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Auction archive: Lot number 25

SACHS, Hans (1494-1576) Eyn wunderliche Weyssagung von dem ...

Estimate
US$10,000 - US$15,000
Price realised:
US$22,500
Auction archive: Lot number 25

SACHS, Hans (1494-1576) Eyn wunderliche Weyssagung von dem ...

Estimate
US$10,000 - US$15,000
Price realised:
US$22,500
Beschreibung:

SACHS, Hans (1494-1576). Eyn wunderliche Weyssagung von dem Babstumb . Edited by Andreas Osiander. Nuremberg: Hans Guldemundt, 1527.
SACHS, Hans (1494-1576). Eyn wunderliche Weyssagung von dem Babstumb . Edited by Andreas Osiander. Nuremberg: Hans Guldemundt, 1527. 4 o (199 x 144 mm). Gothic type. Collation: A-C 4 D 2 E 4 . 18 leaves. 30 woodcuts by Erhard Schoen, ALL COLORED IN A CONTEMPORARY HAND. (Some very minor dampstains.) 19th-century morocco gilt with arms and cipher on sides. Provenance : John Eliot Hodkin (binding and bookplate; his sale, Sotheby's, 12 May 1914, lot 1359) -- Acquired from Goodspeed's Book Shop, 1969. EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION, WOODCUTS WITH CONTEMPORARY SOUTH-GERMAN COLORING. The German Meistersinger, poet, dramatist and cobbler, Hans Sachs was an admirer of Luther, and one of the first and most committed adherents of the Reformation in Nuremberg. In 1524 he published Vier Dialogen in Prosa , or, the disputations between a canon and a shoemaker, an attack on the outward works and vows of the clergy, as well as two warnings to the Lutherans themselves against unseemly conduct and abuse of their freedom. In 1527, a sensation was created with the publication of Eyn wunderliche Weyssagung von dem Babstumb ("A Wondrous Prophecy of the Papacy"). Edited by and with a preface by Andreas Osiander, it includes 150 verses by Sachs, and a wonderful series of woodcut illustrations by Erhard Schön making it an artistic collaboration of Nuremberg Reformers of the day. The work was inspired by the discovery of a 13th-century manuscript known as the Pope Prophecies by Osiander in the Carthusian Monastery, Nuremburg, in March 1525. The text, a medieval prophecy describing the sins of the popes, the coming of the Antichrist, and the impending change, was of keen interest to the Reformers in Nuremburg, and had great potential as propaganda for Osiander. In the final paragraph of his preface, Osiander states that the tract is meant to admonish Catholics and show them their fate. Following Osiander's preface are thirty woodcut images from the Pope Prophecies, each with a gloss by Osiander and each accompanied by two rhymed couplets by Sachs. At the end is a longer closing poem also by Sachs summarizing Osiander's interpretation. The woodcuts are the work of the Nuremberg artist Erhard Schön who frequently collaborated with Sachs. The blocks were cut by Hieronymus Andrea a local Formschneider who worked with many Nuremberg artists and printers, including Albrecht Dürer The woodcut images are predominantly allegorical representations of the pope, showing the pope in league with Satan, and the papal vices and crimes are shown with repeated political references. Luther is included dressed as a monk in black and holding a sickle and a rose with a severed leg (Isaiah 40:6 "all flesh is as grass"). Contemporary events such as the Diet of Worms and Nuremberg are referenced with the two town views on D2r and D2v. Luther approved of this work, but it was suppressed at Nuremberg, and Sachs was reprimanded by the authorities. Most copies of the book were destroyed by the Nuremburg authorities and the work therefore is EXTREMELY RARE: according to American Book Prices Currrent no copy has appeared at auction in at least thirty-five years. Heffner, David Todd 'Eyn wunderliche Weyssagung von dem Babstumb': Medieval Prophecy into Reformation Polemic , U. Penn, 1991; Muther 1146; Seebass, G. Bibliographia Osiandrica 11.1; VD-16 W 4642. Fact and Fantasy 22.

