Ein wunderliche weissagung, von dem Bapstnmb , wie es yhm bis an das ende der welt gehen sol : ynn figuren odder gemelde begriffen, gefunden zu Nurmberg, ym Cartheuser kloster, vnd ist seer alt : ein vorred, Andreas Osianders : mit gutter verstendtlicher auslegung, durch gelerte leut, verklert, wilche, Hans Sachs yn Deudsche reymen gefasset, vnd darzu gesetzt hat.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Osiander, Andreas, 1498-1552.

Sachs, Hans, 1494-1576.

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--Controversial literature.

Catholic Church.

Papacy--Controversial literature.

Papacy.

Genre:

Controversial literature.

Penn Provenance:

Hoe, Robert (bookplate)

Wolf, Howard A. (bookplate)

Physical Description:

36 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 20 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Wunderliche weissagung, von dem Bapstumb.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1527.

Notes:

Thirty allegorical woodcuts illustrating the history and ultimate defeat of the papacy, each accompanied by an explanation by Andreas Osiander and two rhyming couplets by Hans Sachs.

The woodcuts are different from those by Erhard Schön in the edition of the "Wünderliche Weyssagung" published in the same year by H. Guldenmundt, Nuremberg.

Date on t.p. reads: Ym .M.D.xxvij. Iare.

Signatures: A-C4 D2 E4.

Cf. Bainton, R.H. Eyn wunderliche Weyssagung Osiander-Sachs-Luther (Germanic Review, 21, 1946, p. 161-164); Warburg, A. Heidnisch-antike Weissagung in Wort und Bild zu Luthers Zeiten, p. 47-49 (Sitzungsberichte der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, Jahrgang 1919, 26. Abhandlung); Andersson, C. Polemical prints during the Reformation (Censorship : 500 years of conflict / New York Public Library, p. 34-51); Scribner, R.W. For the sake of simple folk : popular propaganda for the German Reformation, p. 142-147.

Local Notes:

Binding: modern boards covered with old illuminated music ms. on vellum.

Cited in:

Adams P216.

OCLC:

80419984