Owners of Incunabula

owners/00013910 Froben, Heinrich

Protzer, Johannes

Owner Id00013910
TypePerson
GenderMale
Biographical dates - Period of existence - 1528
Other Informationof Nuremberg; born c.1460/70, studied law in Ingolstadt (matriculated on 9 Nov. 1487), then was in Italy between 1490 and 1497. He left 290 volumes (75 of which purchased in Italy while he was a student 1490-97) to the Hospital in Nordlingen, where most of the law books can still be found; a booklist in his hand was published in 1921; see Georg Andreas Will, Nürnbergisches Gelehrten-Lexicon, III (Nuremberg and Altdorf, 1757), 250, and VII (1806), 213; Dennis E. Rhodes, `A Fifteenth-century German Book Collector in Italy: Johann Protzer', in Hellinga Festschrift/ Feestbundel/ Mélanges, ed. A. R. A. Croiset van Uchelen (Amsterdam, 1980), 435-9; Bettina Wagner, 'Nürnberger Büchersammler um 1500. Inkunabeln aus dem Besitz von Christoph Scheurl und einigen seiner Zeitgenossen in Oxforder Bibliotheken', Mitteilungen des Vereins für Geschichte der Stadt Nürnberg 82 (1995), S. 69-87, at 85-6; Albrecht Schmidt, `Die Bibliotheken der Stadt Nördlingen', Zeitschrift des Historischen Vereins für Schwaben und Neuburg, 47 (1927), 106-78; Peter Amelung, `Nochmals zur Bibliothek Protzers', Gb Jb (1981), 277-83; Anthony Hobson, `A German Student in Italy: his Books and Bindings', in Mélanges d'histoire de la reliure offerts à Georges Colin, ed. Claude Sorgeloos (Brussels, 1998), 87-99; Protzer bequeathed his books to three libraries in his home town of Nördlingen, the majority, including 101 volumes of Roman law, to the Ratsbibliothek; the rest to the Church of St George; the humanities books were sold in 1859 and are today scattered around Europe and the US; the hasp-mark indicates that the library was a chained one.
Joseph Dane, 'Additional incunables of Johannes Protzer in the Huntington Library, PBSA, 25,3 (2001), 349-53: copies at Princeton, Folger, Library of Congress (2), and Huntington (3).
See also https://blogs.princeton.edu/notabilia/tag/protzer/
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http://thesaurus.cerl.org/record/cnp01223757

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End (year)1528
MARC Area Codee-gx
PlaceNuremberg (Geonames Id: 2861650)

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Start (year)1490
End (year)1497
MARC Area Codee-it
Last Edit2024-10-29 15:42:14

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Protzer, Johannes

Owner Id00013910
TypePerson
GenderMale
Biographical dates - Period of existence - 1528
Other Informationof Nuremberg; born c.1460/70, studied law in Ingolstadt (matriculated on 9 Nov. 1487), then was in Italy between 1490 and 1497. He left 290 volumes (75 of which purchased in Italy while he was a student 1490-97) to the Hospital in Nordlingen, where most of the law books can still be found; a booklist in his hand was published in 1921; see Georg Andreas Will, Nürnbergisches Gelehrten-Lexicon, III (Nuremberg and Altdorf, 1757), 250, and VII (1806), 213; Dennis E. Rhodes, `A Fifteenth-century German Book Collector in Italy: Johann Protzer', in Hellinga Festschrift/ Feestbundel/ Mélanges, ed. A. R. A. Croiset van Uchelen (Amsterdam, 1980), 435-9; Bettina Wagner, 'Nürnberger Büchersammler um 1500. Inkunabeln aus dem Besitz von Christoph Scheurl und einigen seiner Zeitgenossen in Oxforder Bibliotheken', Mitteilungen des Vereins für Geschichte der Stadt Nürnberg 82 (1995), S. 69-87, at 85-6; Albrecht Schmidt, `Die Bibliotheken der Stadt Nördlingen', Zeitschrift des Historischen Vereins für Schwaben und Neuburg, 47 (1927), 106-78; Peter Amelung, `Nochmals zur Bibliothek Protzers', Gb Jb (1981), 277-83; Anthony Hobson, `A German Student in Italy: his Books and Bindings', in Mélanges d'histoire de la reliure offerts à Georges Colin, ed. Claude Sorgeloos (Brussels, 1998), 87-99; Protzer bequeathed his books to three libraries in his home town of Nördlingen, the majority, including 101 volumes of Roman law, to the Ratsbibliothek; the rest to the Church of St George; the humanities books were sold in 1859 and are today scattered around Europe and the US; the hasp-mark indicates that the library was a chained one.
Joseph Dane, 'Additional incunables of Johannes Protzer in the Huntington Library, PBSA, 25,3 (2001), 349-53: copies at Princeton, Folger, Library of Congress (2), and Huntington (3).
See also https://blogs.princeton.edu/notabilia/tag/protzer/
Other Identifierhttps://aeolus.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/collections/incunables/provenances_for_mei.xml#xpointer(//*[@id=
http://thesaurus.cerl.org/record/cnp01223757

Activity

End (year)1528
MARC Area Codee-gx
PlaceNuremberg (Geonames Id: 2861650)

Activity

Start (year)1490
End (year)1497
MARC Area Codee-it
Last Edit2024-10-29 15:42:14
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