Epistolarum familiarium libri VI. Nunc Primùm post ipsius obitum singulari studio à filiis editi

8vo. [8] leaves, 562 pp., 1 leaf (errata). Collation: (:)8, a-z8, A-L8, M10. With the printer's device on the title-page. Marbled boards, with the entry of ownership ‘inservio studijs Gerhardi Conradi. 1626' on the title-page and a handwritten alphabetical index of the main recipients at the end.
Index Aureliensis, 130.555; VD-16, C-413; F. Baron, ed., Joachim Camerarius (1500-1574). Beiträge zur Geschichte des Humanismus im Zeitalter der Reformation, (München, 1978), p. 250, no. 171; C.A. Staswick, Joachim Camerarius and the Republic of Letters in the Age of Reformation, (Diss., Berkeley, CA, 1992), pp. 299-301.
 
FIRST EDITION of an important part of Camerarius' correspondence published by his sons Joachim the Younger (1534-1598), physician and botanist, and Philip (1537-1624), professor of law at Altdorf.
The volume, which opens with a dedication to Joachim Ernest of Anhalt dated from Nuremberg, December 21, 1582, contains 446 letters. It is provided with an index of the over fifty recipients and an index of names appearing in the letters. A second volume, also published by Camerarius' sons, appeared at Frankfurt/Main in 1595.
The greatest number of letters (135) are addressed to the Reformer of Nürnberg, Hieronymus Baumgartner (1498-1565), who was also for a longer period major of that city (cf. E. van Hout, Zum Briefwechsel des älteren Hieronymus Baumgartner, Bonn 1877, passim).
Fifty-nine letters are addressed to Christoph von Carlowitz (1507-1578), a notable representative of that group of German politicians committed to the ideals of Erasmus. He was most influential under the Duke and Elector Maurice of Saxony and was also employed on many domestic assignments and foreign missions by the Elector Augustus of Saxony, as well as the emperors Ferdinand I and Maximilian II (cf. T. Woitkowitz, Die Briefe von Joachim Camerarius d. Ä. an Christoph von Karlowitz bis zum Jahr 1553, Stuttgart, 2003, passim, esp. pp. 27-32).
To Hieronymus Wolf (1516-1580) are addressed forty-two letters. Wolf was a teacher, an editor and translator of ancient Greek authors for the Basel printer Johannes Oporin, librarian to Hans Jakob Fugger and the city of Augsburg.
Georg Fabricius (1516-1571), poet, historian and archaeologist is the recipient of thirty-one letters, and the addressees of more than ten letters were the poet Helius Eobanus Hessus, Hieronymus Herold, a Nuremberg physician, Hermann von Neuenahr, humanist and chancellor of the University of Cologne, and Johannes Stigel, poet and professor of rhetoric at the University of Jena.
 
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Georg of Anhalt. Leipzig, March 17, 1545 (p. 1)
id. 1545 (p.5)
Joachim of Anhalt. Leipzig, March 16, n.y. (p. 6)
Bernard of Anhalt. Leipzig, March 22, n.y. (p. 8)
Ad Principem quendam (p. 9)
John Albert of Mecklenburg (p. 10)
id. April 30, n.y. (p. 12)
id. Leipzig, September 16, 1562 (p. 14)
id. March 11, n.y. (p. 16)
id. Leipzig, January 5, n.y. (p. 17)
id. (p. 18)
Neuenahr, Hermann von. Leipzig, March 1, n.y. (p. 19)
id. Leipzig, February 19, 1563 (p. 20)
id. Leipzig, May 11, 1563 (p. 21)
id. Leipzig, November 9, 1565 (p. 22)
id. Leipzig, February 13, 1566 (p. 23)
id. Leipzig, January 13, 1569 (p. 25)
id. January 13, 1570 (p. 26)
id. Leipzig, July 15, 1570 (p. 27)
id. Leipzig, October 9, 1571 (p. 28)
id. Leipzig, January 15, 1572 (p. 29)
id. Leipzig, July 12, 1573 (p. 30)
Ortenburg, Anton of. Leipzig, August 8, 1566 (p. 32)
id. Leipzig, September 1, 1567 (p. 33)
id. Leipzig, August 1, n.y. (p. 35)
Karlowitz, Christoph von. [Nürnberg], January 23, 1528 (p. 36)
id. [Leipzig], January 10, 1552 (p. 37)
id. [Leipzig, November/January, 1541/42] (p. 39, Non potui facere)
id. [Leipzig, October, 1542] (p. 41, Nam in summa laeticia)
id. [Leipzig], February 9, [1554] (p. 42)
id. Leipzig, April 18, [1555] (p. 46)
id. [Leipzig, October/November, 1549] (p. 47, Nisi mihi & humanistas)
id. [Leipzig, first half of June, 1553] (p. 51, Profectus nuper)
id. [Leipzig, before 1569] (p. 52, Cum nuper relictis