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WRITINGS NOT RELATED TO MINING, INCLUDING LOST OR UNPUBLISHED 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 title 

 to which is Georgii Agricolae Glaucii Lihellus de prima ac simplici instituiione grammatica. 

 Excusum Lipsiae in Officina Melchioris Loitheri. Anno mdxx. (4to), 24 folios.^* There is 

 some reason to believe that Agricoia also published a Greek grammar, for there is a letter** 

 from Agricoia dated March i8th, 1522, in which Henicus Camitianus is requested to send a 

 copy to Stephan Roth. 



Theological Tracts. There are preserved in the Zwickau Rathsschul Library*' copies 

 by Stephan Roth of two tracts, the one entitled, Deum non esse auctorem Peccati, the 

 other, Religioso patri Petri Fontano, sacre theologie Doctori eximio Georgius Agricoia salutem 

 dicit in Christo. The former was written from Leipzig in 1522, and the latter, although 

 not dated, is assigned to the same period. Both are printed in Zwei theologische Abhandlungen 

 des Georg Agricoia, an article by Otto Clemen, Neuen Archiv fiir Sdchsische Geschichte, etc., 

 Dresden, iqoo. There is some reason (from a letter of Fabricius to Melanchthon, Dec. 8th, 

 1555) to believe that Agricoia had completed a work on the unwritten traditions concerning 

 the Church. There is no further trace of it. 



Galen. Agricoia 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 prefatory 

 letter to Opizo by Asulanus. 



De Bello adversus Turcam. This political tract, directed against the Turks, was written in 

 Latin and first printed by Froben, Basel, 1528. It was translated into German apparently 

 by Agricola's friend Laurenz Berman, and published under the title Oration Anrede Und 

 Vormanunge .... widder den Turcken by Frederich Peypus, Nuremberg, in 153 1 

 (8vo), and either in 1530 or 1531 by Wolfgang Stockel, Dresden, 4to. It was again printed 

 in Latin by Froben, Basel, 1538, 4to ; by H. Grosius, Leipzig, 1594, 8vo ; it was included 

 among other works published on the same subject by Nicholas Reusnerus, Leipzig, 1595 ; 

 by Michael Lantzenberger, Frankfurt-am-Main, 1597, 4to. Further, there is reference by 

 Watt to an edition at Eisleben, 1603, of which we have no confirmation. There is another 

 work on the subject, or a revision by the author mentioned by Albinus** as having been, 

 after Agricola's death, sent to Froben by George Fabricius to be printed ; nothing further 

 appears 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 in 

 1614, under various editors. It would appear from Albinus*' that the work was revised by 

 Agricoia and in Froben's hands for publication after the author's death. 



De Medicatis Fontibus. This work is referred to by Agricoia himself in De Natura 

 Eorum*^ in the prefatory letter in De Veteribus et Novis Metallis ; and Albinus" quotes a 

 letter of Agricoia to Sebastian Munster on the subject. Albinus states (Bergchronik, p. 193) 

 that to his knowledge it had not yet been pubUshed. Conrad Gesner, in his work Excerp- 

 torum et observationum de Thermis, which is reprinted in De Balneis, Venice, 1553, after 

 Agricola's De Natura Eorum, states ** concerning Agricoia in libris quos de medicatis fontibus 

 instituerit 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. We 

 are unable to state whether it was ever printed or not. A note of inquiry to the principal 

 libraries in Germany gave a negative result. 



De Putredine solidas partes humani corporis corrumpente. This work, according to 

 Albinus was received by Fabricius a year after Agricola's death, but whether it was pubhshed 

 or not is uncertain.** 



Castigationes in Hippocratem et Galenum. This work is referred to by Agricoia in the 

 preface of Bermannus, and Albinus*' mentions several letters referring to the preparation 

 of the work. There is no evidence of publication. 



Typographia Mysnae et Toringiae. It seems from Agricola's letter** to Munster that 

 Agricoia prepared some sort of a work on the history of Saxony and of the Royal Family 



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

 *'In the Rathsschul Library at Zwickau. 



^'Contained in Vols, xxxvii. and XL. of Stephan Roth's Kollectanenbdnde Volumes 

 of Transcripts. 



^'Landchronik, p. 354. 



*°0p. cit., p. 354. 



**Book IV. 



**0p. cit.. p. 355. 



**Page 291. 



**See Baumgarten-Crusius, p T14, letter from Georg Fabricius. 



*sOp. cit., p. 354. 



"Albinus, Op. cit., p. 355. 



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