Epistolae obscurorum virorum
Subtitle: Briefe der Dunkelmänner : lateinischer Text nach den editionen von 1710 & 1869 : deutscher Text nach W. Binder
By: herausgegeben von Anton F.W. Sommer
Contributors: Gratius, Ortuinus, -1542; Binder, W. (Wilhelm), 1810-1876; Crotus Rubianus, approximately 1480-1539, supposed author; Hutten, Ulrich von, 1488-1523, supposed author; Busche, Hermann von dem, approximately 1468-1534, supposed author
Edition: 1. Aufl.
Series: Editiones neolatinae -- v. 16; Editiones neolatinae -- Bd. 16
Publisher: Eigenverlag Sommer
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Wien
Language: lat; ger
Translated from: ger
Number of pages: 616
Other titles: Briefe der Dunkelmänner; Briefe von Dunkelmännern
Work titles: Epistolae obscurorum virorum German & Latin
Description: Authorship of the Epistolae, written to Ortuinus Gratius, was formerly attributed to Reuchlin, Erasmus, Hutten and others. More recent research has made it almost certain that Crotus Rubeanus and Ulrich von Hutten were the principal contributors.

To Crotus are credited the first 41 letters; to Hutten the 7 letters added later to the original series and most of the 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.
Notes: Photographic facsims. of the 1710 and 1869 Latin eds., with the 1898 German translation by Wilhelm Binder, facing on opposite pages.