simon gedik (4 Ergebnisse)

4to. (62) pp., last blank leaf. With woodcut printer's device to title-page. 18th century blue boards. First edition; with autograph inscription by the author, the theologian Simon Gediccius (1551-1631). - The most important literary reaction to the scandalous anonymous anti-feminist polemic, "Disputatio nova contra mulieres, qua probatur eas homines non esse" (no place, 1595; VD 16, ZV 4618), which had denied the humanity of women (and thus their capacity for salvation). The pamphlet sparked a surge of 16th and 17th century satires. The theology department in Wittenberg warned its students against reading the book, while the Leipzig Professor of Hebrew, Simon Gediccus (1551-1631), published an apology of the female sex in which he refutes the pamphlet word for word. - Extremeties bumped, spine damaged, slightly browned throughout due to paper. Autograph inscription by the author to the theologian Michael Geringius of Halle: "Reverendo et doctiss. viro Dn. M. Michaeli Geringio pastori Eccl.ae Halensis ad D. Mauritii etc. ddi. author". Small green bookplate of the Groningen professor of medicine Jacob Baart de la Faille (1795-1867) to verso of the front board, as well as a handwritten note: "Thèse curieuse et fort rare [.]". - Very rare, not in German auction records since 1950. - VD 16, G 652.

4to. (62) pp., last bl. f. With woodcut printer's device on title-page. - (Bound with) II: Admonitio theologicae facultatis in Academia Witebergensi, ad scholasticam iuventutem, de libello famoso & blasphemo recens sparso, cuius titulus est: Disputatio nova contra mulieres, qua ostenditur, eas homines non esse. Wittenberg, Matthäus Welack's widow, 1595. (12) pp. Boards (c. 1900). Edges sprinkled in red. The two most important literary reactions to the scandalous anonymous anti-feminist polemic, "Disputatio nova contra mulieres, qua probatur eas homines non esse" (no place, 1595; VD 16, ZV 4618), which had denied the humanity of women (and thus their capacity for salvation). The pamphlet sparked a surge of 16th and 17th century satires. The theology department in Wittenberg warned its students against reading the book, while the Leipzig Professor of Hebrew, Simon Gediccus (1551-1631), published an apology of the female sex in which he refutes the pamphlet word for word. - Somewhat browned throughout due to paper; ms. note on last leaf. From the collection of the German lawyer Christian Friedrich Eberhard (1753-1818) with his bookplate on the front pastedown. Both works are very rare; neither one in German auction records since 1950. - I: VD 16, G 652. - II: VD 16, W 3701.

12:o. 192 pp. Contemporary calf, spine stamped in blind, slightly worn, foot of spine slightly damaged, signature cut out from lower margin of title-page, old annotations on end-papers, book-plate (Anders Anton von Stiernman). Acidalius suggested in a pamphlet that women were not human. Gedik, a Lutheran scholar published A Defence of Women, first published in the late 16'th century and after that reprinted many times. The above edition contain both pamphlets.

12°, geheel perkament, 191 pag. C2479. Some smudges on the binding and interior due to age. Interesting debate on the status / respect for women as human beings. Gay/Lemonnyer II, 6; Brunet II 759; Graesse II 409. Acidalius (1567-1595) suggereerde in een in 1595 te Leipzig gepubliceerd geschrift dat vrouwen geen mensen waren. Gedik, een Luthers geleerde, publiceerde in 1595 hiertegen een 'verdediging van de vrouw'. In het hier aangeboden boek treft men beide verhandelingen aan.