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Der Clocker thurn bin ich genant : vn[d] meld hie d[er] vo[n] güntzburg schand, wie wol ich nur ein Steinhauff bin, zwingt mich doch des eua[n]geliste[n] sin, dan[n] sie mich habend missgebraucht, mit mir gestrafft den armen hauff, dem christus selb sein wort verheisst, als Lucas klar am sibenden weisst, wo fischer schnitzer bierwirt regiert, die pollici wirdt leicht zerstört.
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Reformation.
- Günzburg (Germany)--History.
- Günzburg (Germany).
- Reformation--Germany--Günzburg.
- Reformation--Germany--1517-1648--Pamphlets.
- Germany.
- Germany--Günzburg.
- Genre:
- Pamphlets.
- Physical Description:
- 16 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm (4to)
- Other Title:
- Clockerthurn
- Glockenthurm
- Glockenturm
- Fingerprint:
- o-e- gtst nner oln) (C) 1523 (Q)
- Place of Publication:
- [Tübingen] : [Ulrich Morhart], [1523]
- Summary:
- Pamphlet written in defence of the citizens of Günzburg who had listened to the sermons of Hans Jakob Wehe, a reforming priest who was also a cousin of Johan Eberlin. The priest of Günzburg had the magistrates of the town imprison several of those citizens in the town's clocktower. Cf. Dipple.
- Notes:
- Anonymous pamphlet, often attributed to Johann Eberlin, but the authenticity of Eberlin's authorship of this work has been disputed. Cf. Dipple.
- Place of printing and printer's name from VD 16; text dated at end: Datum in einem dorff zwůundsibentzig meyll von Niclasport jm xxiij. jare.
- Signatures: A-B⁴ (A2 missigned A3).
- Leaf A2 signed "A iij".
- Without pagination.
- Title within woodcut border.
- Initial space with guide letter.
- Printed marginalia.
- Local Notes:
- Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1952.
- Cited in:
- BM STC German, 1455-1600, p. 379
- Dipple, G. Antifraternalism and anticlericalism, p. 203
- Kuczyński, A. Thesaurus libellorum, 631
- Pegg, M. Libraries of Great Britain and Ireland, 1311
- Panzer, G. Annalen der ältern deutsche Litteratur, II, 1865
- VD 16 E129
- OCLC:
- 57703405
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