Epistole perutiles interlegendumq[ue] suaues fratris Johannis Carthusiensis ordinis ad quosdam studentes Pragenses de Hamburg
Publisher: Peter Drach
Published: 1490
Place of publication: Speyer
Language: lat
Number of pages: 124
Subjects: College students; Conduct of life; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Epistole perutiles interlegendumque suaves, fratris Johannis Carthusiensis ordinis ad quosdam studentes Pragenses de Hamburg
Work titles: Epistolae perutiles
Notes: Title from title page; imprint from ISTC.

Signatures: a-g⁸, h⁶. Final leaf blank.

Printed in a single column 36 lines and head line per page. Capital spaces with guide letters at head of each epistle.

One of the earliest printed items relating to university life. Moral letters addressed to his compatriots studying at the university in Prague.

First letter addresses "Ioahanni preposito ecclesie Osilien." The second letter "compatriotis de Hamburg ... Ioha[n]ni Baccalario in artib[us] fratriq[ue] eius S ... in studio Pragensi. G. quoq[ue] cognato suo atq[ue] w. in Hamburg ... degentibus." The third letter is addressed "Henrico Olemanen̄. acclesie northunen̄. canonico."

Gothic type.

Chancery quarto. Leaf a2v: 36 lines, plus headline; area of text: 141 (149) x 88 mm. Initial spaces, a few with guide-letters. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords.

Leaf [61a]: Epistole tres fratris Iohannis Carthusien[sis] ordinis ad quosdam studentes Pragenses de Hamburg. Finiunt feliciter.

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