Intsitutio [sic] principis Christiani
Subtitle: saluberrimis referta praeceptis
By: p[er] Erasmum Roterodamum, ab eodem recognita cu[m] alijs non[n]ullis eode[m] p[er]tine[n]tibus, quoru[m] catalogu[m] in p[ro]xima reperies pagella.
Contributors: Isocrates; Plutarch
Publisher: [Ioannes Frobenius
Published: 1519
Place of publication: Apud inclytam Basileam
Language: lat
Number of pages: 402
Subjects: Plutarch.; Education of princes -- Early works to 1800.; Kings and rulers -- Duties -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Institutio principis Christiani; Intsitvtio principis Christiani; Institvtio principis Christiani; Erasmi Institutio principis Christiani, et alia
Work titles: Institutio principis Christiani
Notes: Collation: 4to: a-z⁴ A-2C⁴ 2D⁶ [$3 (-a1; +2D4) signed (missigning 2C3 as 2A3)]; 202 leaves: p. [1] 2-402 [2 blank]

Printer named at head of list of contents on p. 2.

Date taken from Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the Continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in the Cambridge libraries.

Title within an archectonic border.

Border on the first page of the text; woodcut iitial.

Head-pieces; initials.

"Quo pacto posses adulatorem ab amico dignoscere" of Plutarch, with Erasmus commentary, p. 300-363.

"Quo pacto quis efficiat ut ex iminicis capiat utilitatem, Plutarchi Chaeronensis, Erasmo Roterodamo interprete": p. 366-383.

"In principe requiri doctrinam, Plutarchi commentarium, Erasmo Roterodamo interprete": p. 384-392. First leaf on text within an ornamental border.

Cum principibus maxime philosophum debere disputare, Plutarchi, Erasmo Roterodamo interprete": p. 393-402. First page within an ornamental border.

Printer's device incorporated into the title border; verso of the final leaf.

Colophon: Basileae apud Ioannem Frobenium mense Iunio. an. M. D. XIX.

Printed marginal notations.

In about 1516 Erasmus was appointed to a counseller's position in the Royal household of Emperor Charles V.

Adams, E382.

Burns Library copy damaged: boards almost completely detached; t.p. partly connected to endpaper.

Burns Library copy has note written in Spanish on p. 402 by Fr.[?] Ioan. De Arieta, dated 1586, stating that he made corrections to the text. Text on p. 57-59, 110-111, 139-140, 143-144, 251 scratched out in pen and replaced with handwritten text in margins; underlining throughout.

c.1: 01-29889.
Table of contents: value: "Ioannes Frobenius typographus ... tradit haec: Epistolam Erasmi ad magnificum D. Cancellarium Burgondiae; value: Praefationem ... Erasmi Roterodami; value: Institutionem boni & Christiani principis ... / Erasmo autore; value: Praecepta Isocratis de regno administra[n]do ad Nicoclem regem, eodem interprete; value: Panegyricum gratulatorium de felicis ex Hispania reditu, ad illustrissimum Principem Philippum Maximiliani filium, eodem autore; value: Libellum Plutarch de discrimine adulatoris & amici : ad serenissimum Henricum eius nominis octauu[m] Angliae regem, cum alijs nonullis."