Spangenberg, Cyriacus
Wider die böse Sieben /... Lot 356
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Spangenberg, Cyriacus
Wider die böse Sieben / ins Teufels Karnöffelspiel. (On the last leaf:) eisleben, Urban Gaubisch, 1562. cl.-4°. 296 unnum. (quire numbering: [4], A-Z4, a-z4, Aa-Zz4, Aaa-Ddd4) Title printed in roan and with large satirical woodcut title. Paperback with vellum cover. (Fragment of a liturgical manuscript with new notation; heavily darkened, corners scuffed, some wormholes). VD16 S-7727 or 7728, not in Adams. One of four editions from the same year of this polemic against Pope Pius IV, on the occasion of the reconvening of the Council of Trent against the Reformation. Spangenberg (1528-1604) had entered the University of Wittenberg at the age of 14, where he enjoyed the special favor of Luther and Melanchthon; not yet 19, he was appointed Latin teacher at the young Eisleben Gymnaisum; in 1550 he switched to the preaching ministry and became his father's successor in Mansfeld. The following ten years were his most fruitful as a writer and preacher. "'Wider die Bösen Sieben ins Teuffels Karnöffelspiel' (Eisleben 1562) he called a heptade of the most powerful literary invectives "against Satan's little red child": flanked by Pope Pius IV and Bishop Stanislaus Hosius, he has the Dominican Limpricius, the Lutheran apostates Frid. Staphylus and Steph. Agricola and the Cologne printer Jaspar Gennep, and even the distinguished figure of Cardinal Contarini, who has long since been laid to rest, is not spared the shaking blows of the zealous Lutheran, who only does not immediately turn the literary polemics into personal insults towards him." (ADB). The Karnöffelspiel is a 15th century German card game in which the top card is the Karnöffel, which is supposed to be the cardinal. Brown stain in the upper margin through about half of the volume, faint trace of moisture in the outer margin of the last approx. 120 leaves. Small wormholes through binding and first approx. 10 leaves in upper margin. Occasional underlining in ink and pencil notations. Ex-libris Richard Zoozmann on the inside cover, purchase note in his hand on the flyleaf endpaper.
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