![WYTWYLER, Ulrich (fl. 1567). Von dem Leben unnd Sterben des heiligen Einsidels und Marterers Meinradi [and other works]. Edited and with additions by Joachim Müller von Einsiedeln (d.1589). [Freiburg?]: 1577.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2018/CKS/2018_CKS_16018_0214_000(wytwyler_ulrich_von_dem_leben_unnd_sterben_des_heiligen_einsidels_und101638).jpg?w=1)
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WYTWYLER, Ulrich (fl. 1567). Von dem Leben unnd Sterben des heiligen Einsidels und Marterers Meinradi [and other works]. Edited and with additions by Joachim Müller von Einsiedeln (d.1589). [Freiburg?]: 1577.
A finely coloured copy of a popular Life of St Meinrad, from the library of the Augsburg monastery of SS Ulrich and Afra. Second edition, the first to contain supplementary biographies of St Justus by the Venerable Bede, St Mauritius by Eucherius of Lyons, and Bishop Wolfgang and St Gerolt by Joachim of Einsiedeln. Einsiedeln became a place of pilgrimage as the site of pious seclusion chosen by the 9th-century monk, Meinrad. After Meinrad's murder in 861, a Benedictine monastery was established there, and Meinrad's reliquary was installed in the newly-built chapel. His legend derives from an ancient source, and was transmitted in various versions and forms to satisfy the pilgrimage demand. Blockbook editions of about 1450-64 established the illustrative cycle, which are the source for all Meinrad editions of the 15th and 16th centuries. The present version of the Meinrad legend is the work of Ulrich Wytwyler, priest, administrator and abbot of Einsiedeln. It was first printed at Freiburg in 1567 without the additional saints' lives. No place of printing is given in this second edition, but the ornamental capitals are identical to those found in the previous edition. VD-16 W-4715.
Quarto (192 x 144mm). 32 large woodcuts, all fully coloured by an early hand, type-ornament border to all pages (a few short marginal tears, tear at lower hinge of title, last leaf laid down). Contemporary Augsburg binding by Mathias Gärtner or Caspar Horneffer of flexible vellum tooled in gilt with IHS stamp on front cover and Virgin and Child on back cover, flat spine tooled in compartments, red edges (gilt rubbed, new endpapers, older flyleaves preserved at end); modern folding box . Provenance: Augsburg, Monastery of SS Ulrich and Afra (16th/17th-century inscription) – Paul Scherrer-Bylund (modern bookplate) -- the Arcana Collection.
A finely coloured copy of a popular Life of St Meinrad, from the library of the Augsburg monastery of SS Ulrich and Afra. Second edition, the first to contain supplementary biographies of St Justus by the Venerable Bede, St Mauritius by Eucherius of Lyons, and Bishop Wolfgang and St Gerolt by Joachim of Einsiedeln. Einsiedeln became a place of pilgrimage as the site of pious seclusion chosen by the 9th-century monk, Meinrad. After Meinrad's murder in 861, a Benedictine monastery was established there, and Meinrad's reliquary was installed in the newly-built chapel. His legend derives from an ancient source, and was transmitted in various versions and forms to satisfy the pilgrimage demand. Blockbook editions of about 1450-64 established the illustrative cycle, which are the source for all Meinrad editions of the 15th and 16th centuries. The present version of the Meinrad legend is the work of Ulrich Wytwyler, priest, administrator and abbot of Einsiedeln. It was first printed at Freiburg in 1567 without the additional saints' lives. No place of printing is given in this second edition, but the ornamental capitals are identical to those found in the previous edition. VD-16 W-4715.
Quarto (192 x 144mm). 32 large woodcuts, all fully coloured by an early hand, type-ornament border to all pages (a few short marginal tears, tear at lower hinge of title, last leaf laid down). Contemporary Augsburg binding by Mathias Gärtner or Caspar Horneffer of flexible vellum tooled in gilt with IHS stamp on front cover and Virgin and Child on back cover, flat spine tooled in compartments, red edges (gilt rubbed, new endpapers, older flyleaves preserved at end); modern folding box . Provenance: Augsburg, Monastery of SS Ulrich and Afra (16th/17th-century inscription) – Paul Scherrer-Bylund (modern bookplate) -- the Arcana Collection.
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