Ioannis Mvrmellii Ruremundensis libellus optatissimus cui titulus Pappa, in quo hæc insunt : variar[um] rer[um] dictiones latinæ, nuper plus qua[m] mille & centum receptis vocabulis diligenter auctæ, cum germanica interpretatione : oratiunculæ variæ & ipse vltra dimidium ampliatæ, puerorum vsui expositæ : præcepta moralia adiecta interpretatione germanica : protrita item quædam prouerbia & latino & vernaculo sermo[n]e co[n]scripta huic libello addita est forma declinandi & coniugandi q[um] breuissima, semoto di alogo (vt moris est) sermo[n]e primis puericiæ stipendijs merentibus tyrunculis non inutilis, vna cum casuum & tempor[um] vernacula interpretatione suis locis inserta : item carminu[m] probandor[um] exercitiu[m] per quatuor decim quȩstiones congestu[m] grammaticȩ rei studiosis utilissimum.
Contributor
Urs Graf [Engraver]
Editor
Sauffer Gervas
Note
[8], 216 [i.e. 108], 217-257, [3] pages ; 22 cm. (4to)
Edited and translated by Gervasius Sopherus.
Full colophon reads: Finem habet hoc pulcherrimum opusculum apud inclytam Germaniæ Basileam, Stanneis calamis in Officina Adæ Petri de Langendorff politissime excriptu[m]. Anno domini Iesu nati supra sesquimillesimum decimoseptimo, tertia die me[n]sis Augusti.
Pagination: [8] unnumbered pages; [108] pages printed in double columns with the columns numbered 1-216; pages numbered 217-257; [1] unnumbered page; [2] blank pages.
Includes index.
Signatures: 2a⁴ a-t⁴ (t4 blank).
Title in architectural border with monogram of Urs Graf.
Woodcut arms on verso of title, and one large woodcut initial in text.
BOUND WITH:
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. M. Tullii Ciceronis Epistole familiares. Ex Secunda recognitione. Argentorati : Accuratius recognitae in aedibus Matthiae Schurerii, 1517.
https://crrs.library.utoronto.ca/items/show/10049
-- Horace. Quinti Horatii Flacci Epodon liber. Argentorati : Ex aedibus Matthiae Schurerij, 1516.
https://crrs.library.utoronto.ca/items/show/10042
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. M. Tullii Ciceronis Epistole familiares. Ex Secunda recognitione. Argentorati : Accuratius recognitae in aedibus Matthiae Schurerii, 1517.
https://crrs.library.utoronto.ca/items/show/10049
-- Horace. Quinti Horatii Flacci Epodon liber. Argentorati : Ex aedibus Matthiae Schurerij, 1516.
https://crrs.library.utoronto.ca/items/show/10042
In original Latin with German translation.
This sammelband binds Johannes Murmellius’s popular Latin primer and Latin-German dictionary between contemporary editions of Cicero’s letters and Horace’s epics, couching the vernacular German within a classical Latin context. Heavily annotated in contemporary hand.
Archive Location
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Call Number
with PA6297 .A3 1515
Files
Collection
Citation
Johann Murmellius, “Ioannis Mvrmellii Ruremundensis libellus optatissimus cui titulus Pappa, in quo hæc insunt : variar[um] rer[um] dictiones latinæ, nuper plus qua[m] mille & centum receptis vocabulis diligenter auctæ, cum germanica interpretatione : oratiunculæ variæ & ipse vltra dimidium ampliatæ, puerorum vsui expositæ : præcepta moralia adiecta interpretatione germanica : protrita item quædam prouerbia & latino & vernaculo sermo[n]e co[n]scripta huic libello addita est forma declinandi & coniugandi q[um] breuissima, semoto di alogo (vt moris est) sermo[n]e primis puericiæ stipendijs merentibus tyrunculis non inutilis, vna cum casuum & tempor[um] vernacula interpretatione suis locis inserta : item carminu[m] probandor[um] exercitiu[m] per quatuor decim quȩstiones congestu[m] grammaticȩ rei studiosis utilissimum.,” Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies (CRRS) Rare Book Collection, accessed June 28, 2025, https://crrs.library.utoronto.ca/items/show/9781.