Details

Subjects:

Melanchthon, Philip, 1497-1560. De officio principum.
Catholic Church -- Apologetic works -- Early works to 1800.
Catholic Church.
Lutheran Church -- Controversial literature -- Catholic authors -- Early works to 1800.
Counter-Reformation -- Germany.
Counter-Reformation.
Lutheran Church -- Controversial literature -- Catholic authors.
Lutheran Church.
Germany.

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)
polemics.
Hybrid books.
Manuscripts, Latin -- 16th century.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Apologetic writings.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

A detailed refutation of De officio principum by Philipp Melanchthon, bound into the middle of a collection of printed works by Johannes Cochlaeus, whose own challenge to the works of Melancthon follows the work by Apel.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from caption title (f. 2r).
Collation: Paper, 31; 1¹⁰ 2⁸ 3⁶ 4⁸(-1); [1-31], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto, manuscript portion of volume only.
Layout: Written in 27 long lines.
Script: Written in a cursive script, possibly in the hand of the author (Zacour-Hirsch).
Binding: Contemporary blindpressed pigskin (Zacour-Hirsch) over wooden boards with two clasps.
Origin: Written in Mostburg (f. 3r) in 1540 (f. 2r, 3r).
Each of the printed works is cataloged individually; to retrieve those records as a set, search for the call number as a phrase.

Penn Provenance:

Early ownership inscriptions for volume by Joannes Salzperg (inside upper cover); Stephanus Rosinus of Augsburg, canon of Passau (first printed title page); and the Jesuits of Altötting (Societatis Jesu Oetingae, first printed title page).
Purchased, 1959; transferred from Culture Class collection, 2011.

Cited in:

Manuscript work described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800, Supplement B. Library Chronicle 45 (1981), p. 7 (Ms. Latin 265).

Cited as:

Confutatio libelli Philippi Melanchtonis (Ms. Codex 1593). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

Contributor:

Salzperg, Joannes, former owner.
Rosinus, Stephan, 1470-1548, former owner.

OCLC:

733766459

Access Restriction:

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