Selectarum declamationum Philippi Melanthonis : quas conscripsit & partim ipse in schola Vuitebergensi recitauit, partim alijs recitandas exhibuit : tomus primus[-quartus].

Author
Melanchthon, Philip, 1497-1560 [Browse]
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Book
Language
Latin
Published/​Created
Argentorati [Strasbourg] : Samuel Emmel], 1564-1567.
Description
4 v. ; 18 cm. (8vo)

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    Notes
    • Selected university lectures by Melanchthon, and other contemporary Lutheran theologians, on a wide range of topics, theological and non-theological. Includes lecture (v. 4, p. 706-719) about, and epicede (v. 2, p. 409-410) on, the life and works of Erasmus of Rotterdam.
    • Prefatory epistles in v. 1-2 signed by N. Gerbelius, dated 1541 and 1543, respectively; that in v. 4 signed by C. Peucer, dated 1558.
    • Printer from VD 16.
    • Printer's device on t.p.
    • Includes index.
    • Ex copy is incomplete: vol. 2-4 wanting.
    • Ex copy is Gabriel Harvey's copy with his ms. notes.
    Binding note
    Ex copy in tawed pigskin bordered in blind with small ornaments and blocked in blind with portrait of Melanchthon on front cover and portrait of Luther on back cover.
    Source acquisition
    Purchase Estate of Lucius Wilmerding, Jr. 2003
    References
    VD 16 M 3572-3575
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    Also available in an electronic version.
    OCLC
    39301013
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