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According to the testimony of Schellhorn Johann Georg Schelhorn (1694–1773), a German theologian and noted bibliographer who documented rare books., originally it belonged to the Hohendorf library The collection of Baron Georg Wilhelm von Hohendorf (c. 1670–1719), a celebrated book collector and diplomat., but ours reached the Imperial Library in Vienna.
According to Vogt Johannes Vogt (1695–1764), author of a famous catalog of rare books, the "Catalogus Historico-Criticus Librorum Rariorum." it is also preserved in the Mencke, Uffenbach, Krafft, and Schalbruch libraries, as well as the Academy of Wittenberg; finally, it is also found in the Mosheim and Lilienthal libraries of Königsberg original: "Regis montium" — Latin for "King's Mountain," the city of Königsberg, now Kaliningrad..
This famous book was printed by the printer Oporinus Johannes Oporinus (1507–1568) was a major humanist printer in Basel known for publishing high-quality scholarship and controversial Reformation texts.. See Schellhorn’s Literary Delights original: "amœn: [amœnitates]" — Referring to Schelhorn’s multi-volume work Amoenitates Literariae., page 1106.
The author was Celio Secondo Curione An Italian humanist and Protestant reformer who fled to Switzerland to escape the Inquisition; he was a frequent collaborator with the printer Oporinus.. See David Clément David Clément (1701–1760), a French bibliographer and author of the "Bibliothèque curieuse historique et critique.", volume 7, page 369 and following. "The History of Celio Secondo Curione and his Family" is found in Schellhorn’s Literary Delights, Volume 14, pages 325–402.