Scope and Contents: Full Title: Bericht von der didactica oder Lehrkunst [manuscript] / Wolfgangi Ratichii. Newe Zeittung, wie dass seinen Teutschen ... / Hans Zeidler. Iohan Apiari[i] Breaslaviensis Modus magisterii liberalis. Ratio vicit, vetustas cessit, allgemeine Sprachlehr nach der / Lehrart Ratichii. Trewhertzige Verhrmahnung, an die Bürgermeister und Rahtherrn aller Städte Deutsches Landes ... / Mart. Luth. Doct.
Six pen-facsimiles of books printed in Germany, 1614-1621; Latin text from Zeidler's "Modus magisterii liberalis" is transcribed twice, possibly from variant settings with same title-page; "Trewhertzige Verhrmahnung" has transcription of only the title-leaf, p. 40-49, and 4 leaves at end.
Mss. (transcripts, handwritten).
Title from individual pen-facsimile title-pages.
Iohan Apiarii Breaslaviensis = Johann Zeidler.
Source texts: Bericht von der didactica. Jena: Rauchmaul, 1614 [VD 17 (online) 1:044665X] -- Newe Zeittung. [S.l.: s.n.], 1616 [VD 17 (online) 23:688382Q] -- Modus magisterii liberalis. [S.l.: s.n.], 1617 (VD 17 (online) 1:049338F] -- Grammatica universalis. Kthen: [Frstliche Druckerei], 1619 [VD 17 (online) 1:077988X] -- Trewhertzige Verhrmahnung. Magdeburg: Pohl, 1621 [VD 17 (online) 23:272995P].
"Ratio vicit, vetustas cessit" has facsimile of original title-page pasted to pen-facsimile title-page.
Binding: Half vellum over paste-paper-covered boards.
Origin: "Bericht von der didactica" signed and dated: "R. Aron. 14. Juni 1892"; "Modus magisterii liberalis" signed and dated: "9. 2. 1892. 6h ab. R. Aron"; "Ratio vicit, vetustas cessit" signed and dated: "16. Mai 1892. 5h nachm. R. Aron"; "Trewhertzige Verhrmahnung" signed and dated: "R. Aron. 20. Juni 1892"; shelf-marks of source copies variously attributed to libraries in Berlin and Breslau.
Acquired from Aron Library, 1913.
Former shelf-mark: RBR 85 17 (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library).
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