Duo volumina epistolarum obscurorum virorum
Subtitle: ad Dominum M. Ortuinum Gratium, attico lepôre referta, denuò excusa, & à mendis repurgata : quibus ob stili et argumenti similitudinem adiecimus in calce dialogum mirè festiuum, eruditis salibus refertum
Contributors: Hutten, Ulrich von, 1488-1523; Busche, Hermann von dem, approximately 1468-1534; Spies, Johann, approximately 1540-1623, printer; Feyerabend, Sigmund, 1528-1590, publisher
Publisher: [Apud Ioannem Spies ; Impensis Sigismundi Feyerabenij]
Published: 1581
Place of publication: Francoforti ad Moenum
Language: lat
Number of pages: 392
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Intellectual life; Medieval and modern Latin letters
Other titles: Dvo volvmina epistolarvm obscurorvm virorvm
Work titles: Epistolae obscurorum virorum
Notes: Signatures: 1: A-2A⁸ 2B⁴.

Half title page, sig. K7r: Alterum volumen Epistolarum obscurorum virorum ...

Half title page, sig. Z4r: Conciliabulum theologistarum adversus Germaniae, & bonarum literarum studiosos ...

Caption titles, sigs 2A2r and 2A8r: Huttenus captivus and Huttenus illustris.

Colophon, sig. 2B3r: Romae stampato con priuilegio del pap, & confirmato in lugo, qui vulgò dicitur, Bel vedere. According to the Bibliothèque Nationale, this imprint is fake.

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 1st 41 letters; to Hutten the 7 letters added later to the original series and most of the 62 letters of the 2d series, with the possible co-operation of a third person, Hermann von dem Busche. The authorship of the rest remains doubtful.

Rare Book copy: Bound in two volumes, v.1: signatures A-Y⁸, Z³ [358] p.; v.2: Z⁴-Z⁸, 2A⁸, 2B⁴ [34] p. Also bound with v.2: De generibus ebriosorum, et ebrietate vitanda, but only from De fide concubinarum in sacerdotes (sig. H-I⁸, K⁴).

Issued with: De generibus ebriosorum, et ebrietate vitanda. Francoforti ad Moenum: [Apud Ioannem Spies; Impensis Sigismundi Feyerabenij], 1581.

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