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JOHANNES MAGNUS. (Historia Ioannis Magni gothi sedes apostolocae legati Svetiae et Gotiae primatis ac archiepiscopi Upsaliensis de omnibus Gothorum Sveonumque regibus qui unquam ab initio nationis extitere, eorúmque memorabilibus bellis late varieque per orbem gestis, opera Olai Magni gothi fratris eiusdem autoris ac etiam archiepiscopi Upsaliensis in lucem edita. Suscipiant montes pacem populo). Rome, Viotti, 1554.
Folio. 292 x 198 mm. (60, 2 blanka), 787, (3) pp. NB! Lacks the printed title, here substituded by a carefully drawn and calligraphed copy with brown ink. Woodcut illustrations and initials. Bound in boards clad in illuminated manuscript vellum (France, second half of 14th century), plain newer clothspine with title of brown leather. Minor stains. Underlinings and margin notes with old ink. Damp in margins, pp. 668-698 and 709-end. Larger stain on p. 755. Minor worming pp. 781-end. Owners'/readers' comments and notes on board insides and rear end leaf. Name on woodcut title: Nicol. Joan. Smal.
Collijn II:210-16.
First edition which was edited by the author's brother, Olaus Magnus.
This famous history was written in Venice in 1540, where the author was then living as a Catholic refugee - he had left Sweden in 1526. In it, the Gothic romantic conception of Sweden as the "vagina gentium", the idea of Jordanes, 6th century chronicler of the Goths, is developed in a history of Swedish kings both at home and abroad leading the migrating peoples. This conception was the leading ideology of Swedish patriotism in the 17th century, when the text was translated into Swedish (1620). (Sten G. Lindberg, Swedish Books 1280-1967, page 16.).
Skador: Se text.
Lacks the printed title, here substituded by a carefully drawn and calligraphed copy with brown ink. See description!