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JOHANNES MAGNUS HISTORIA 1554. MAGNUS, JOHANNES. Historia Ioannis Magni gothi sedes apostolocae legati Svetiae et Gotiae primatis ac archiepiscopi Upsaliensis de omnibus Gothorum Sveonumque regibus qui unquam ab initio nationis extitere, eorúmque memorabilibus bellis late varieque per orbem gestis, opera Olai Magni gothi fratris eiusdem autoris ac etiam archiepiscopi Upsaliensis in lucem edita. Suscipiant montes pacem populo.
Rom, Viotti, 1554.

Folio. 287 x 198 mm. (58, 2 blank), 581-583-586, 586-787, (3) pp. Woodcut illustrations and initials. Contemporary vellum. Yellowed and soiled, inscriptions with ink on spine and front board. Recurring damp. Margin notes with ink. Minor tears, a couple with repairs. Title and second leaf mounted. Title with some losses of print, filled-in with ink. Worming and repairs in lower margin up to p. 43. Loss of paper in lower corner pp. 211-15 and 387. Hole with loss of some letters pp. 231/-32 and 637/-38. Worming in lower corner pp. 425-84.
Staffan Kinman´s exlibris on front board inside.

Collijn II:210-16.
First edition which was edited by the author´s brother, Olaus Magnus.
This famous history was written in Venice in 1540, where the author was then living as a Catholic refugee - he had left Sweden in 1526. In it, the Gothic romantic conception of Sweden as the "vagina gentium", the idea of Jordanes, 6th century chronicler of the Goths, is developed in a history of Swedish kings both at home and abroad leading the migrating peoples. This conception was the leading ideology of Swedish patriotism in the 17th century, when the text was translated into Swedish (1620). (Sten G. Lindberg, Swedish Books 1280-1967, page 16.).

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467608

Datum:

2017-06-09