De maiorvm divi Maximiliani II. Roman: imp: vita defunctorum monumẽtis, sepulchris, templis, fanis, coenobijs, alijsq́ue huiusmodi ab ijs extructis, de natiuitatis item, mortisq́ue temporibus, inde vsq; : à Clodoueo, primo christiano Gallorum rege, ad diui Maximiliani II. obitum. D. Iacobi Menlii libellvs. Addita est appendix eiusdem Maximiliani II. posteros & consanguineos atque affines, non tantum mortuos, verum etiam viuentas continens. / Georgii Barrevtteri bibliothecae Rom: caes: maiestatis quae Viennae est bibliopegae sumptibus in lucem emissa ...

Accession number: 
PML 195072
Author: 
Mennel, Jakob, -1532?
Published: 
Avgvstae Vindelicorvm : Valentinus Schônigius imprimebat. M.D.XCIII [1593].
Credit: 
Purchased on the Henry S. Morgan Fund, 2008.
Description: 
[8], 147, [10] p. 20 cm. (4to)
Notes: 

A translation & continuation of his "Seel unnd heiligen Buch kaiser Maximilians altfordern" (1522); the translation & continuation are by Hugo Blotius, as appears from the ms. of this work, Vindob. lat. 7432 (cf. Chmel, Die Handschriften der k. k. Hofbibliothek in Wien, I. 496).

Binding: 
Full sheep by the court bookbinder Georg Barreuther, gilt tooled with the arms of Emperor Maximilian I, Elizabeth of Austria, and an unidentified member of the Habsburg family.
Variant Title: 

De Maiorum Divi Maximiliani II. Roman. Imp. vita defunctorum Monumentum, sepulchris, templis, fanis, coenobijs, alijsque huiusmodi ab ijs extructis, de nativitatis item, mortisque temporibus, Inde usque à Clodoveo, primo Christiano Gallorum Rege, ad Divi Maximiliani II. obitum

Provenance: 
Bookplate of J. L. Trautson von Falkenstein and ownership inscription of Joseph von Lassberg, whose collection became part of the Fürstenberg library at Donaueschingen.
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