Sixtus Riessinger

More recent version of Sixtus Riessinger's printer's stamp, from the first volume of Decisiones Rotae Romanae , probably printed in Rome in 1483

Sixtus Riessinger or Rüssinger (* probably in Sulz am Neckar ; † 1506 or later in Strasbourg ) was a clergyman and incunabula printer in Rome and Naples , where he introduced printing in 1471 . He spent his old age in Strasbourg.

life and work

Sixtus Riessinger enrolled in Freiburg on April 1, 1462 . He acquired his Baccalaureus in 1464/1465, but no longer gave Sulz as his place of origin, but Strasbourg. Perhaps in the meantime he had learned the printing trade from Heinrich Eggestein in Strasbourg. From the beginning of February 1465 he was probably already in Rome , where he sought benefices in and near Strasbourg and also received the necessary dispensation from the stigma of illegitimate birth as the son of a priest . Riessinger's first prints do not have a place or a date. In two books printed with his types , including the one that was probably printed first, an edition of the Letters of Jerome ( GW 12420) from around 1467, the name of the printer is also missing. The Bishop of Trent Johannes Hinderbach noted in his copy of Jerome's letters that this book had been printed in Rome. A bull by Paul II dated April 19, 1470 about the jubilee year was probably Riessinger's latest Roman printing work before he moved to Naples.

Riessinger kept in contact with Rome. Together with Adam Rot and several other printers, he received a beneficiary with a preferred date in 1472, namely particularly early in the pontificate of Sixtus IV. In the following years, Riessinger tried to round off his beneficence in and around Strasbourg, but after Adam Rot was ousted from a parish in of the diocese of Metz , Riessinger also tried to obtain this benefice. From around 1471, Sixtus Riessinger then printed in Naples. A focus of his work here was the printing of legal and other works useful for study at the universities in the country or for the administration of the Kingdom of Ferdinand I. From 1474 Riessinger worked together with Francesco Del Tuppo , who from around 1478, after Riessinger's return to Rome, took over the office in Naples. With a German named Georg, whether Georg Lauer or Georg Herolt is controversial in research, Riessinger founded a society in Rome to print books. The last print completed by Riessinger was the first volume of a three-volume edition of the Decisiones rotae Romanae (GW8205).

On September 13, 1483, Riessinger acquired Strasbourg citizenship. Jakob Wimpfeling reported in his work Epitome rerum Germanicarum , composed in 1502 and published in print in 1505 , that Riessinger lived as a priest in Strasbourg. Sixtus Riessinger made his will in 1506, at which time he owned several benefices in Strasbourg, Colmar and the surrounding area. He wished to be buried next to his uncle Petrus Rüssinger († 1482) in the church of Alt St. Peter , where this uncle was a canon in Strasbourg.

literature

Peter Amelung : Riessinger, Sixtus. In: Lexicon of the entire book industry. Second, completely revised edition. Volume 6 (2003) [Delivery 44, published 2001], pp. 312-313.
Peter Amelung: Riessinger (Reissinger, Ruesinger, Ruessinger, Russinger), Sixtus (Sixtus de Argentina, SRDA, Syxtus alemanus). In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 610 f. ( Digitized version ).
J. Braun: Riessinger, Sixtus . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 28, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, pp. 589-591.
Mariano Fava and Giovanni Bresciano: La stampa a Napoli nel XV secolo. Volume 1. Notes and documents. Rudolf Haupt, Leipzig 1911 (Collection of Library Studies, Issue 32), pp. 10–27 archive.org .
Mariano Fava and Giovanni Bresciano: La stampa a Napoli nel XV secolo. Volume 2. Bibliografia. Rudolf Haupt, Leipzig 1912 (Collection of Library Studies, Issue 33), pp. 1–36 archive.org .
Marco Santoro: La Stampa a Napoli nel Quattrocento. Naples 1984 (Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento meridionale. Studi 1).
Piero Scapecchi: Abbozzo per la redazione di una sequence cronologica delle tipografie e delle edizioni romane degli Han e di Riessinger negli anni tra 1466 e 1470. In: Roma nel rinascimento. (1997), pp. 318-326.

Web links

Prints by Sixtus Riessinger in the complete catalog of incandescent prints
Prints by Riessinger in the ISTC
Catalog of the Neapolitan prints of the 15th century, after Marco Santoro (PDF; 429 kB)

