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Iacobus Locher Philomusus
2021
Scheda bibliografica sull'umanista tedesco Iacob Locher (Iacobus Locher Philomusus), nato il 23/31-7-1471, morto il 4-12-1528, professore a Ingolstadt e a Friburgo Bibliographic sheet on the German humanist Iacob Locher (Iacobus Locher Philomusus), born on 23 / 31-7-1471, died on 4-12-1528, professor in Ingolstadt and in Friborg
Scripsi manu mea Hartmann Schedel in Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, clm 490
2014
The Padua-trained medical doctor Hartmann Schedel (1440–1514) of Nuremberg is today perhaps best known for his Liber Chronicarum, printed in Latin and German (Weltchronik) in 1493 with an ambitious programme of xylographies. Thanks to his well-spent study years in Padua (1463–1466), he also played an important role in the dissemination of Italian humanism north of the Alps, as witnessed, for example, by his important collection of inscriptions and Humanist texts. His rich library, consisting of manuscripts, both autographs and written by others, and printed books, was bought from his family by H. J. Fugger of Augsburg (1531–1598) in 1552. Fugger’s library was passed to the Bavarian Court Li…