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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 17TH CENTURY GERMAN IMPRINTS IN DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES OF SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN By P. M. MITCHELL Volume 1 UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LIBRARIES 1969 UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS Library Series, 28 A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 17TH CENTURY GERMAN IMPRINTS IN DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES OF SCHLESWIG^HOLSTEIN By P. M. MITCHELL Volume 1 UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LIBRARIES 1969 COPYRIGHT 1969 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LIBRARIES Library of Congress catalog card number : 66-64214 PRINTED IN LAWRENCE, KANSAS, U.S.A. BY THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PRINTING SERVICE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS IN PREPARING THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY I HAVE BENEFITED FROM THE ASSISTANCE AND GOOD OFFICES OF MANY INDIVIDUALS AND INSTITUTIONS. MY GREATEST DEBT IS TO THE ROYAL LIBRARY IN COPENHAGEN, WHERE, FROM FIRST TO LAST, I HAVE DRAWN ON THE COUNSELS AND ENVIABLE HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE OF DR. RICHARD PAULLI. MESSRS. PALLE BIRKE- LUND, ERIK DAL, AND MOGENS HAUGSTED AS WELL AS MANY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE STAFF OF THE ROYAL LIBRARY CHEERFULLY SOUGHT TO MEET MY SPECIAL NEEDS FOR A DECADE. THE COOPERATION OF DR. OTFRIED WEBER, MR. WOLFGANG MERCKENS, AND MR. KARL-HEINZ TIEDEMANN OF THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KIEL HAS BEEN EXEM• PLARY. DR. OLAF KLOSE OF THE SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEINISCHE LANDESBIBLIOTHEK KINDLY ARRANGED MY VISITS TO SEVERAL PRIVATE LIBRARIES, WHERE I WAS HOSPITABLY RECEIVED. I HAVE ENJOYED SPECIAL PRIVILEGES NOT ONLY IN COPENHAGEN AND KIEL BUT ALSO AT THE LIBRARY OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM, THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COPEN• HAGEN, THE HERZOG AUGUST BIBLIOTHEK IN WOLFENBÜTTEL, THE ROYAL LIBRARY IN STOCKHOLM, AND THE STAATSBIBLIOTHEK IN MUNICH. IN ADDITION, I HAVE BEEN GIVEN READY ACCESS TO THE LIBRARIES OF THE UNIVERSITIES OF GOTHENBURG, LUND, AND UPPSALA AND TO THE DANISH NATIONAL ARCHIVES. THE AUSKUNFTSSTELLE DER DEUTSCHEN BIBLIOTHEKEN IN BERLIN AND THE MANY LIBRARIES COLLABORATING WITH THAT AGENCY WERE UNFLAGGING IN THEIR EFFORTS TO LOCATE HUNDREDS OF ITEMS ABOUT WHICH I HAD ONLY SECONDARY INFORMATION. MR. FRANCIS RODGERS CHAMPIONED MY CAUSE WITH THE AMERICAN INTERLIBRARY LOAN SYSTEM FOR SEVERAL YEARS. MR. DONALD MARTIN, MRS. CHRISTINA ABDELLA, MRS. JUDITH JAKSCH RUPRECHT, MRS. BCNTE THORBORG (NEE LÜSBERG), AND MRS. ANN WELLING (NEE ROSENBERG) EACH RENDERED COMMENDABLE SERVICE AS A RESEARCH ASSISTANT FOR A YEAR OR MORE. MR. AAGE J0RGENSEN AND MISS REBECCA HUNTER HELPED WITH THE LATER STAGES OF THE WORK, ESPECIALLY BY ASSIDUOUS PROOFREADING. MR. L. E. JAMES HELYAR AND MISS ALEXANDRA MASON, BOTH OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LIBRARY, INVESTED MUCH TIME AND THOUGHT TO MAKE THE MANUSCRIPT OF THE BIBLIOGRAPHY INTERNALLY CONSISTENT AND ACCEPTABLE FOR PUBLICATION. MR. HEL• YAR HAS CARRIED THE BURDEN OF SEEING THE BIBLIOGRAPHY THROUGH THE PRESS. THE RESEARCH BOARD OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS SUPPORTED MY PROJECT FOR HALF A DOZEN YEARS. A FULBRIGHT RESEARCH GRANT ENABLED ME TO EXAMINE APPROXI• MATELY HALF OF THE ITEMS WHICH HAVE BEEN RECORDED HERE DURING THE ACADEMIC YEAR 1964-65. I AM GRATEFUL TO THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS FOR ITS GENEROUS SUPPORT IN PUBLISH• ING THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY IN ITS LIBRARY SERIES. P. M. MITCHELL FEBRUARY 1969 V INTRODUCTION This compilation has two goals: first, to contribute to the bibliography of Denmark and Germany during the seventeenth century; and second, to pro• vide factual information about the complex cultural relationship between Denmark and Germany. The seventeenth century presents a deplorable lacuna in both Danish and German bibliography; the labor needed to fill that lacuna seems nearly insuperable. If the task is to be accomplished, it will presumably be done piecemeal—by area and language, and in addition by special studies using the criteria of subject and genre. Several special studies are already in existence. The interdependence of Danish and German culture cannot be de• fined with accuracy until it is possible to speak with assurance of the numbers and kinds of publications which were issued at a given place or time. Geographically this bibliography covers the Danish monarchy in the sev• enteenth century, that is, the area of present-day Denmark, the former Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein, as well as Norway (four, possibly five entries), Iceland (one entry), and, nominally, the provinces of Scania and Blekinge until 1658 (no entries). The political divisions of the seventeenth century have been observed. Thus the city of Altona is included, but not Hamburg. While such delineation may seem somewhat arbitrary, it has historical justification and does reflect conditions which obtained in Northern Europe in the seven• teenth century. The bibliography records all publications with German title-pages (or ti• tles) known or presumed to have