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Henrich Gottleib Titz Writes about the Theuerdanck: Probably the First Monograph on a Single Rare Book

1719

In 1719 Heinrich Gottleib Titz as respondent and author, supervised by German historian Johann David Köhler at Universität Altdorf, published a thesis in Altdorf bei Nürnberg entitled Disquisitio de inclyto libro poetico Theuerdanck. This dissertation may be the first monograph on a single rare book, in this case the Theuerdanck of 1517.

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