Lucubrationes, ab innumeris mendis repurgatæ. and Selections. 1563
Description:
A collection of five works and 13 letters written by Thomas More., Beinecke copy imperfect: leaves M5-N8 wormed., Contents (from title page): Vtopiæ libri II. -- Progymnasmata. -- Epigrammata. -- Ex Luciano conuersa quædam. -- Declamatio Lucianicæ respondens. -- Epistolæ., Errata (p. [45], third count)., Includes index., Signatures: alpha-beta⁸ a-z⁸ A-N⁸ (alpha 1 verso, beta 8 verso blank., Story of "Utopia" (p. [3-32], first count; 1-164, second count) set in the New World, with references to Vespucci and his voyages on p. 4-5., This collection includes: "Epistola Des. Erasmi Rot. ad Vldricum Huttenum, de Thomæ Mori Angliæ baronis uita." (p. 497-510), dated at end Antuerpiæ X. Cal. Aug. Anno M. D. XIX. [22 July 1519]; "Epistola de morte D. Thomæ Mori & Episcopi Roffensis" [Ioannis Phischeri] "insignium uirorum in Anglia. G. Courinus Nucerinus ..." (p. 511-530), dated at end: Apud Lutetiam Parisiorum, X. Cal. Augusti, Anno M. D. XXXV [22 July 1535]., This edition of Utopia includes the letters of Desiderius Erasmus to Johannes Froben, Guillaume Budé to Thomas Lupset, Pierre Gillis to Jerome Busleyden, Thomas More to Pierre Gillis and Jerome Busleyden to Thomas More. It also includes the annotations by Desiderius Erasmus., and Title vignette: Printer's device, signed: Episcop.
Publisher:
apud Episcopium F.,
Subject (Name):
Birukov, N. N.--Bookplate., Birukov, N. N.--Stamp., Courinus Nucerinus, Gulielmus, Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536., Fisher, John,--Saint,--1469-1535., More, Thomas, Saint, 1478-1535. Utopia., and More, Thomas,--Saint,--1478-1535.