Auction archive: Lot number 25
Auction:
Datum:
9 Apr 2013 - 10 Apr 2013
Auction house:
Christie's
9-10 April 2013, New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

SACHS, Hans (1494-1576). Eyn wunderliche Weyssagung von dem Babstumb . Edited by Andreas Osiander. Nuremberg: Hans Guldemundt, 1527.
SACHS, Hans (1494-1576). Eyn wunderliche Weyssagung von dem Babstumb . Edited by Andreas Osiander. Nuremberg: Hans Guldemundt, 1527. 4 o (199 x 144 mm). Gothic type. Collation: A-C 4 D 2 E 4 . 18 leaves. 30 woodcuts by Erhard Schoen, ALL COLORED IN A CONTEMPORARY HAND. (Some very minor dampstains.) 19th-century morocco gilt with arms and cipher on sides. Provenance : John Eliot Hodkin (binding and bookplate; his sale, Sotheby's, 12 May 1914, lot 1359) -- Acquired from Goodspeed's Book Shop, 1969. EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION, WOODCUTS WITH CONTEMPORARY SOUTH-GERMAN COLORING. The German Meistersinger, poet, dramatist and cobbler, Hans Sachs was an admirer of Luther, and one of the first and most committed adherents of the Reformation in Nuremberg. In 1524 he published Vier Dialogen in Prosa , or, the disputations between a canon and a shoemaker, an attack on the outward works and vows of the clergy, as well as two warnings to the Lutherans themselves against unseemly conduct and abuse of their freedom. In 1527, a sensation was created with the publication of Eyn wunderliche Weyssagung von dem Babstumb ("A Wondrous Prophecy of the Papacy"). Edited by and with a preface by Andreas Osiander, it includes 150 verses by Sachs, and a wonderful series of woodcut illustrations by Erhard Schön making it an artistic collaboration of Nuremberg Reformers of the day. The work was inspired by the discovery of a 13th-century manuscript known as the Pope Prophecies by Osiander in the Carthusian Monastery, Nuremburg, in March 1525. The text, a medieval prophecy describing the sins of the popes, the coming of the Antichrist, and the impending change, was of keen interest to the Reformers in Nuremburg, and had great potential as propaganda for Osiander. In the final paragraph of his preface, Osiander states that the tract is meant to admonish Catholics and show them their fate. Following Osiander's preface are thirty woodcut images from the Pope Prophecies, each with a gloss by Osiander and each accompanied by two rhymed couplets by Sachs. At the end is a longer closing poem also by Sachs summarizing Osiander's interpretation. The woodcuts are the work of the Nuremberg artist Erhard Schön who frequently collaborated with Sachs. The blocks were cut by Hieronymus Andrea a local Formschneider who worked with many Nuremberg artists and printers, including Albrecht Dürer The woodcut images are predominantly allegorical representations of the pope, showing the pope in league with Satan, and the papal vices and crimes are shown with repeated political references. Luther is included dressed as a monk in black and holding a sickle and a rose with a severed leg (Isaiah 40:6 "all flesh is as grass"). Contemporary events such as the Diet of Worms and Nuremberg are referenced with the two town views on D2r and D2v. Luther approved of this work, but it was suppressed at Nuremberg, and Sachs was reprimanded by the authorities. Most copies of the book were destroyed by the Nuremburg authorities and the work therefore is EXTREMELY RARE: according to American Book Prices Currrent no copy has appeared at auction in at least thirty-five years. Heffner, David Todd 'Eyn wunderliche Weyssagung von dem Babstumb': Medieval Prophecy into Reformation Polemic , U. Penn, 1991; Muther 1146; Seebass, G. Bibliographia Osiandrica 11.1; VD-16 W 4642. Fact and Fantasy 22.

Auction archive: Lot number 25
Auction:
Datum:
9 Apr 2013 - 10 Apr 2013
Auction house:
Christie's
9-10 April 2013, New York, Rockefeller Center
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