Institutio principis Christiani saluberrimis referta praeceptis [per] Erasmum Roterodamum, ab eodem recognita ; cu[m] alijs no[n]nullis eode[m] [per]tine[n]tibus, quoru[m] catalogu[m] in [pro]xima reperies pagella.

Desiderius Erasmus

Institutio principis Christiani saluberrimis referta praeceptis [per] Erasmum Roterodamum, ab eodem recognita ; cu[m] alijs no[n]nullis eode[m] [per]tine[n]tibus, quoru[m] catalogu[m] in [pro]xima reperies pagella.

1518

Basileam [Basel]

Apud Ioannem Frobenium [Johann Froben]

Latin

Isocrates

Plutarch

Johann Froben

CONTENT:
Includes Erasmus' Panegyric to Prince Philip of Burgundy and his translations of Isocrates' To Nicocles and Plutarch's Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur.

Printer's device on colophon (page [344]). Publisher and date of publication from colophon.

Signatures: a-m⁴, o-z⁴ A-X⁴.

Includes: Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536, Institutio principis Christiani
Isocrates, author To Nicocles. Latin.
Plutarch, author Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur. Latin.
Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536, author Ad illustrissimum Burgundionum Principem Philippum.

ILLUSTRATIONS:
Title and first page of Erasmus' text (page [9]) within woodcut ornamental borders; woodcut initials throughout text.

The title border with the beheading of John the Baptist and the two large initials with playing children are by Hans Holbein (Müller, Holbein 14 resp. 133); the rest comes from Froben’s stock of woodcuts.

FORMAT:
333 [that is, 343], [1] pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 23 cm (4to)

CONDITION:
Numerous errors in paging, including pages 342-343 misnumbered 332-333.

344

Institutio principis Christiani.

JC145 .E63 1518

Erasmus Rare

OCLC: (OCoLC)21841508