Wickiana

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The Wickiana is one of the most important news collections of single-sheet prints and illustrated leaflets of the 16th century. The testimonies form one of the most interesting archives of the epoch. Johann Jakob Wick (1522–1588), to whom the collection owes its name, was pastor at the Predigerkirche in Zurich from 1552 to 1557 and then canon and second archdeacon at the Grossmünster . From 1559 to 1588 he compiled current documents chronologically. Wick incorporated other materials from around 1505 to 1559 into his collection .

The collection is bound in 24 folio volumes . After Wick's death in 1588, the collection ended up in the monastery library of the Grossmünster and in 1836 in the Zurich city library. In addition to a large number of prints from German-speaking countries, there are also 52 foreign-language copies. A large number of the sheets come from such important centers of printing as Augsburg, Nuremberg and Strasbourg. In images and text, the prints report, among other things, natural events - comets, earthquakes or floods -, freak births, crimes, historical events and much more. For example, the comet of 1577 was described as "terrible and wonderful". The collection can be understood as a reflex to the crisis awareness in a time of denominational and political uncertainty. Huldrych Zwingli saw the end of the world imminent. The news may have been interpreted by Wick and his contemporaries as a harbinger of the Last Judgment .

  • grasshopper

  • The monk Bastian Hegner fell to his death on November 10, 1561 in Rapperswil

  • A small child is attacked and killed by a pig in Maschwanden

  • In Geneva , two monks are flogged for fraud

  • The Great Comet over Prague , November 12, 1577

Duration

The collection's holdings total 439 prints, 429 of which belong to the original collection and 10 were added later. In 1925, prints and drawings were removed from the manuscript books of Johann Jacob Wick and placed in the graphic collection of the Zurich Central Library . A notable collection has remained in the manuscript department of the Zurich Central Library.

literature

  • Barbara Bauer: The crisis of the Reformation. Johann Jacob Wicks Chronicle of extraordinary natural and heavenly phenomena . In: Wolfgang Harms and Alfred Messerli (eds.): History of perception and discourse of knowledge in the illustrated leaflet of the early modern period (1450–1700) . Basel 2002, pp. 193-236.
  • Wolfgang Harms, Michael Schilling (Ed.): The Wickiana. The collection of the Zurich Central Library . Tübingen 1997-2005. (Annotated Edition, Part I / II (German Illustrated Leaflets of the 16th Century, Volume 6/7))
  • Ricarda Huch : The Wicksche collection of leaflets and newspaper news in the Zurich City Library . Zurich 1895 ( archive.org )
  • Franz Mauelshagen: Wunderkammer on paper. The "Wickiana" between Reformation and popular belief (Early Modern Research, Volume 15). Epfendorf 2011.
  • Wiebke Schwarte: Northern Lights. Your representation in the Wickiana. Munster 1999.
  • Matthias Senn: The Wickiana. Johann Jakob Wick's news collection from the 16th century. Texts and images for the years 1560 to 1571 . Küsnacht 1975.
  • Bruno Weber (Ed.): Wunderzeichen und Winkeldrucker 1543–1586. Single-sheet prints from the Wikiana collection in the Zurich Central Library . Dietikon 1972.

Web links

Commons : Wickiana  - collection of images, videos and audio files