompanied a copy of Gerbel's edition in Greek of the Anabasis of Alexander by the Greek historian Arrian, published by R. Winter in Basel in 1539. A negative photograph of the letter and a transcription of the letter, signed Paul Langeard and dated 1963, are filed with the manuscript.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Francis Roux-Devillas (Paris), 1963.

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 Pres, 1965), p. 47 (Ms. Latin 198).

Contributor:

Camerarius, Joachim, 1500-1574, addressee.
Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

229142189