Piderit - [ERSTAUSGABE] Chronicon Lippiae - 1627

[FIRST EDITION, Chronicon Lippe Chronicle, genealogy]

Johannes Piderit:
“Comitatus chronicon Lippiae”
1627

The Chronicle “Comitatus chronicon Lippiae” by the Lippe-born humanist and educator Ioannes Pideritius, printed in 1627, offers a history of the County of Lippe in a humanistically Latin form, from its legendary beginnings to the early modern period. Pideritius combines older, partly genealogical-legendary traditions with events that can be documented by records, and places particular emphasis on the origin and consolidation of the rule of the Lords and Counts of Lippe. He traces the origins, marriage connections, and territorial succession of the Lippe dynasty and places them within the broader framework of the Empire.

Structurally, the work is divided into chronologically successive sections with concise annalistic entries that record important political events, feuds, alliances as well as ecclesiastical foundations and privileges. Characteristic is the attempt to organize regional history according to the standards of the then-modern scholarly historiography, with source criticism, yet without completely abandoning older traditional material and local memories. Thus, a picture of the County of Lippe emerges that aims to strengthen both dynastic legitimacy and a Lippe-specific historical consciousness. The Chronicle thus became a foundational reference text for later Lippe regional history writing and genealogical work.

32x20.5 cm. 667 pages. New hardcover. Internal pages somewhat browned with minimal worm tracks on the outer edge. Otherwise very well preserved. Instead of pages 625-29, blank leaves are bound in.