Iohannes Trithemius (Iohann Trittheim, 1462-1516), abbot of Spannheim, Catalogus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum ... Printed at Cologne by Peter Quentell, 1531.

The first edition of this famous bibliographical work was printed in 1494.  It is an index of Christian Latin authors, in alphabetical order, each entry supplying brief biographical details and a list of the author’s writings.  It is still an important reference tool for the many medieval German authors it lists.

Cent Rare Z 7783. A2 T7 1531.  At the head of the first leaf, cropped by the binder, is an early ownership inscription: ‘Libellus Friscisci Fusci ?Gr. in  Oberndorff pastor’ (‘The book of ?Fritz Fuchs, pastor of Oberndorff’).  Unfortunately there are four places named Oberndorf in Germany and another four in Austria.  Owned by the Jesuit College at Worms in 1767.  Bought in Munich in 1932 by Richard W. Hunt, Keeper of Western Manuscripts at the Bodleian Library, Oxford; acquired by the University of Tasmania from his estate in 1982.