Saturday, September 19, 2015

Simon Eyssenmann: bibliography v 0.13

Simon Eyssenmann was a Leipzig professor and author of astrological prognostications following in the footsteps of Wenzel Faber and Conrad Tockler. He is all but forgotten today, but there may be some interesting things going on with his work. So here is the start of a bibliography for him, beginning with his practicas and the few relevant items of secondary literature.

Update 0.13
I've added the one non-practica found in VD16 and the two additional contributions to other works.

Update 0.11: Klaus Graf has come up with many additional links for Eyssenmann over at Archivalia. Otherwise, for now I only have time to add one work to which Eyssenmann was a contributor.

Practicas
  1. Practica for 1514. Latin. N.p., n.p. VD16 E 4756.
    Title page only preserved in Zwickau, Ratschulbibliothek.
  2. Practica for 1514. German. Augsburg: Johann Schönsperger. VD16 E 4757.
    Copy in Erlangen UB
  3. Practica for 1514. Low German. Lübeck: Georg Richolff the Elder. VD16 E 4758.
    Described only in BC 551 A.
  4. Practica for 1515. Latin. Leipzig: Wolfgang Stöckel. Not in VD16.
    Wroclaw UB (facsimile)
  5. Practica for 1517. Latin. N.p., n.p. VD16 E 4759.
    Title page only preserved in Zwickau, Ratschulbibliothek.
  6. Practica for 1516. German. Leipzig: Wolfgang Stöckel. Not in VD16.
    Wroclaw UB (facsimile)
  7. Practica for 1516. German. Landshut: Johann Weißenburger. VD16 E 4760.
    If the copy in the British Library is E 4760, then this edition is [8] rather than [4] leaves.
  8. Practica for 1516. German. Nuremberg: Jobst Gutknecht. VD16 E 4761.
  9. Practica for 1517. German. Leipzig: Wolfgang Stöckel. VD16 E 4762.
    Title page only preserved in Zwickau, Ratschulbibliothek.
  10. Practica for 1518. Latin. Leipzig: Jakob Thanner. VD16 ZV 5648.
    Halle ULB (facsimile)
  11. Practica for 1518. German. N.p., n.p. VD16 E 4763. 
  12. Practica for 1519. German. Leipzig: Wolfgang Stöckel. VD16 E 4764.
    Title page only preserved in Zwickau, Ratschulbibliothek.
  13. Practica for 1520. German. Nuremberg: Jobst Gutknecht. VD16 E 4766.
    Munich BSB (facsimile)
  14. Practica for 1520. German. Augsburg: Erhard Oeglin. VD16 E 4765.
    Munich BSB (facsimile)
Others: A Latin practica for 1520 listed in WorldCat (link), with the title "Juditium Lipsense ad annum currentem vigesimum supra millesimum quingentesimum," but with no additional information about a printer or location.

Other works
  1. Euchiridion Arithmetices. Leipzig: Jakob Thanner, 1511. VD16 E 4755.
    Munich BSB (facsimile) and Leipzig UB. This brief treatise on arithmetic begins with a dedication to Conrad Tockler, another Leipzig academic who published practicas for 1504-1514, whom Eyssenmann describes as his teacher. It closes with two additional texts, addressed to Wolfgang Christophorus Udalriuch, son of Udalrich LIndacher of Leipzig, and Conrad Funck of Leipzig, son of Andreas Funck.

Contributions to additional works
  1. Dedication (to Conrad Funck of Leipzig, son of Andreas Funck) in a Latin edition of excerpts from Plutarch's De viris clarissimis liber. Leipzig: Jakob Thanner, 1509. VD16 ZV 12591.
  2. Dedication (to "Simperto Widenman de Schretzen") in an edition of Petrus Gaszowiec's Computus novus. Leipzig: Wolfgang Stöckel, 1514. VD16 P 1863.
  3. Six lines of Latin verse contributed (along with verses from eighteen other intellectuals) to Hieronymous Dungersheim's Confutatio apologetici cuiusdam sacre scripture falso inscripti ad illustrissimum principem Georgium Saxonie ducem. Leipzig: Wolfgang Stöckel, 1514. VD16 D 2947.
    The Munich BSB copy is from the library of Hartmann Schedel.

Secondary literature
  • Eis, Gerhard. "Beiträge zur Spätmittelalterlichen deutschen Prosa aus Handschriften und Frühdrucken." Journal of English and Germanic Philology 52 (1953): 76–89.
  • Zoepfl, Friedrich. "Der Mathematiker und Astrologe Simon Eyssenmann aus Dillingen." Jahrbuch des Historischen Vereins Dillingen an der Donau 61/63 (1961 1959): 86–88.