Obj. ID: 40962 Jerusalem, vetustissima .... by Adam Reissner, Frankfurt am Main, 1563
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ADAM REISSNER: Ierusalem, the old Haubtstat of the Jews as it was before the last destructive auff high mountains, in the middle of the world, as the jrrdische Paradyss, a Vorbildt the eternal place of God. With Kurtzer Historia VND explanation of what God from the beginning acted with disem place ... Whatever the newe spiritual, eternal, and heavenly Jerusalem sey ... Everything from the Hebrew ... aussgelegt.Sie offer a rare edition from the publisher by Georg Rab, Sigmund Feyrabend and Weygand Hans heirs (Frankfurt / Main) from 1565. Bound in half leather binding of the 17th Century in the format: 31cm x 20.5 cm. With 2 double-page large Holzschnitt-Tafeln/Plהnen and 89 woodcuts in the text, including by Virgil Solis and the monogramist SHF. Very richly illustrated with woodcuts, compared to the first edition of 1563 much rarer, second German edition of the most important works of Adam Reissner, a pupil of Johann Reuchlin erudite humanists, with whom he studied Latin, Greek and Hebrew. From 1526 to 1528 he took over as secretary of the Landsknecht leader in imperial Habsburg services, Georg von Frundsberg, on the expedition to Italy part. At the court of Duke Alfonso of Ferrara Reissner learned the Bavarian humanist and theologian Jakob Ziegler know, on the back is also the original idea for this great historical work. - Reissner draws in a much more logical theo 'and at the same time mittelalterlicheres image of the city of Jerusalem than about Bernard of Breydenbach in his eighty years earlier issued Peregrinationes in terram sanctam' (Mainz, 1484). Reissner assumes a contrast Heavenly Jerusalem - Satanic Babylon 'from where Babylon is the incarnation of the corrupt papacy. Conversely, Jerusalem represents for the author, a convinced supporter of Kaspar Schwenckfeld, the first and most important mystic Protestantism, the humanities community of all true believers in the never-ending battle with the Antichrist, the Holy See in Rome. With constant comparisons of historical events with selected Bible passages Reissner comes to the conclusion that the time of judgment had arrived. "In this sense, the work of former rice especially impressed by his symbolist-allegorical traits" (A. Karasch). The great popularity of rice dryer Jerusalem-book prove the different until the end of the 19th Century. published issues. A Latin version of the circles formed worried John Heiden in 1563 under the title: Jerusalem, vetustissima illa et totius mundi civitas celeberrima '. - Total stem 27 of the nearly eighty woodcuts by Virgil Solis (Hollstein's German Engravings, Vol LXVII / 2, pp. 84ff.) That Feyerabend had previously used in his 1560 Luther Bible. Probably the imaginary city maps are unsigned and the question of who is behind the monogram SHF 'hides, remains unanswered. The two double-page large sheets with a View "Jerusalem the holy city vierecket" and "table of the land of Canaan" vorhanden.KOLLATIONIERUNG: 3 parts in a book, 14 sheets,