APPENDIX A. 605

WRITINGS NOT RELATED TO MINING, INCLUDING LOST OR UNPUBLISHED

WORKS.

Latin Grammar. This was probably the first of Agricola’s publications, the full titleto which is Georgii Agricolae Glaucii Libellus de prima ac simplici institutione grammatica.Excusum Lipsiae in Officina Melchioris Lottheri. Anno mdxx. (4to), 24 folios. 16 There issome reason to believe that Agricola also published a Greek grammar, for there is a letter 17from Agricola dated March 18th, 1522, in which Henicus Camitianus is requested to send acopy to Stephan Roth.

Theological Tracts. There are preserved in the Zwickau Rathsschul Library 18 copiesby Stephan Roth of two tracts, the one entitled, Deum non esse auctorem Peccati, theother, Religioso patri Petri Fontano, sacre theologie Doctori eximio Georgius Agricola salutemdicit in Christo. The former was written from Leipzig in 1522, and the latter, althoughnot dated, is assigned to the same period. Both are printed in Zwei theologische Abhandlungendes Georg Agricola, an article by Otto Clemen, Neuen Archiv fur Sdchsische Geschichte, etc.,Dresden, 1900. There is some reason (from a letter of Fabricius to Melanchthon, Dec. 8th,I 555) to believe that Agricola had completed a work on the unwritten traditions concerningthe Church. There is no further trace of it.

Galen. Agricola appears to have been joint author with Andreas Asulanus and J. B.Opizo of a revision of this well-known Greek work. It was published at Venice in 1525,under the title of Galeni Librorum, etc., etc. Agricola’s name is mentioned in a prefatoryletter to Opizo by Asulanus.

De Bello adversus Turcam. This political tract, directed against the Turks, was written inLatin and first printed by Froben, Basel, 1528. It was translated into German apparentlyby Agricola’s friend Laurenz Berman, and published under the title Oration Anrede UndVormanunge .... widder den Tiircken by Frederich Peypus, Nuremberg, in 1531(8vo), and either in 1530 or 1531 by Wolfgang Stockel, Dresden, 4to. It was again printedin Latin by Froben, Basel, 1538, 4to ; by H. Grosius, Leipzig, 1594, 8vo; it was includedamong other works published on the same subject by Nicholas Reusnerus, Leipzig, 1595;by Michael Lantzenberger, Frankfurt-am-Main, 1597, 4to. Further, there is reference byWatt to an edition at Eisleben, 1603, of which we have no confirmation. There is anotherwork on the subject, or a revision by the author mentioned by Albinus 19 as having been,after Agricola’s death, sent to Froben by George Fabricius to be printed; nothing furtherappears in this matter however.

De Peste. This work on the Plague appears to have been first printed by Froben,Basel, 1554, 8vo. The work was republished at Schweinfurt, 1607, and at Augsburg in1614, under various editors. It would appear from Albinus 80 that the work was revised byAgricola and in Froben’s hands for publication after the author’s death.

De Medicatis Fontibus. This work is referred to by Agricola himself in De NaturaEorum , 21 in the prefatory letter in De Veteribus et Novis Metallis; and Albinus 22 quotes aletter of Agricola to Sebastian Munster on the subject. Albinus states ( Bergchronik , p. 193)that to his knowledge it had not yet been published. Conrad Gesner, in his work Excerp-torum et observationum de Thermis, which is reprinted in De Balneis, Venice, 1553, afterAgricola’s De Natura Eorum, states 28 concerning Agricola in libris quos de medicatis fontibusinstituerit copiosus se dicturum pollicetur. Watts mentions it as having been published in 1549,1561, 1614, and 1621. He, however, apparently confuses it with De Natura Eorum. Weare unable to state whether it was ever printed or not. A note of inquiry to the principallibraries in Germany gave a negative result.

De Putredine solidas partes humani corporis corrumpente. This work, according toAlbinus was received by Fabricius a year after Agricola’s death, but whether it was publishedor not is uncertain. 24

Castigationes in Hippocratem et Galenum. This work is referred to by Agricola in thepreface of Bermannus, and Albinus 25 mentions several letters referring to the preparationof the work. There is no evidence of publication.

Typographia Mysnae et Toringiae. It seems from Agricola’s letter 28 to Munster thatAgricola prepared some sort of a work on the history of Saxony and of the Royal Family

16 There is a copy of this work in the Rathsschul Library at Zwickau.

17 In the Rathsschul Library at Zwickau.

1 Contained in Vols. xxxvii. and XL. of Stephan Roth’s Kollectanenbdnde Volumesof Transcripts.

19 Landchronik, p. 354.

20 Op. cit., p. 354.

21 Book rv.

22 0p. cit., p. 355.

23 Page 201.

24 See Baumgarten-Crusius, p. ri4, letter from Georg Fabricius.

25 0p. cit,, p. 354.

36 A]binus, Op. cit, p. 355.

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