755 - Baroque

Baroque Tympe, M. Funeral, Consolation, and Penitential Sermons, Including Instructions on How They May Be Used in the Exposition of the Sunday and Feast Day Gospels. Anthology comprising 6 parts in 1 volume. With an engraved title page and 5 additional printed titles. Münster, Dale, 1619. 5 leaves, 605 pages, 12 leaves. 4°. Contemporary pigskin over wooden boards (scraped, tanned, missing the clasps, headbands with minor wear). A beautiful collected volume containing funeral sermons and other sermons by M. Tympe. - VD17 12:628281G. - Bound together with: 1. Creutzfähnlein ... VD17 12: 105696T - 2. New Year’s Sermons (Part 3), 1618. - 3. The Christian / Prudent Householder. Münster, Raßfeldt, 1618. VD17 12: 628274Y. - 4. Tympe, Mirror for Married Couples (Part 4 of the Sermons). - 5. Tympe, Procession Sermons (Part 5). 1625. - M. Tympe (was) an exceedingly prolific theological writer. In 1595, the Osnabrück Cathedral Chapter (appointment on the Tuesday after Judica) called him to serve as rector at the cathedral school there. Since the time of the Augsburg Interim (1548), the school had been attended by both Catholic and Protestant students; but now, when the new, strictly Catholic rector replaced the former teachers with others—whom the people called Jesuits —abolished the Lutheran textbooks, introduced Canisius’s catechism, and otherwise infringed upon the rights of the Protestant residents, the latter withdrew almost all of their sons from the cathedral school... (ADB 39, pp. 53–55). - A multi-line handwritten entry, likely from the period, on the endpaper; the book is slightly browned throughout; the title plate is stamped on the unprinted margin. This lot is subject to standard tax. A 24.95% buyer’s premium applies to the hammer price, and 7% (Books and Art) or 19% VAT (Manuscripts, Screenprints, Offset Prints, Photographs) applies to the final invoice amount within the European Union. This work is subject to the standard tax regime. A 24.95% buyer’s premium applies to the hammer price, and 7% (books and art) or 19% VAT (manuscripts, screen prints, offset prints, and photographs) applies to the final invoice amount within the European Union.