[Rarebooks] For Sale: Unknown 16th C. poem

[Norman Kane]

SCHLEIFER, JOHANN.  DISTICHA EVANGELIORUM TOTIUS ANNI-COMPENDIOSO CARMINE DESCRIPTA.  [Wittenberg?  ca. 1570?]  One gathering of 8 leaves, 5 1/2 X 3 1/2 inches bound in a folded printed leaf in Latin.  Old exlibris written at foot of title page.  Woodcut illustrations of The Passion on recto and verso of title leaf; other decorations plus a tailpiece of acorns and oak leaves. The author, an attorney, is described as a "Laureato ac Jure 
Consulto."   The dedication of this Latin poem is to [Duke?] Christopher Albert & Elizabeth, and to his fellow poet, Johann Christoper Fuchs of Wallenberg. Apparently unknown to OCLC, Adams & KVK. (The KVK does list a copy of his "Elogiae . . . Pauli Eberi Senioris", Wittenberg, 1570, at the University Library at Augsburg.)   Need we say, RARE.  
$850.00        (Trade Discount Available)



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