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Protrepticus ingeniorum puerorum.

Accession number
PML 78361
Creator
Celtis, Konrad, 1459-1508.
Object title

Protrepticus ingeniorum puerorum.

Published

[Vienna] : [Johann Winterburg], [approximately 1500]

Description

[1] leaf ; 30 cm (broadside)

Credit line
Purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper Fund, 1985.
Notes
Title from caption: Conradi celtis [blank, with Greek inscription] ingeniu[rum] [sic] puero[rum] [et] in quibus rebus dirigi [et] institui debeant p[ro]trepticus.
Explicit: Repub[lica]: l[itte]rarie Vienne[n]siu[m] totiq[ue] germanie ad emulatione[m] greco[rum] [et] latino[rum] fauste [et] feliciter positu[m].
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Winterburg's types 6:79G and 7:86G.
1 leaf, printed on 1 side only.
Paper format: Chancery half-sheet.
Blank space in printed title caption requires manuscript completion of Greek text.
Four section incipits: Leges et statuta servorum litterariorum, Leges ingenuorum et studiosorum adolescentum, Ex aula Universitatis Viennensis, and Ad Sigismundum fusilium Vratislaviensem de bis que futurus philosophus scire debeat (i.e. Ode I.2, Fusili binis mihi notus annis).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.3 x 19.8 cm.
Binding
Not bound, in folder.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: Title completed with contemporary Greek inscription: "peripedeias."
Provenance
Salzburg (Austria), Stift Sankt Peter, Benedictines (provenance from Langer-Dolch); Hartung & Karl, Munich, Auktion 49, 7 May 1985, lot 142a; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper Fund, May 1985.
Classification
Century
Department