Two Rare Reformation Works Bound Together 1611 Daniel Cramer 1618 Caspar Finck

Description: Two rare but incomplete works of 17th century Reformation literature bound together in a 3 1/4 x 5 1/8 inches tall (12mo) white vellum hardcover with yapped fore edges, black paper and handwritten labels to spine, 654 pages total (with separate pagination). Vellum moderately to heavily soiled and rubbed. Half-inch tear to black paper covering spine. Ink shelf mark to blank front free-endpaper. The first work lacks pp. 411-430; the second work lacks pp. 11-14. Overall age-toned and somewhat stained. Margins are trimmed, in the second work right up to the border. Occasional early ink notes or underlining throughout. The title page for the second work heavily chipped to the lower fore edge, not impacting text. Flores Fragrantissimi meditiationum precumq[ue] sacrarum : Ex Hortulo Animae Veteri, Sed A Tribulis [et] lolio solicite repurgato, excerpti; Insertis haud paucis tam veterum quam recentium eiusdem speciei plantulis: Septem Semitis, quas versa pagina indi [Flowers of the Most Fragrant Prayers & Sacred Prayers: From the Garden of the Old Soul...] by Daniel Cramer In Latin. 1611 Georg Ludwig Frobenius (Hamburg, Germany), with 18 text woodcut engravings including the 12 signs of the zodiac and 6 biblical scenes, [72], 463 pp. (pp. 411-43 lacking) Rare. The Universal Short Title Catalog (USTC, No. 2120144) locates only three copies worldwide - one at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland; one at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, England; and one at the Universitätsbibliothek in Kiel, Germany. Daniel Cramer (1568-1637) was a German Lutheran theologian and writer from Reetz, Brandenburg, Germany (then the Holy Roman Empire). He was an opponent of the Ramists and the Jesuits. Cramer is remembered for his emblem book The True Society of Jesus and the Rosy Cross (1617). It was reprinted with different titles, and was composed with the academic and poet Conrad Bachmann (1572-1646). The common denominator of all Cramer's emblems is a mystic heart, represented in the most different situations: chained, crowned, nailed to a cross, to the roots of a rosary, endowed with wings, undermined by the devil, and so on. The books of emblems composed by Daniel Cramer are considered by some scholars (for example Adam McLean and Giordano Berti) as expressions of the Rosicrucian thought. Indeed, various clues suggest that Cramer may have been a member of the Rosicrucian brotherhood. Vade mecum Das ist: Geistliches Handt und Reißbüchlein, darin die Artickel des Christlichen Glaubens, einig und allein auß H. Schrift, kürtzlich beantwortet und bestettiget werden: Nicht allein vor die Schulen auff dem Lande, sondern auch vor alle from[m]e Christen, in Druck gegeben [Spiritual Handbook and Drawing Book]by Kaspar (Caspar) Finck In German. 1618 Johann Röhbock (Erffurdt [Erfurt], Germany), title page in red and black ink, text printed within woodcut borders, [12], 214 pp. (pp. 11-14 lacking). Extremely rare. The USTC (No. 2534614) finds only one copy in collections worldwide - at Stadtbibliothek Braunschweig in Braunschweig, Germany. Kaspar (Caspar) Finck (1578-1631) was a theologian and philosopher, and a professor in Giessen from 1607 and Coburg from 1616.

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