Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• Wilhelm IV, Landgrave of Hesse, 1532-1592
• Maurice, Elector of Saxony, 1521-1553
• Melanchthon, Philipp, 1497-1560
• Saxony (Electorate). Landschaft

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9953154013503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/768248653
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5315401

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

after 1552

Place

Germany

Summary

Collection of documents related to the aftermath of the Schmalkaldic War in Hesse in Saxony. The manuscript contents comprise copies of 2 letters: a letter dated 24 Feb. 1552 from Wilhelm IV to Maurice, Elector of Saxony, requesting a meeting to negotiate the release of Wilhelm's father, Philipp I, who was a leader of the Schmalkaldic League and imprisoned by Charles V as a traitor after the League's defeat; and a response dated 4 Mar. 1552 from the political leaders (Landschaft) of Saxony, asking Wilhelm to be patient.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Manuscript bound with a printed edition of Bedencken auffs Interim des ehrwirdigen und hochgelarten Herrn Philippi Melanthonis (1548), in which Melancthon expresses reservations and objections to the Augsburg Interim of 1548; from prison, Philipp I unsuccessfully urged the clergy of Hesse to accept the Interim; minimal marginal annotations. For a fuller description of this printed work, search the title Bedencken auffs Interim Des Ehrwirdigen vnd Hochgelarten Herrn Philippi Melanthonis.
   

Watermark

Extent

Foliation

Support

Binding

Layout

Script

Provenance

• Sold by Haus der Bücher (Basel, Switzerland), 1952.
   
• Transferred from Culture Class collection, University of Pennsylvania, 2011.
   

Subjects topical

• Schmalkaldic War, 1546-1547--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Hybrid books
• Manuscripts, German--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• Hybrid book
• 16th century
• Germany
• German
• Paper
• Correspondence

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