Album amicorum of Johann Ulrich Höcklin [manuscript], 1564-1574.
Höcklin von Steineck, Johann Ulrich, 1547-1586, author.; Sebisch, Melchior, 1539-1625, signer.; Platter, Felix, 1536-1614, signer.; Pflug, Julius von, 1499-1564, signer.; Otto, Georg, 1544-1618, signer.; Varnbüler, Nicolaus, 1519-1604, signer.; Grynaeus, Johann Jacob, 1540-1617, signer.; Friedrich I, Duke of Württemberg, 1557-1608, signer.
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Album amicorum of Johann Ulrich Höcklin [manuscript], 1564-1574.
Description
1 v. : ill. (some col.), col. coats of arms
Associated name
Höcklin von Steineck, Johann Ulrich, 1547-1586, author.
Sebisch, Melchior, 1539-1625, signer.
Platter, Felix, 1536-1614, signer.
Pflug, Julius von, 1499-1564, signer.
Otto, Georg, 1544-1618, signer.
Varnbüler, Nicolaus, 1519-1604, signer.
Grynaeus, Johann Jacob, 1540-1617, signer.
Friedrich I, Duke of Württemberg, 1557-1608, signer.
Sebisch, Melchior, 1539-1625, signer.
Platter, Felix, 1536-1614, signer.
Pflug, Julius von, 1499-1564, signer.
Otto, Georg, 1544-1618, signer.
Varnbüler, Nicolaus, 1519-1604, signer.
Grynaeus, Johann Jacob, 1540-1617, signer.
Friedrich I, Duke of Württemberg, 1557-1608, signer.
Summary
Many entries, often accompanied with coats-of-arms, were written at Tübingen, suggesting that the contributors may have been fellow students and occasionally teachers of Johannes Huldericus (or, Udalricus) Höcklin von (or, à) Steineck who matriculated at the University there, April 17, 1564. Other entries were made at Dola, Besançon and Paris. Among the contributors are Friedrich I, duke of Würtemberg, Melchior Sebisch, Felix Platter, Julius Pflug, Georg Otto, Nicolaus Varnbüler, and Johann Jacob Grynaeus. Printed illustrations, some colored in.
Language Note
Text in German, Latin and Greek.
Note
Entries written on the majority of the blank versos in Iohan. Posthii Germershemii Tetrasticha in Ovidii Metamor. Lib-XV...1563.
Index of names at end and beginning of volume.
Initials of Höcklin stamped on the front cover, the date 1564 on the back cover.
Index of names at end and beginning of volume.
Initials of Höcklin stamped on the front cover, the date 1564 on the back cover.
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2006-2007. Technologies of Writing in the Age of Print.
Item Details
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Bd.w. 158- 133q
Folger accession
158133