Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1539

Contributor:

Camerarius, Joachim, 1500-1574 (addressee)

Name:

Gerbel, Nicolaus, approximately 1485-1560; Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Date:

1539

Description:

Letter written from Strasbourg to Joachim Camerarius, professor of Greek at the University of Tübingen, which accompanied a copy of Gerbel's edition in Greek of the Anabasis of Alexander by the Greek historian Arrian, published by R. Winter in Basel in 1539. A negative photograph of the letter and a transcription of the letter, signed Paul Langeard and dated 1963, are filed with the manuscript.

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Sold by Francis Roux-Devillas (Paris), 1963.

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Latin; Manuscripts, Renaissance; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

1 item (1 leaf)

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Jurist of Strasbourg, Hellenist, corrector for the presses of Schürer and Froben, and student and assistant of Erasmus.; In Latin.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Misc Mss Box 7 Folder 39

Collection:

Miscellaneous Manuscripts