Letters of obscure men
By: [Attributed to] Ulrich von Hutten, and others. Translated by Francis Griffin Stokes. Introd. by Hajo Holborn.
Contributors: Stokes, Francis Griffin.; Crotus Rubeanus, Johannes, ca. 1480-ca. 1539.; Hutten, Ulrich von, 1488-1523.; Busche, Hermann von dem, ca. 1468-1534.
Series: Pennsylvania paperback, 50
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1972
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng; lat
Number of pages: 262
Work titles: Epistolae obscurorum virorum. English.
Notes: Reprint of the 1909 ed., published under title: On the eve of the Reformation; this ed. omits the Latin text and the 1909 pref. and introd.

Authorship of the Epistolae formerly attributed to Reuchlin, Erasmus, Hutten and others. More recent researches have made it almost certain that Crotus Rubeanus and Ulrich von Hutten were the main contributors. To Crotus are credited the first 41 letters; to Hutten the 7 letters added later to the original series and most of the 62 letters of the second series, with the possible co-operation of a third person, Hermann von dem Busche. The authorship of the rest remains doubtful.