Eclipses Politico-Morales
Subtitle: Sicht- und unsichtbare sittliche Staats-Einsternussen, denen Kindern des Liechts zur Warnung, denen Kindern dieser Welt (die sich Klüger düncken als jene) zur heil samen Verschämung treulich vorgestellet, am beliebigen Horizont entdeckt, und ans Tags-Liecht gebracht. Ad annum climactericum magnum praedominante saturno, die critico deprehensae, tubo scenico perlustrata
Publisher: s.n.]
Published: 1714
Place of publication: Gedruckt in Umbria [Nuremburg?
Language: ger
Number of pages: 84
Subjects: German wit and humor; German Satire; German drama
Notes: Virgules replaced by commas in title page transcription.

Attributed to Franz Callenbach by Backer-Sommervogel, the Yale Collection of German Literature, and the VD 18.

False imprint; suggested place and date of publication of Nuremberg given by the Yale Collection of German Literature and the VD 18.

According to Dünnhaupt this school drama was performed under the direction of Callenbach and staged by his students at the small Jesuit school in Wetzlar, Germany.

Signatures: A-E⁸ (A1 verso blank) F²

Woodcut printer's ornaments of a sun, moon, and astrological symbols on title page; head and tail pieces.

Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus, IV: col. 901, no. 5.

Yale Collection of German Literature. German Baroque literature, 1030.

Dünnhaupt, G. Bibliographisches Handbuch der Barockliteratur, 949.7.8.

Verzeichnis Deutscher Drucke des 18. Jahrhunderts (VD 18), 11381701.

Purchase; 2017; 18-178.

Text in both German and Latin.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound as 1st item of 7 with: Uti ante hac, auf de alte Hack, olim autem non sic sive Revolutio Saeculorum in deteriora ruentium: oder: Die von den Todten erweckte alte Welt verweist der neuen ihren verdächtigen Lebens-Wandel / by Franz Callenbach, printed [S.l., ca. 1716]

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full alumtawde pigskin.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the St. Mariana Fund.