{"id":254,"date":"2013-04-02T19:47:56","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T19:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/?p=254"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:20:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:20:02","slug":"two-new-16th-century-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2013\/04\/02\/two-new-16th-century-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Two new 16th century books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the spring of 2013, Special Collections purchased two 16th century German books: Johann Schradin&#8217;s <em>Expostulation (<\/em>Augsburg, 1546) and David Chytraeus&#8217;s<em> Historia der Augspurgischen Confession<\/em> (Rostock, 1576).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2013\/04\/schrader.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-255 alignleft\" alt=\"schrader\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2013\/04\/schrader-300x140.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2013\/04\/schrader-300x140.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2013\/04\/schrader-1024x480.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2013\/04\/schrader-624x292.jpg 624w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2013\/04\/schrader.jpg 1158w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>According to Blackwell Books in London (the dealer who sold us these books), the <em>Expostulation<\/em> is a poem about Ariovistus, Arminius, Barbarossa, and Georg von Frundsberg visiting the author in a dream. Perhaps of interest to book studies folks, two of its pages didn&#8217;t print properly and someone added the missing text in manuscript. This image shows the manuscript text on the verso of leaf 9.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2013\/04\/chytraeus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-257\" alt=\"chytraeus\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2013\/04\/chytraeus-207x300.jpg\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2013\/04\/chytraeus-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2013\/04\/chytraeus-708x1024.jpg 708w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2013\/04\/chytraeus-624x901.jpg 624w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2013\/04\/chytraeus.jpg 2013w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2013\/04\/chytraeus-clasps.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-258\" alt=\"chytraeus clasps\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2013\/04\/chytraeus-clasps-112x300.jpg\" width=\"112\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2013\/04\/chytraeus-clasps-112x300.jpg 112w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2013\/04\/chytraeus-clasps-382x1024.jpg 382w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2013\/04\/chytraeus-clasps-624x1670.jpg 624w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2013\/04\/chytraeus-clasps.jpg 1086w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 112px) 100vw, 112px\" \/><\/a>The Chytraeus has a contemporary pigskin binding with working clasps. A history of the Augsburg Confession, the text was translated into many languages and frequently reprinted after it first appeared in 1576. Our copy has marginalia from at least one previous owner and a rebacked spine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the spring of 2013, Special Collections purchased two 16th century German books: Johann Schradin&#8217;s Expostulation (Augsburg, 1546) and David Chytraeus&#8217;s Historia der Augspurgischen Confession (Rostock, 1576). According to Blackwell Books in London (the dealer who sold us these books), the Expostulation is a poem about Ariovistus, Arminius, Barbarossa, and Georg von Frundsberg visiting the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenanigans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3q4oW-46","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}