ERASMUS. [with] ERASMUS. [with] SOLINUS. [and] WILDENBERG, Hyeronimus.

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Very good, unsophisticated copies of four works, in three scarce and one incunabular edition, extensively annotated by students from the time of the Reformation and for a few decades. The binding decoration points to southern Germany, and the latest recorded owner, Hannibal Schmid von Wellenstein (1601-73) was Prince of Füssen, in Bavaria, the state where this sammelband appears to have remained at least until the C19. A marginal gloss says 1528 post pascha , i.e., 1528 Second Sunday after Easter. . Pupils in early modern Germany were under no formal obligation to stay at one school and follow a particular programme of study through from beginning to end, [...] pupils picked and chose from the offer of early modern schools. Apart from the differences in tuition apparent from curricula, the textbooks used also differed widely from one school to the next, allowing teachers to employ quite different teaching methods. This was even more so the case as far as private tuition was concerned (often taught by the schoolteachers themselves and without which it was very difficult at some institutions to pass the end-of-year exam) (Ross, pp. 316, 328). The present copy may have been a Latin (or grammar) school library s copy, used by different students in the course of several decades; or it may have been in the library of the Princes of Füssen - which would explain the sudden presence of a Venetian incunable among cheap student editions - and used by generations of Wellenstein boys un

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