Crone corners of the Sassen

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From the chronicle: Illustration of the city of Braunschweig , enthroned above it on the top right, its patron saint, Saint Author (“Sanctus Author”). In the foreground two knights of the lily events .
Woodcut illustration from the Chronicle
Colophon of the printer Peter Schöffer

The Cronecken der Sassen or Sachsenchronik by Cord Bote or Hermann Bote from 1492 is the last large printed work from the office of Peter Schöffer , Johannes Gutenberg's employee from the very beginning . It is written in Middle Low German and extensively illustrated.

Background and content

The chronicle of the Sassen is illustrated with 1,255 woodcuts and is therefore also referred to as the “Lower Saxony Picture Chronicle ” or “Cronicon picturatum”. Both Cord Bote and his relative Hermann Bote are possible authors of this work. It is written in East Westphalian Low German, the author is not named. It is very close to the writings of Hermann Bote (for example the Braunschweig World Chronicle ) both through its Brunswick-East Westphalian language form and its content . The chronicle combines elements of a world chronicle with the regional, diocesan and city histories of Saxon history up to the year 1489. It is about the Welf rule formations or the Ascanian duchies, the Mark Brandenburg and the monasteries in Bremen, Halberstadt, Hildesheim, Lübeck and Magdeburg reports. Furthermore, there are records of the founding of cities, dioceses or orders, genealogical sequences of noble families or bishops' catalogs. The heroic deeds of the princes, fought battles, sieges or unrest, epidemics or local traditions are also reproduced. Also characteristic are the basic data based on biblical world chronicles on the history of creation, the fall of man, but also Saxon legends and tribal origins. The "coat of arms" shown on the title woodcut shows the historical importance of the Guelphs and Ascanians for the historiography of the Old Saxon region.

expenditure

Processing (selection)

This chronicle is regarded as the source of further writings or later revisions and additions.

  • Albert Krantz : Saxonia . Cologne 1520, OCLC 43090544 .
  • Conrad Botho, Johann Pomarius , Siegfried Saccus : Chronica of the Saxons and Lower Saxony from the beginning of the world to anhero. ... Until this time continued ... By M. Johannem Pomarium ... With a preface by D. Sigfridi Sacci. Zacharias Krafft, Wittenberg 1588, OCLC 795144163 .
  • Conrad Bote, Johann Baumgart: Chronica der Sachsen and Nidersachsen in which it is diligently described what happened from the beginning of the world to anhero ... happened ... with ...; Figures adorned ... until this time Continuiret ... composed and described. Johann Francken, Magdeburg 1589, OCLC 724078878 .
  • Cyriacus Spangenberg : Saxon Chronica. Frankfurt a. M. 1585, OCLC 165859580 (on- line ).

literature

  • Reinmar Walter Fuchs: The Mainz early prints with bookwood cuts 1480–1500. In: Archives for the history of the book industry. 2/1960, pp. 1–129 (on "Chronecken": p. 6, no. 16 and p. 106ff.)
  • Brigitte Funke: Cronecken the sassen. Draft and success of a Saxon conception of history at the transition from the Middle Ages to the modern age. (= Braunschweiger Werkstücke. 104. Series A. Publications from the city archive and the city library; Volume 48), (Zugl.:, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Dissertation 2000), Braunschweig 2001, ISBN 3-9806341-3-2 .
  • Cornelia Schneider: Konrad Botho. Chronecken of the Sassen. In: Gutenberg: Aventur and Art. From the secret company to the first media revolution, catalog for the exhibition of the city of Mainz on the occasion of the 600th birthday of Johannes Gutenberg, April 14 to October 3, 2000, published by the city of Mainz, Mainz 2000, p. 379 (catalog number GM 195) ISBN 3- 87439-507-3 .
  • Eberhard Rohse : Bote, Cord (Konrad). In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Dieter Lent et al. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 8th to 18th century . Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 100 f .

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Eberhard Rohse: Bote, Cord (Konrad). In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Dieter Lent et al. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 8th to 18th century . Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 100 f .