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The 'Welser-Chronik': the most important early history of Augsburg

WELSER, Marcus & Achilles Pirmin GASSER.
Chronica der weitberuempten keyserlichen, freyen und deß h. Reichs Statt Augspurg in Schwaben, von derselben altem Ursprung, schöne gelegene, zierlichen Gebäwen unnd namhafften gedenkwürdigen Geschichten (...) in unser teutschen Spraach in Truck verfertigt, durch Engelbertum Werlichium, der Historien Liebhabern.

Title-page printed in red and black with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, numerous small woodcut portraits after the engravings by Alexander Mayr.

Title-page printed in red and black with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, numerous small woodcut portraits after the engravings by Alexander Mayr.

Title-page printed in red and black with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, numerous small woodcut portraits after the engravings by Alexander Mayr.

Title-page printed in red and black with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, numerous small woodcut portraits after the engravings by Alexander Mayr.

Title-page printed in red and black with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, numerous small woodcut portraits after the engravings by Alexander Mayr.



Frankfurt am Main, Heirs of Chr. Egenolff, 1595. 3 parts in one volume. Folio. Eighteenth century full calf, ribbed spine gilt in compartments with light-brown morocco title label lettered in gold. Title-page printed in red and black with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, numerous small woodcut portraits after the engravings by Alexander Mayr. (8), 110; 282; 141 pp.

With:
(2) (as usual) IDEM. Antiqua monumenta: das ist, alte Bilder, Gemählde, unnd Schriften, so wol deren so zu Augspurg in Vindelicien, als ausserhalb auff derselben Gräntze unnd Bodem, wie auch anderer Orthen gefunden, und doch auff Augspurg gedeutet werden mögen: sampt derselben bedeutnussen, außführlichen Außlegungen und Erklärungen.
Frankfurt a/M, no printer, 1595. Folio. Woodcut title-illustration and 23 mostly half- or quarter-page woodcut illustrations of antiquities from Augsburg. (2),97 pp.

And:
(3) LANGENMANTEL, David. Historie des Regiments in des heil. röm. reichs Stadt Augspurg, in welcher desselben verschiedene Veränderungen, Erweiterungen, Verordnungen, und was sonst darzu gehörig, aus tüchtigen Urkunden und Gründen erzählet (...) und nunmehr mit wichtigen Urkunden vermehret von Jacob Brucker.
Augsburg, David Raymund Mertz & Johann Jacob Mayer, 1734. Folio. Title in red and black, engraved frontispiece by Jac. Andr. Fridrich, 19 (of 21) engraved plates (one folding; one unnumbered, the others numbered A-V; B and D lacking), 6 repeated woodcut headpieces and 1 folding letterpress table. (8), 286, (58) pp.

Ad 1: The first German edition of this important chronicle on Augsburg, translated by Engelbert Werlich. The first of the three parts was written by Markus Welser (1558-1614) himself. It is a translation of his Rerum Augustanarum Vindelicarum libri VIII, published in 1594. The other 2 parts are a translation by Wolfgang Hartmann of the Annales civitatis ac rei publicae Augsburgensis by Achilles Pirmin Gasser (1505-1577),first published in 1572. Apart from this impressive and influential chronicle of Augsburg, Welser is also known from his publication of the famous Tabula Peutingeriana, a 13th century copy of a Roman travel map from the collection of Konrad Peutinger in Augsburg. Welser's activities as a scholar, meacanas, magistrate of Augsburg, as well as publisher/printer make him one of the most important figures of German late humanism.
Ad 2: The first German edition (first Latin edition: Inscriptiones antiquae Augustae Vindelicorum (1590)). The nice anonymous woodcuts depict the ancient monuments of the city, mostly Roman reliefs but also (full-page) the remains of a mosaic floor.
Ad 3: Second edition of this important work on the magistrate and government of Augsburg includiing long lists of burgomasters and other magistrates.

Ad 1 and 2: Good copies.- (Occ. sl. browned; library ticket on upper pastedown and remains of ticket on lower pastedown; blind library stamp in title-page of the first work; hinges weak; upper and lower compartment of spine strengthened with cloth tape; covers chafed and outer corners worn); ad 3: Lacks 2 plates but text complete; browning throughout.
Ad 1 and 2: VD16, W-1894; Adams V 362 and V 361; STC German p. 886; ADB 41 p. 687f (Welser) and 8, p.396f (Gasser).

Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Germany  History 

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