Amerbach correspondence
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The Amerbach correspondence contains parts of the Amerbach family's correspondence , especially from the 15th and 16th centuries, and is managed by the University Library of Basel as an Amerbach edition with a job.
Work began in 1932, initially by the classical philologist Alfred Hartmann , and after his death in 1960 by the historian and high school teacher Beat Rudolf Jenny . The long duration of the project can be explained by the only partial release from school service of the two academic staff. From 1997 and then again from 2003, part-time workers were also hired. Despite Jenny's retirement in 1991, he continued to work on the project on a voluntary basis. The aim of the work is to prepare the partly difficult to decipher and only understandable with extensive commentary manuscripts according to scientific criteria and to make them usable for other disciplines.
content
At the time of the Reformation, humanism was at the center of the correspondence, which comprised around 6,000 pieces. The Erasmus edition completed by Percy Stafford Allen in 1934 is more or less continued with the Amerbachs' correspondence. Humanistic jurisprudence and university history, including the history of people and publications , occupy a large part of it . It also contains many family and student letters and thus gains significance in terms of social history. It also contains the history of the city of Basel, which in some way replaces the council manuals that were not yet available at the time. Important urban processes are documented and can be identified.
The collection of letters begins around 1480 and ends in the 17th century; its focus is the 16th century, which connects three Amerbach generations: Johannes , Bonifacius and finally Basilius , who founded the collection.
The Amerbachkorrespondenz is a text-critical and commented full-text edition in which, in addition to the well-known protagonists such as Erasmus , Sebastian Münster , Franciscus Hotomanus , etc., lesser-known people from the second row have their say. At the end of the work it is perhaps an Upper Rhine, late humanistic person lexicon of the 16th century.
expenditure
tape | Period | Publishing year | scope |
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I. | 1481-1513 | 1942 | 508 pp. |
II | 1514-1524 | 1943 | 543 pp. |
III | 1525-1530 | 1947 | 590 pp. |
IV | 1531-1536 | 1953 | 514 pp. |
V | 1537-1543 | 1958 | 540 pp. |
VI | 1544-1547 | 1967 | 716 pp. |
VII | 1548-1550 | 1973 | 616 pp. |
VIII | 1551-1552 | 1973 | 468 pp. |
IX / 1 | 1553-1554 | 1982 | 443 pp. |
IX / 2 | 1554-1556 | 1983 | 469 pp. |
X / 1 | 1556-1557 | 1991 | 505 pp. |
X / 2 | 1557-1558 | 1995 | 636 pp. |
XI / 1 | 1559-1560 | 2010 | 640 p. |
XI / 2 | 1560-1562 | 2010 | 704 pp. |
literature
- The Amerbach correspondence , edited and edited on behalf of the Commission for the Public Library of the University of Basel by Alfred Hartmann , [from vol. 6] based on the material collected by Alfred Hartmann, edited and edited by Beat Rudolf Jenny u. a., Vol. 1–11, Verlag der Universitätsbibliothek, Basel 1942–2010, ISBN 978-3-7965-1846-1 , ISBN 978-3-7965-1037-3 . Online (see web links).
swell
- Amerbach correspondence. In: Editions in Basel , accompanying publication to the exhibition Collect, sift, make visible. Editions in Basel. Basel University Library, Basel 2010, pp. 10–11