(DUSBURG [Duisburg] [De] Petrus), Petri De Dusburg, Ordinis Teutonici Sacerdotis, Chronicon Prussiae,

Petri De Dusburg, Ordinis Teutonici Sacerdotis, Chronicon Prussiae,

in quo Ordinis Teutonici Origo, nec non Res ab ejusdem Ordinis Magistris ab An. MCCXXVI. usque ad An. MCCCXXVI in Prussia gestae exponuntur cum incerti Auctoris Continuatione usque ad Annum MCCCCXXXV. Accesserunt his praeter Notas in Dusburgensem Privilegia Qvaedam Prussis antiquitůs concessa, Item Dissertationes XIX. Antiqvitates Prussicas complexae. Auctore et Collectore Christophoro Hartknoch Passenheim. Prusso. (Frankfurt, Lips and Jena 1679). Francofurti et Lipsiae, Sumtibus Martini Hallervordii, Bibl. Regiom. Prusss. Jenae, Typis Johannis Nisi Anno MDCLXXIX.
- On the copperplate frontispiece a different title:] Petri de Düsburg Ordinis Teutonici Sacerdotis Chronicon Prussiae, cum Anonymi cujusdam Continuatione, alijsq; Antiquitatibus Prussicis. Christoph Hartknoch a Mss. Codicibus recensuit Notisq. illustravit. Francofurti & Lipsiae Sumptibus Martini Hallervordi Bibliop. Königsb. Ao. 1679 [Below portrait: Christianus Primus Episcopus Prussiae. On the sides Magister Ordi: Teuton. and Sacerdos Ord: Teutonici. Below the engraving signature: H. Sartorius Sculp. Norimb. 1679]. (20 x 16 cm), p. [11], p. 484, p. [17], frontispiece and 2 copperplate engravings (1 map, size: 30 x 36 cm and 1 plate of coats of arms, size: 32.5 x 39.5 cm); [Part II p. t.:] Selectae Dissertationes historicae de Variis Rebus Prussicis. Operâ & studio Christophori Hartknoch. Anno MDCLXXIX. (1679): p. 456, f. [23], 4 copperplate typesetting on separate plate, co-opr., period leather binding.
(Estr. T. 15). Dedication: "Burgrabio Regio, ... Reipubl. Thoruniensis...". The offered chronicle of Prussia published by Hartknoch, translated by Nikolai Jeroschin, authored by Peter Dusburg, who lived at the turn of the 13th and 14th centuries (d. m. 1326 and 1330), is the most important source for the history of the Teutonic Order in Prussia. Dusburg ends his chronicle in 1326. "He describes in the greatest detail the things drawing down to Königsberg, above all he praises the commanders and knights.... Many of the incidents he describes, he was an eyewitness, .... Nevertheless, he used the monastery archives. His sole purpose was to describe the coming of the Teutonic Knights to Prussia, and their wars and actions there for the faith and the church" (Orgelbrand). Traces of non-yellowing and stains, probably missing 1 copperplate (numismatic table), copy a little trimmed. Binding: brown leather with richly decorated and gilded spine, covers in gilded fine frame. Binding with rubbing and scuffs. The edges of the pages stained. Title page in red and black. Very scarce. 1494.