LYSCHANDER (Claus Christoffersen). Synopsis historiarum Dani - Lot 126

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LYSCHANDER (Claus Christoffersen). Synopsis historiarum Dani - Lot 126
LYSCHANDER (Claus Christoffersen). Synopsis historiarum Danicarum. En fort summa offuer den Danske Historia Fra Verdens Begyndelse til Neruerendis oc nu Regerendis Stormectige Førstis Herr Christian den Fierdis Danmarckis, Norgis, Vendis ut Gottis &c. Konnings tid oc Regemente Forfatted udi de Danske Kongers Slectebog (.) Kisbenhaffn [Copenhagen], Henrich Waldkirch, 1622. Small folio of [1] f. title, XXV, 8, [8], 706, [2] pp. Period ivory vellum, smooth spine, title, place and date handwritten on the spine (modern endpapers). Old manuscript biographical note on the author in Latin in fine. Paper restorations in the margins of the title page. First edition of this rare work by the Danish poet and historiographer Claus Christoffersen Lyschander (1579-1623). "Claus Christopherson Lyschander (1558-1624), appointed historiographer in 1616, did not find favour in the eyes of posterity. An unscrupulous propagandist, he formed many projects but achieved only a few. Like Vedel [the priest and historian Anders Sørensen Vedel (1542-1616), to whom we owe the translation of Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum into Danish in 1575 as well as the publication of the famous collection of one hundred Danish ballads "Hundredvisebogen" in 1591], but without possessing the gifts of his predecessor, he militated in favour of a popular history written in Danish. (...) The only work of any importance that he published, 'De danske Kongers Sloegtebog' (1622), gives a panorama of the history of Denmark from Adam (!) to Christian IV. Writing history as a fable, amalgamating the Old Testament and Saxo [Saxo Grammaticus (Saxon the Grammairian, c. 1150 - c. 1220), a monk and historian of the Danish medieval period, author of the sixteen books of a history of the Danes: the Gesta Danorum (the Gesture of the Danes), considered a true masterpiece of medieval literature and a major source of information concerning Nordic mythology and the history of Denmark], he has thus succeeded in
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