BUSCHIUS, Hermannus.

Rare incunable: the first edition of the juvenile poetry of an important humanist and pupil of Hegius from Westphalia, Carmina [tumultuaria (with additions by Rudolphus Langius and Alexander Hegius)].

      Richard Paffraet, between 21 June 1491 and 2 Dec. 1497; before 1496?)., (Deventer, - 4to. 19th century marbled boards. (34) lvs., last page blank. Collation: a8, b4, c6, d4, e8, f4. Original edition of this collection of the early Neo-Latin poems by Hermannus Buschius Monasteriensis (from Münster), or Hermann von dem Busche (Sassenburg, east of Münster in Westphalen, 1468 - Dulmen 1534). Of noble birth, Buschius was sent on an early age to Münster, where he received his first instruction from Prof. Rudolph von Langen (or Langius), a relative who sent him after some time to Deventer to study with the famous Alexander Hegius. Later on, in 1481, he studied also in Heidelberg with Agricola. He was an ardent follower of the new humanistic and renaissance ideas and ideals and after a long journey to Italy where he studied in Rome and Bologne until 1491, he taught at many German and Dutch Latin Schools (such as Münster, Osnabrück, Hamburg, Wesel, Alkmaar), and Universities (Cologne, Greifswald, Wittenberg (1502), Leipzig (1503), Marburg: professor 1527-1533) as a so-called 'Wanderlehrer. Returned to Cologne Buschius emerged as one of the leading spokesmen in defence of Reuchlin, whose Augenspiegel had been declared to be heretical. He had also friendly relations with Erasmus for almost ten years. Erasmus printed f.e. with his Querela pacis two od Buschius' elegies dealing with the destruction caused by war. His most important work is the Vallum humanitatis, a defence of humanism. At the diet of Worms in 1521 Buschius joined Hutten and his friends in their stand for Luther and he was the main advocate of the Lutheran view at the public discussion in Münster in 1533, opposing the Anabaptist heresies of Bernhard Rothmann. The booklet starts with a laudatory poem by Rudolphus Langius, a laudatory poem by Buschius for Johannes Ostendorpius, and a letter of Buschius to Alexander Hegius, dedicating his two books of poetry to him. Two further laudatory poems by Hegius conclude the book. Very good copy with neat contemporary manuscript annotation on f. a2; from the famous library of Georgius Kloss (see the Catalogue of the library of Dr. Kloss, including many original and unpublished manuscripts and printed books with ms. annotations by Philippus Melanchton. Auction catalogue, London, Sotheby's, 1835). This rich collection was built on the collections of Johannes von Dalberg, bishop of Worms (d. 1503), Adelmann von Adelmannsted and the Church library of Esslingen.- (Some faint marginal staining at places). ILC 494; IDL 1088 (only 1 copy in Dutch public libraries: RL, The Hague); IPLC 494; Campbell 389; Hain-Copinger* 4157; GW 5797; IBP 1341; IGI 2279, Polain Belge 943; Voullième (B) 4856; GfT 1389; not in Goff; Contemp. of Erasmus 1, pp. 233-4. [Attributes: Hard Cover]