Libri philomusi. Panegyrici ad rege(m). Tragedia de Thurcis et Suldano. Dyalog(us) de heresiarchis.

(LOCHER, Jacob)

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Titre : Libri philomusi. Panegyrici ad rege(m). ...

Éditeur : Strassburg, Johann Grüninger,

Date d'édition : 1497

Reliure : Hardcover

Etat du livre : Very Good

Edition : 1st Edition

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Small 4to. [62]f. Roman & gothic letter. 31 text-and head-lines. With 20 fine woodcuts (including repeats). Pigskin blindtooled in the style of the period. First edition of four neo-Latin compositions by the German poet laureate Jacob Locher (1471-1528), translator of Brant’s “Ship of Fools”, known as “Philomusus” for his love of learning. The third and most substantial piece is the “Tragedy of the Turks and their Sultan”, first performed at the College at Freiburg by Locher’s students in May 1497. The intention of this play, composed in five acts, prose and verse, is to encourage the Christian nations to make war on the Turks. The drama has literary importance as the very first example of its genre. The preceding poems, epigrams, letters and laudatory verses include the author’s panegyric address to the Emperor Maximilian I. Twelve of the 20 woodcuts adorning this volume (mostly composites) were specially designed for it (-see Ritter, Histoire de l’impression alsacienne, (1955), p88, who praises the finesse of the line-work.) Outstanding are the splendid full-page portrait of the author, crowned as imperial court-poet, lecturing at his desk, the charming representation of six putti dancing, and singing from a sheet of music, and a triumphal car with the Emperor Maximilian preceded by singers in a procession. A good copy with occasional contemporary manuscript underlinings and notes in margins. BMC I, 112; Fairfax Murray (German) I, 242; Goff L-264; Hain-Copinger 10153; Schmidt, Grüninger, 32; Schreiber 4513. SEE ILLUSTRATION. N° de réf. du libraire