THEOBALD, Zacharias.
Hussiten Krieg: darinnen begriffen, das Leben, die Lehr, der Todt M. Johannis Hussii, auch wie derselbe von den Böhmen, besonders Johann Zischka, ist gerochen, und seine Lehr hernacher inn dem Königreich erhalten worden ...
Nuremberg, Simon Halbmayer, 1621. 4 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With the full-page portrait of the author (1621), and 17 numbered full-page portraits of Johannes Huss, popes, kings, emperors and other Bohemian reformers, by Johann Conrad Klüpffel. The 4 titles printed in red and black, the first 3 with the woodcut coat-of-arms of Bohemia, Halbmayers woodcut device at the end of all 4 parts, folding letterpress genealogical table in the 4th part, the added Confessio. Contemporary vellum, title on spine. [8], 322, [2]; 228; 179, [9]; 107, [5] pp.
€ 4,750
Rare second, much enlarged and best edition of the first scholarly German-language history of the well-known Hussite Wars up to the entry of Sigismund in 1436, including the life of Johannes Huss (1373-1415), and the expansion of Huss's ideas and teachings in Bohemia and beyond. It gives a comprehensive history of the Hussite wars, written in the early 16th century from a Protestant point of view (as opposed to the work of Cochlaeus), by Zacharias Theobald (1584-1627), minister at Krathofen. He composed it with the general public in mind and it was indeed very popular in Germany at a time when common interests brought close relations between Bohemian and German Protestants.
Together with the first German edition of the Czech Confessio, together with the exposition of the Church Order and the organization of the Prague Consistory, added to the present edition as part 4: Confessio Bohemica Evangelica: Das ist Böhmische Confession ...
The parts new to this second edition are part 2: "Was sich bey der Regierung Käysers Sigismundi, Käysers Alberti, und dann Königs Ladislai, von dem 1436. biß auff das 1458 Jahr, im Land zu Böheim in Fried und Unfried begeben"; part 3: "Was sich bey der Regierung König Girschicks, König Wladislai, vnd König Ludovici, von dem 1458. biß auff das 1517 Jahr, im Land zu Böheim in Fried und Unfried begeben'.
Zacharias Theobald, historian and theologian, was pre-eminently suited for his task, since he was born in Bohemia of Protestant parents and from his youth deeply interested in the teachings of Huss and Hieronymus. Luther was in his eyes Huss's heir and successor. Studying the writings and the documents of the trial of Huss he found the treatment he had received at Konstanz "arbitrary and unchristian".
The present second edition became the definitive text of this famous history and is enlarged with the first edition of the Bohemian Confession for the benefit of the German readers.
Very good complete copy with the bookplate of Ferdinandus Sigismundus Kressy à Kressenstein (1641-1704), member of a Bavarian family noted for its military spirit. Graesse VII, 113; STC (17th century) T 273; VD17, 3:004787T (part 4: 12:189760H); Thieme & Becker, 20, p. 552; Wegele, p. 377 ("evangelisch gesinnte verlässliche Darstellung in Deutscher Sprache"); ADB 37, pp. 682-684.
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