Title: Alamannicarum rerum scriptores aliquot vetusti, à quibus Alamannorum, qui nunc partim Suevis, partim Helvetiis cessere, Historiæ tam Sæculares quam Ecclesiasticæ, ea diligentia atque fide perscriptæ sunt [...]
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Full title:</b> Alamannicarum rerum scriptores aliquot vetusti, à quibus Alamannorum, qui nunc partim Suevis, partim Helvetiis cessere, Historiæ tam Sæculares quam Ecclesiasticæ, ea diligentia atque fide perscriptæ sunt, ut non solùm Antiquitatum Studiosis, sed Theologis cum primis &amp; Iurisconsultis cognitu utiles &amp; idoneæ sint. Tomus unus in duas partes tributus, cum glossis rerum et verborum difficiliorum, quibus nonnumquam historiæ illustrantur, familiarum indagantur origines, ritus prisci eruntur, deniq[ue] verba feudalia explanantur. Omnia nun primùm edita ex Bibliotheca Melchioris Haiminsfeldii Goldasti. Cum Indice rerum &amp; verborum accuratissimo [Alamannicarum rerum scriptores aliquot veteres, à quibus Alamanniæ, quæ nunc Superior Germania ab Suevis et Helvetiis culitur, antiquitates pleræque omnes tam sæculares quàm Ecclesiasticæ eâ diligentiâ atque fide sunt perscriptæ, ut non solum Studiosis antiquitatum, sed Theologis cum primis, Iurisconsultis &amp; Philologis cognitu utiles &amp; ferè necessariæ sint. Tomus alter in duas partes tributus. Cum annotationibus et indice ; Alamannicarum rerum scriptores aliquot recentiores. A quibus Alamannorum scriptores, veteres, superioribus tomis comprehensi, tum alii plerique omnes æque Germanici quam Francici, in examen statuuntur; ritusq[ue]; varii, &amp; consuetudines veterum Germanorum Ecclesiasticæ simul &amp; Politicæ, veræ à falsis &amp; adulterinis discriminantur, ea diligentia atq[ue]; fide, ut non solum Studiosis Antiquitatum, sed Theologis cum primis &amp; Iuriconsultis cognitu utiles &amp; vere necessarii sint. Tomus tertius &amp; ultimus, in quo primas tenent].</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"> 3 volumes in 1 folio. ff. 4, pp. 396, [26]; ff. 4, pp. 199, [3]; ff. 12, pp. 224, [6]. Half vellum over a rubricated manuscript leaf with red and blue initials. Old provenance note (‘Ex Bibliotheca Windhagiana’) on title, and armorial bookplate (1656) of Count Joachim Windhag on verso of title.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">First edition of this work by the prolific historian and palaeographer Melchior Goldast (ca. 1578-1635), in which he mingled imaginary texts with real discoveries made among the manuscripts preserved at St Gall, which Goldast borrowed, sequestered, and not infrequently ‘lost.’ The 1730 third edition has a memoir/bibliography by H. C. Senckenberg: see summary of editions and contents in A. Baade, Melchior Goldast von Haiminsfeld: collector, commentator, and editor. New York, 1992, pp. 117-153. Baade does not identify specific forgeries as raised by 17th- and 18th-century scholars (Conring, Reimmann, Bayle, and Senckenberg), save for the controversial ‘De duplici concordia,’ tendentiously attributed to Justus Lipsius, but they seem to be plentiful.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">See Bib# 6722377/Fr# 337.2 in this collection for Goldast’s earliest substantial scholarly work.
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