115 - LICHTENBERGER (Johannes). Prognosticatio Latina Anno .lxxxviii. ad magna [sic for magnam] / co[n]iunctione[m] Saturni Jouis q[ui] fuit a[n]no .lxxxiiii. and the solar eclipse of the following year, .sc[ilicet].lxxxv. [In the colophon, on the last page:] In the year of our Lord M.cccc.xcii., on the eighth day of the month of June, in the illustrious city of Maguntina. Small folio, (36) printed folios in Gothic type, initials and paragraph marks painted in red or blue at the time, stiff reused parchment; copy trimmed slightly short with loss of a few old marginal annotations in ink, a tear with a few words missing, worm damage affecting several letters, a few leaves with pen tests and modern inscriptions (modern binding).

LICHTENBERGER (Johannes). Prognosticatio Latina Anno .lxxxviii. ad magna [sic for magnam] / co[n]iunctione[m] Saturni Jouis q[ui] fuit a[n]no .lxxxiiii. and the solar eclipse of the following year, .sc[ilicet].lxxxv. [In the colophon, on the last page:] In the year of our Lord M.cccc.xcii., on the eighth day of the month of June, in the illustrious city of Maguntina. Small folio, (36) printed folios in Gothic type, initials and paragraph marks painted in red or blue at the time, stiff reused parchment; copy trimmed slightly short with loss of a few old marginal annotations in ink, a tear with a few words missing, worm damage affecting several letters, a few leaves with pen tests and modern inscriptions (modern binding). A BEAUTIFUL INCUNABULUM PRINTED BY JAKOB MEYDENBACH IN MAINZ on June 8, 1492 (BSB-Ink L-164; CIBN L-167; GW M18225; H 10082; ISTC il00205000). The author identifies himself in the text (f. A5, line 11) and, on the facing page, is depicted in prayer in one of the engravings (f. A4). The work was originally published in Heidelberg in 1488. FAMOUS COLLECTION OF ASTROLOGICAL PROPHECIES. In this “prediction,” inspired by the study of the conjunction between Saturn and Jupiter in 1484 and the solar eclipse that occurred the following year, the astrologer Johannes Lichtenberger, a native of Lichtenberg in the Palatinate, offers predictions with prophetic overtones, announcing, for example, the birth of a new messiah around 1484. Martin Luther seriously believed he saw in it a foretelling of his own birth and requested in 1524 that the work be reprinted. BEAUTIFUL WOODCUT ILLUSTRATIONS: 43 large compositions, including 3 that are nearly full-page, featuring, notably, a joint portrait of Ptolemy, Aristotle, a sibyl, Saint Bridget, and, most surprisingly, Reinhard the Lollard (who had been burned at the stake for heresy).