Description of University of Pennsylvania Ms. Codex 1593: Confutatio libelli Philippi Melanchtonis cuius titulus est De officio principum, quod mandatum dei praecipiat eis tollere abusus ecclesiasticos University of Pennsylvania These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Codex 1593: Confutatio libelli Philippi Melanchtonis cuius titulus est De officio principum, quod mandatum dei praecipiat eis tollere abusus ecclesiasticos are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. Metadata is © and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Ms. codex. Title from caption title (f. 2r). Each of the printed works is cataloged individually; to retrieve those records as a set, search for the call number as a phrase. 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206. University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Codex 1593 9950087403503681 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155903212 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5008740 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. Latin Confutatio libelli Philippi Melanchtonis cuius titulus est De officio principum, quod mandatum dei praecipiat eis tollere abusus ecclesiasticos Apel, Nikolaus, 1482-1545 former owner Salzperg, Joannes former owner Rosinus, Stephan, 1470-1548

paper

 31 leaves : 198 x 146 (166 x 96) mm. bound to 212 x 160 mm

Paper, 31; 1¹⁰ 2⁸ 3⁶ 4⁸(-1); [1-31], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto, manuscript portion of volume only.

 Written in 27 long lines. Written in a cursive script, possibly in the hand of the author (Zacour-Hirsch).

Contemporary blindpressed pigskin (Zacour-Hirsch) over wooden boards with two clasps.

Written in Mostburg (f. 3r) in 1540 (f. 2r, 3r).

1540 Mostburg 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. Book Type Accounts Antiphonary Armorial Bible Biography Book of Hours Breviary Chronicle Collection of Sermons Commentary Dictionary Document Dogale Friendship book Genealogy Glossary Gospel Lectionary Gospels Gradual Haggadah Homilary Horologion Hymnal Koran Lectionary Mass book Miscellany Missal Pontifical Portolan chart Prayer book Private devotional text Processional Protective scroll Psalter Psalter-Hours Qur`an Recipe book Saint's Life Scribal manual Song book Torah Treatise Century 6th century 7th century 8th century 9th century 10th century 11th century 12th century 13th century 14th century 15th century 16th century 17th century 18th century 19th century 20th century Culture Abbasid Arabic Armenian Ashkenazi Austrian Byzantine Carolingian Chinese Christian Coptic Dutch Egyptian English Ethiopian Fatimid Flemish French German Indian Islamic Italian Jewish Mamluk Mughal Ottoman Ottonian Persian Portuguese Qajar Rajput Russian Safavid Sephardi Spanish Timurid Turkish Yemenite Descriptive term Accordion book Album Annotated Binding Calligraphy Caroline minuscule Chart Charter Colophon Damage Diagrams Drawing Early Abbasid script Fragment Gloss Gothic Gothic book hand Grisaille Grotesques Headpiece Heraldry Historiated initial Humanistic Illumination Illustration Inhabited initial Kufic Manicules Medallion Micrography Miniature Missing leaves Musical notation New Abbasid style Notable binding Original binding Ornament Painting Palimpsest Paper Penwork initial Puzzle initial Ragini Romanesque Scrapbook Scroll Scroll-work initial Seals Tables Textura Treasure binding Watermark White-vine lettering Woodcuts Geography Afghanistan Armenia Austria Belgium Central Arab lands (Near East) Central Asia China Egypt England Ethiopia Flanders France Germany Greece India Iran Iraq Israel Italy Maghreb Morocco Netherlands Pakistan Portugal Romania Russia Spain Sub-Saharan (West) Africa Turkey Wales Yemen Other Alchemy Allegory Astrology Astronomy Biblical Binding waste Cartography Church Fathers Cosmology Devotion Financial records Fortune-telling Friendship Games Geography Geomancy Grammar History Kabbalah Legal Literature -- Poetry Literature -- Prose Liturgy Logic Magic Maritime Mathematics Mineralogy Philosophy Piyutim Responsa Science Science -- Medicine Scripture Sufism Theology Catholic Church--Apologetic works--Early works to 1800 Lutheran Church--Controversial literature--Catholic authors--Early works to 1800 Counter-Reformation--Germany Codices Polemics Manuscripts, Latin--16th century Manuscripts, Renaissance 16th century Paper Christian German Polemic