Matthew Brandis

Matthäus Brandis (* Delitzsch ; † after 1512) was a German book printer who worked in Lübeck and Denmark .

Life

Matthäus Brandis was one of the brothers of the printer Lucas Brandis . The family comes from the small town of Delitzsch near Leipzig. In the trade fair city, Matthäus was also trained as a printer, probably in the office of his brother Marcus Brandis . Then he went to Lübeck , where he was first documented in 1484; his first prints in Lübeck date back to 1485. From 1487 he had his own workshop in the free imperial and Hanseatic city, in which he also worked for the "poppy head printing" of Hans van Ghetelen . It can be traced here up to 1500. In 1497 he worked with his brother Lukas on a breviary for the Danish diocese of Odense. Four years later, he finally moved to Denmark and printed in the Jutland episcopal town of Ribe. In 1503 he returned shortly, if at all, to Lübeck, where his house was under compulsory administration. He printed in Ribe in 1504 and then continued his activities in Copenhagen in 1506 , where the Missale Hafniense appeared in 1510 , which was not intended as a missal for Copenhagen but for the diocese of Roskilde . The last news about an executed print job to him is from the year 1512. His types were taken over by a new workshop opened in 1513. Peter Brandis - presumably Matthew's son - printed in Copenhagen in 1528.

Works

In Lübeck

• Imitatio Christi by Thomas von Kempen , Lübeck 1485
• Chronica Slavica (Latin version / Middle Low German version)

( Digital copy of the Latin copy from the Bavarian State Library )

( Digital copy of the Latin copy from the Anna Amalia Library )

Edition: Ernst Adolf Theodor Laspeyres : Chronicon Slavicum quod vulgo dicitur parochi Suselensis. Lübeck 1865 ( digitized version )

• Lucidarius in Middle Low German
• the Jyske Lov , 1486
• the missal for Lübeck ( Missale Lubicense ) on behalf of Bishop Albert II. Krummendiek , 1486

Digitized copy of the Lübeck City Library, I.-K. 877

• Van der Pestilencien around 1486
• a dance of death in Middle Low German , 1487
• Jacobus de Jüterbog : De valore et utilitate missarum pro defunctis Daran: Johannes de Mechlinia: Determinatio (around 1493), ( digital copy of the copy from the Bavarian State Library)

In Odense

• Missal for Odense
• de denscke kroneke as a Low German extract from the Gesta Danorum of the Saxo Grammaticus

In Ribe

• the Jyske Lov ( jütisches law) in Latin and Danish

Copenhagen

• Missale Hafniense, 1510
• Katolsk Haandbog, around 1510

literature

• Ursula Altmann: The achievements of the book printer named Brandis in the context of the book history of the 15th century . Dissertation, Humboldt University Berlin, 1974 ( text as PDF file )
• Ferdinand Geldner:  Brandis, Matthaeus. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 526 ( digitized version ).
• Dieter Lohmeier: Brandis, Matthäus. In: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck. Volume 10, Neumünster 1994, ISBN 3-529-02650-6 , pp. 56-58

Web links

Wikisource: Matthäus Brandis  - Sources and full texts

• Prints by Matthäus Brandis in the complete catalog of incandescent prints