Johan Hess´ copy in a chained binding
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JOHANN HESS´ COPY IN A FINE CHAINED BINDING. PASCHASIUS, RADBERTUS. Pascasii Roberti Viri Doctissimi simul ac religiosissimi in Lamentationes Ieremiae prophetae: quae ut quinque capitibus continent, ita in quinque redegit libros, opus certe aureum, nunquam antehac uisum, nec typis excusum. Coloniae (Cologne, ex officina Eucharij) 1532.
8:o. (16), 1-333, (1) pp. Some woodcut initials, 1 woodcut illustration. Some worming with loss of a few letters. Signature of Joannis Hessi Nurembergen(sis) on title. BOUND WITH:
NAUSEA, FRIEDRICH. Friderici Nauseae Blancicampiani... in libru(m) Tobi(a)e Enarrationes, nunquam antehac typis excusae. Coloniae (Cologne, excudebat Iohannes Prael, impensis Petri Quentel) 1532.
8:o. (32) ll, pp. 17-288 (i.e. 287), (1 blank). 1 woodcut initial. Some minor worming. Pages 280 and to the end with small hole in upper margin and loss of a few letters. Contemporary annotation on title and a few contemporary marginal annotations.
Contemporary blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, a chain attached to the lower cover, somewhat worn, on upper board a coat-of-arms with the text "Arma Hessica 1525", remnants of an old paper label on upper board, on lower cover another coat-of-arms in black, brass clasps and fittings, spine in four compartments with defective label and paper label in upper compartment with number "959", the inner doublures somewhat damaged, last endpaper loose.
Provenance: Johann Hess (1490-1547), German Lutheran theologian and Protestant Reformer of Breslau (Wroclaw). Born in Nuremberg, he attended the universities of Leipzig and Wittenberg, where he became a follower of Martin Luther. In 1518 he moved to Bologna to study theology, completing his studies in 1519. On the way back to Silesia he stopped in Wittenberg and became a friend of Philipp Melanchton. In 1523 Hess become pastor of St. Maria Magdalena church in Breslau, and in the coming years the slowly introduced Protestant teachings there. In 1541 he took part in the Conference of Regensburg (Wikipedia).
Hess library was taken over by the dukes of Münsterberg in the castle Oels outside Breslau, and later included in the library of the dukes of Braunschweig, nowadays in the Landesbibliothek Dresden and strongly reduced during the Second World War (from annotations of Victor von Stedingk on a losely inserted paper).
Fine chained bindings are rather scarce. The chain indicates that the book was once owned by a (institutional) library, which kept this book attached to a shelf.
Auktionsnummer:
6032
Datum:
2016-12-20