JOHANNES MAGNUS. Historia... de omnibus Gothorvm Sveonumqve regibus... Romae (apud Ioannem Mariam de Viottis) 1554. Folio (292x199 mms). (60), 1-787 (3) pp. Lacking last blank leaf. Title with woodcut papal armour, 1 full page woodcut map of Scandinavia, 2 full page woodcut printer's devices, illustrated with many woodcuts in text. Contemporary soft vellum, worn and soiled, lacking bands, minor manuscript notes on cover and manuscript title on spine, title also written in manuscript on lower edge. Slightly foxed and with dampstaining to margins mostly at the end, in the beginning and at the end including title, the margins with tears (due to damp). First edition. Photo. Collijn II:210-16. First edition which was edited by the author's brother, Olaus Magnus This famous history was written in Venice in 1540, where the author was then living as a Catholic refugee - he had left Sweden in 1526. In it, the Gothic romantic conception of Sweden as the "vagina gentium", the idea of Jordanes, 6th century chronicler of the Goths, is developed in a history of Swedish kings both at home and abroad leading the migrating peoples. This conception was the leading ideology of Swedish patriotism in the 17th century, when the text was translated into Swedish (1620). (Sten G. Lindberg, Swedish Books 1280-1967, page 16.)
JOHANNES MAGNUS. Historia... de omnibus Gothorvm Sveonumqve regibus... Romae (apud Ioannem Mariam de Viottis) 1554. Folio (292x199 mms). (60), 1-787 (3) pp. Lacking last blank leaf. Title with woodcut papal armour, 1 full page woodcut map of Scandinavia, 2 full page woodcut printer's devices, illustrated with many woodcuts in text. Contemporary soft vellum, worn and soiled, lacking bands, minor manuscript notes on cover and manuscript title on spine, title also written in manuscript on lower edge. Slightly foxed and with dampstaining to margins mostly at the end, in the beginning and at the end including title, the margins with tears (due to damp). First edition. Photo. Collijn II:210-16. First edition which was edited by the author's brother, Olaus Magnus This famous history was written in Venice in 1540, where the author was then living as a Catholic refugee - he had left Sweden in 1526. In it, the Gothic romantic conception of Sweden as the "vagina gentium", the idea of Jordanes, 6th century chronicler of the Goths, is developed in a history of Swedish kings both at home and abroad leading the migrating peoples. This conception was the leading ideology of Swedish patriotism in the 17th century, when the text was translated into Swedish (1620). (Sten G. Lindberg, Swedish Books 1280-1967, page 16.)
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