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Autograph and print album of European scholars

Isaac GrüterPolycarp LeyserBartholomäus Reusner

出版	1603
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ONtuzgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Autograph and print album, or liber amicorum, possibly compiled by a student at the University of Wittenberg beginning in 1603, comprised primarily of engraved portraits by Johann Azelt cut from Paul Freher's Theatrum virorum eruditione clarorum (Noribergae : Impensis Johannis Hofmanni, & typis haeredum Andreae Knorzii, 1688). The opening leaf of the volume includes a pencil and ink drawing of a haloed woman holding a cross draped with a wreath with the sun--decorated with metallic flecks--shining above her, inside of which is the motto "Soli Deo gloria". Includes seven autographs and inscriptions, all but one of which have been cut and pasted into the volume. Among the signatures are "Polycarpus Leyserus" (presumably theologican Polycarp Leyser the Elder, who taught at the University of Wittenberg), dated 28 May 1603; "Sum Isaaci Gruteri ..." (presumably Dutch humanist Isaac Grüter), dated 18 August 1628; "Histerman von Zihllborgh" (the only autograph directly inscribed in the volume), dated 15 September 1664; "Barthol. Reusnerus" (presumably legal scholar Bartholomäus Reusner, who taught at the University of Wittenberg), and "Daniel Menius", dated 8 March 1603. Most leaves in the volume contain a portrait cut from Freher's Theatrum with a caption added in manuscript underneath. The portraits depict European theologians, scholars, and humanists, including Philip Melanchthon, Martin Luther, John Calvin, William Tyndale, John Foxe, Francis Xavier, Jan Hus, John Wycliffe, Thomas à Kempis, and Ulrich Zwingli. The last several pages of the volume include a handwritten index to the portraits and space for an index to the autographs that has been left blank. Considering the large gap in time between the first inscriptions in 1603 and the prints of 1688, it is possible that a student began the album in 1603 and incorporated the prints later in life. Or it is possible that the owner started with the prints and acquired the autographs later, since almost all of the autographs have been trimmed and pasted into the volume.