# Serenissimi Potentissimiq[ue] Principis ac Domini, Dn. Mauritii, Ducis Saxoniae, Iuliae, Cliviae ac Montium, &c. Landgravii Thuringiae, […] Informatori Fidelissimo, Dn. Johanni Schelio, SS. Theologiae Candidato, nec non Linguarium Orientalium peritissimo, Sponso, Cum Lectissima […] Matrona Barbara Moseriana, Viri […] Dn. M. Nicolai Bohemi, Pastoris Ecclesiae Montanae aput Ilenburgenses […] relicta vidua, Sponsa, die VI. M. Septembris, matrimonium Torgae contrahenti […] L. Andreas Bawer/ S. Ling. Profes. & D. Nicol. Lipsiae Archidiaconuns



**Autore:** Bauer Andreas

**Dati editoriali:** Leipzig, Johann Albrecht Mintzel, 1636

**Codice archivio:** 172

**Prezzo:** 780.00 USD

**Stato commerciale:** Disponibile

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## Descrizione accademica e analisi

Broadsheet (348x241 mm) printed on recto only. Text in Greek, Latin and Hebrew printed within a woodcut border. Traces of folding, inner margin anciently reinforced at the verso, some light foxing, very well preserved. Extremely rare academic wedding publication composed by Andreas Bauer for the marriage of Johannes Schelius and Barbara Moser, celebrated at Torgau on 6 September 1636. The pamphlet belongs to the rich early modern German tradition of occasional printing, in which marriages, academic promotions and funerals were commemorated through privately circulated Latin verse and learned encomia. The author was a Lutheran theologian and Hebraist closely connected with the University and Nikolaikirche of Leipzig. After studying at Leipzig from 1607, he taught at the Nicolaischule and subsequently entered the ministry, becoming Archdeacon of St Nicholas in 1629. He held the Leipzig professorship of Hebrew from 1634 to 1637 and thereafter became Professor of Theology, thus belonging to the generation of Lutheran scholars for whom the study of Hebrew and the Oriental languages formed an essential foundation of biblical philology. The bridegroom, Johannes Schelius, is explicitly described on the title-page as a candidate in theology and Linguarum Orientalium peritissimus, “highly skilled in the Oriental languages.” He is also identified as the faithful tutor (“informator”) of Prince Moritz of Saxony, the future Duke Moritz of Saxe-Zeitz. The publication therefore documents a particularly suggestive intersection between Lutheran theology, Oriental philology and princely education in seventeenth-century Saxony. This connection is especially noteworthy because Bauer himself was then teaching Hebrew at Leipzig. Although a direct master-pupil relationship between Bauer and Schelius cannot presently be demonstrated, the pamphlet clearly arose within the same learned milieu in which command of Hebrew and other Oriental languages was cultivated as an indispensable tool for scriptural scholarship. The bride, Barbara Moser, is identified as the widow of Magister Nicolaus Bohemus, formerly pastor of the Ecclesia Montana near Eilenburg. The elaborate naming of her former husband, Schelius’s theological credentials and his position at the Saxon court reflects the strongly prosopographical character of seventeenth-century occasional literature, in which marriage publications also functioned as records of academic, ecclesiastical and patronage networks. Printed at Leipzig by Johann Albrecht Mintzel, the work is a characteristic product of the highly developed university printing culture of the city during the Thirty Years’ War. Such occasional pieces were normally intended for immediate circulation among relatives, colleagues, university scholars and courtly connections rather than for the commercial book market, which helps explain their frequently low survival rate. The publication is therefore of interest not merely as an epithalamium, but as a small documentary witness to the intellectual networks surrounding Hebrew and Oriental studies at Leipzig, the education of the Saxon princely house, and the social culture of Lutheran scholarship in the 1630s.

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## Bibliografia di riferimento

Jöcher, I, col. 360; VD17, 3:668186C (1 copy in Halle).

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