Remarks

^ Hermann Mayer: The register of the University of Freiburg i. Br. - from 1460-1656. 1st volume. Introduction and text. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1907, p. 18 No. 39 archive.org .
^ Peter Amelung: The registrum at Eggestein and other Upper Rhine early printers. In: Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 60, 1985, pp. 115–124, here pp. 123–124.
^ Arnold Esch : German early printer in Rome in the registers of Pope Paul II. In: Gutenberg year book. Volume 68, 1993, pp. 44-52, here pp. 49-50; Arnold Esch: German early printers in Rome in the registers of Pope Sixtus IV. In: Mario Ascheri, Gaetano Colli (ed.): Manoscritti, editoria e biblioteche dal medioeva all'età contemporanea. Studi offerti a Domenico Maffei per il suo ottantesimo compleanno. Volume I. Roma nel Rinascimento, Rome 2006, ISBN 88-85913-46-6 , pp. 281-302, here pp. 286-287.
↑ Piero Scapecchi: Abbozzo per la redazione di una sequence cronologica delle tipografie e delle edizioni romane degli Han e di Riessinger negli anni tra 1466 e 1470. In: roma nel rinascimento. (1997), pp. 318-326, here pp. 318-320 and 322.
^ Arnold Esch: German early printer in Rome in the registers of Pope Paul II. In: Gutenberg year book. Volume 68, 1993, pp. 44-52, here pp. 46 and 49-50; Arnold Esch: A special case of the German presence in Rome: The first generation of early German printers according to Vatican sources. In: Knut Schulz (Hrsg.): Handwerk in Europa. From the late Middle Ages to the early modern period. Oldenbourg, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-486-56395-5 (Schriften des Historischen Kollegs. Kolloquien 41), pp. 27–32, here pp. 30–31 doi: 10.1524 / 9783486594423.27 ; Arnold Esch: Early German printers in Rome in the registers of Pope Sixtus IV. In: Mario Ascheri, Gaetano Colli (ed.): Manoscritti, editoria e biblioteche dal medioeva all'età contemporanea. Volume I. Rome 2006, pp. 281-302, here pp. 386-387.
↑ Paola Farenga: Del Tuppo, Francesco. In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 38. Rome 1990, pp. 317-321.
↑ Jakob Wimpfeling: Epithoma Germanorum. Johann Prüss , Strasbourg 1505, sheet 39 recto .
^ Francis Rapp : Les clercs souabes dans le diocèse de Strasbourg à la veille de la Réforme. In: Kaspar Elm, Eberhard Gönner, Eugen Hillenbrand (eds.): State history and intellectual history. Festschrift for Otto Herding on his 65th birthday. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-17-004362-5 (Publications of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Series B, Research, Volume 92), pp. 265–278, here pp. 276–277; Francis Rapp: Clergy and Illegitimacy in the Diocese of Strasbourg (1449–1523). In: Ludwig Schmugge (Ed.): Illegitimacy in the late Middle Ages. Oldenbourg, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-486-56069-7 (Schriften des Historischen Kollegs. Kolloquien 29), pp. 227-237, here p. 235 doi: 10.1524 / 9783486594294.227 .

personal data
SURNAME	Riessinger, Sixtus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Rüssinger, Sixtus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Incunabula printer
DATE OF BIRTH	before 1450
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sulz am Neckar
DATE OF DEATH	after 1506
Place of death	Strasbourg

[1] Hermann Mayer: The register of the University of Freiburg i. Br. - from 1460-1656. 1st volume. Introduction and text. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1907, p. 18 No. 39 archive.org .

[2] Peter Amelung: The registrum at Eggestein and other Upper Rhine early printers. In: Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 60, 1985, pp. 115–124, here pp. 123–124.

[3] Arnold Esch : German early printer in Rome in the registers of Pope Paul II. In: Gutenberg year book. Volume 68, 1993, pp. 44-52, here pp. 49-50; Arnold Esch: German early printers in Rome in the registers of Pope Sixtus IV. In: Mario Ascheri, Gaetano Colli (ed.): Manoscritti, editoria e biblioteche dal medioeva all'età contemporanea. Studi offerti a Domenico Maffei per il suo ottantesimo compleanno. Volume I. Roma nel Rinascimento, Rome 2006, ISBN 88-85913-46-6 , pp. 281-302, here pp. 286-287.

[4] Piero Scapecchi: Abbozzo per la redazione di una sequence cronologica delle tipografie e delle edizioni romane degli Han e di Riessinger negli anni tra 1466 e 1470. In: roma nel rinascimento. (1997), pp. 318-326, here pp. 318-320 and 322.

[5] Arnold Esch: German early printer in Rome in the registers of Pope Paul II. In: Gutenberg year book. Volume 68, 1993, pp. 44-52, here pp. 46 and 49-50; Arnold Esch: A special case of the German presence in Rome: The first generation of early German printers according to Vatican sources. In: Knut Schulz (Hrsg.): Handwerk in Europa. From the late Middle Ages to the early modern period. Oldenbourg, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-486-56395-5 (Schriften des Historischen Kollegs. Kolloquien 41), pp. 27–32, here pp. 30–31 doi: 10.1524 / 9783486594423.27 ; Arnold Esch: Early German printers in Rome in the registers of Pope Sixtus IV. In: Mario Ascheri, Gaetano Colli (ed.): Manoscritti, editoria e biblioteche dal medioeva all'età contemporanea. Volume I. Rome 2006, pp. 281-302, here pp. 386-387.

[6] Paola Farenga: Del Tuppo, Francesco. In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 38. Rome 1990, pp. 317-321.

[7] Jakob Wimpfeling: Epithoma Germanorum. Johann Prüss , Strasbourg 1505, sheet 39 recto .

[8] Francis Rapp : Les clercs souabes dans le diocèse de Strasbourg à la veille de la Réforme. In: Kaspar Elm, Eberhard Gönner, Eugen Hillenbrand (eds.): State history and intellectual history. Festschrift for Otto Herding on his 65th birthday. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-17-004362-5 (Publications of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Series B, Research, Volume 92), pp. 265–278, here pp. 276–277; Francis Rapp: Clergy and Illegitimacy in the Diocese of Strasbourg (1449–1523). In: Ludwig Schmugge (Ed.): Illegitimacy in the late Middle Ages. Oldenbourg, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-486-56069-7 (Schriften des Historischen Kollegs. Kolloquien 29), pp. 227-237, here p. 235 doi: 10.1524 / 9783486594294.227 .