Academiarum universi terrarum orbis libri tres, nunc recens locupletati & recogniti LM-268

Author: Middendorp Jacob, 1537 - 1611

Title : Academiarum universi terrarum orbis libri tres, nunc recens locupletati & recogniti. 

Published: Cologne, Maternum Cholinum, 1583.

Format:  (22),+ (2, blanks),+ 634,+ (20) pp.

Binding: Contemporary vellum, red edges, rear edge with a letter R in ink. Title in fine ink lettering on spine. From the library of Ericsberg, with the book plate of Carl Jedvard Bonde.

Adams M1415. Second, revised and enlarged edition of this work concerning libraries, universities and other learned institutions in Italy, Germany, Poland, Spain, England and other European countries. It was first published in 1567. The first two parts is a history of the ancient universities and the third part (pp. 219-634) is a presentation of  the present. Jakob Middendorp (Jacobus Middendorpius) (c.1537-1611) was a Dutch Catholic theologian and churchman, academic and historian. There is a mention of a Petrus Roirius from Lithuania at the university at Cracow.