been printed or published within the Danish monarchy, including all items which bear an imprint of a printer or bookseller within the monarchy. As a consequence, a few books are listed which were printed outside the monarchy but published in the monarchy, and vice versa. Moreover, a few items which may be employing false places of publication are also included. The bibliography includes books, pamphlets, broadsides, and decrees; it excludes maps and engravings which were separately published without accompanying text. The attempt has been made to be exhaustive, but the many occasional publications which have been found, sometimes preserved only accidentally, indicate that there must have been a large number of occa• sional and ephemeral items of which we now have no bibliographical knowl• edge. Over 600 items listed here are known by title only, through secondary sources. Some of these may perhaps be located and identified as a result of their being listed in this bibliography. The primary source in the search for titles was Bibliotheca Danica, which is essentially a catalogue of the holdings of the Danish division of the Royal Library in Copenhagen (CKB). The second most important printed source vii was Johannes Moller's Cimbria Literata I-1II, Copenhagen, 1744 (cited as Mol• ler) which, however, is augmented by the interleaved copy of the work once the property of the compiler's son, O. H. Moller (cited as OHM), and now preserved in the manuscript division of the Royal Library. Other major sources of printed bibliographical information were the cata• logues of numerous libraries both public and private, all known catalogues of book auctions held in Copenhagen (and a few elsewhere) from the early sev• enteenth century through the year 1760—an arbitrary date—plus the auction catalogues of important collections sold after 1760 (notably Count Thott's), and catalogues of the German book fairs held in Frankfurt and Leipzig—the so-called "Messekataloge" (of which there are notable collections both in the Royal Library in Copenhagen and in the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfen• büttel). To be sure, auction catalogues were not very dependable sources of reference, and the "Messekataloge" are frequently misleading. One may as• sume, however, that if two or more such catalogues provide essentially the same information regarding title, place or date of publication, there is a considerable degree of likelihood of the existence of a title or edition.* A few titles cited here from a single auction catalogue are therefore suspect—but no more suspect than the very few titles which have been taken from Theophil Georgi's slovenly Allgemeines europäisches Bücher-Lexicon, 1742-58. Other scholars have pre• viously warned against Georgi, but the warning bears repeating: in checking Georgi's entries against the books themselves or against more reliable sources, one soon finds that it is a rare instance when Georgi gives author's name, title, place, date, and publisher all correctly. Incidentally, Georgi is prone to list as issued in Copenhagen books published in Frankfurt and Leipzig by Danish entrepreneurs (such as Daniel Paulli, J. J. Erytropolis, and J. M. Liebe). After the Royal Library in Copenhagen, the most important repository of material printed in the Danish monarchy in the seventeenth century is the library of the University of Kiel (Kiel UL), especially by virtue of the large collection of "Libri minores Cimbrici" (LmC). While the greater part of this collection was destroyed during World War II, most of the titles are known, partially through folio catalogues in the University Library and partially through a card file made by the late Dr. Oberländer and deposited in the Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesbibliothek (SHLB) in Kiel. Unfortunately, Dr. Oberländer's file does not always indicate definitely whether an item was separately published; and it may be that some of the destroyed items which * There can be exceptions to this rule. Adam Olearius' Muscowitische Reise appears several times as having been published in 1666. The error is to be ascribed to an altered date on the preliminary engraved title-page, a date which is so confusing that even the CKB copy of the 1671 edition of the book has "1666" on its spine. viii he lists with descriptive German titles may in fact have had Latin title-pages. Their inclusion in this bibliography is a calculated risk, since there is no evi• dence which speaks against inclusion. Dr. Oberländer's concern, like O. H. Moller's, was with genealogy rather than with the history of printing. A perusal of the older catalogues of the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel (HAB) located about forty items not previously found, although some of these were later found elsewhere. About the same number of titles was found by checking a list of desiderata against the catalogues of the Royal Library in Stockholm (SRL) and by examining several volumes of collected pamphlets there. Comparisons of desiderata against the holdings of the library of the University of Lund and a reading of the catalogue (deposited in the library of the University of Gothenburg) of the private Koburg Collection met with negative results. All titles still untraced have been checked against the catalogue of the British Museum (BM) which, incidentally, possesses a few items not located elsewhere.

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