UNIVERSITY PRIVILEGES

[University of Rostock:] [Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor:] Ferdinandi Imperatoris confirmatio, academiae Rostochiensis. Rostochii [Rostock], typis excripsit Joachimus Pedanus 1620.

The privileges of the University of Rostock, confirmed by the Emperor Ferdinand I (1503-1564). The university can teach in theology, laws, arts, medicine and philosophy, can award degrees, and can confer the traditional dignities that come with a degree (a hat, a ring and a kiss). Doctors of Rostock can have the same dignities and privileges as doctors of Bologna, Siena, Padua, Pavia, Perugia, Paris and Leipzig, and other centres of study. And (underlined in this copy), the university has a full ordinary jurisdiction over its students (including the rights to punish, and order restitution), for both civil, and criminal matters!

This is a second edition; the work was printed previously in 1560.

Details

4to., pp. [8]. Woodcut fleur-de-lys to title-page, woodcut decoration and initial to its verso. Browning, else good, bound in modern brown paper wrappers.

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