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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1427

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 1609

Title:

Correspondence of Wilhelm IV

Letters

Author:

Wilhelm IV, Landgrave of Hesse, 1532-1592

William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel Linked Data indicator

WIKIDATA

Place:

Germany

TGN

Date:

after 1552

sixteenth century (dates CE) Linked Data indicator

AAT

Language:

German

WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper

AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 7 leaves : paper ; 187 x 143 (165 x 100) mm bound to 190 x 147 mm

Note:

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...
Foliation: Paper, 7; [1-7], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Layout: Written in 20-23 long lines.
Script: Written in German cursive script.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet Couronne 4960 (Siegen, 1515) and 4962 (Waiblingen, 1519), but with a small cross and quartered circle below the circle supporting the crown.
Binding: Boards, with manuscript spine label Melanchton (printed work) and inscription on upper cover also concerning printed work.
Origin: Written in Germany after 1552 (date of correspondence, f. 3v, 6v).
Sold by Haus der Bücher (Basel, Switzerland), 1952.
Transferred from Culture Class collection, University of Pennsylvania, 2011.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, German

Manuscripts, Renaissance

codices (bound manuscripts)

Hybrid books

Philipp I, Landgraf von Hessen, 1504-1567

Schmalkaldic War (1546-1547)

Early works

Germany--Saxony

Politics and government

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9953154013503681