Wickiana

The Wickiana one of the foremost collections of broadsheets and news of illustrated leaflets of the 16th century. The monuments are one of the most interesting era archives. Johann Jakob Wick (1522-1588), the collection takes its name, was from 1552 to 1557 pastor at the church preacher in Zurich and then Canons and second Archdeacon on Grossmünsterplatz. He wore 1559-1588 current evidence chronologically. Additional materials from the period circa 1505 to 1559 was divided Wick a his collectanea.

The collection is bound in 24 folio volumes. After the death Wicks 1588, the collection was in the monastery library of the cathedral and in 1836 in the city library of Zurich. Besides a large number of prints from the German speaking also 52 foreign-language copies can be reported. A variety of music comes from such important centers of printing such as Augsburg, Nuremberg and Strasbourg. Images and Text report prints, among other natural phenomena - comets, earthquakes or floods - from birth defects, crime, historical events and more. For example, the comet of 1577 was described as " horrible and wunderbarlich ". The collection can be understood as a response to the crisis consciousness in an era of confessional and political uncertainty. Huldrych Zwingli saw the end of the world imminent. The messages were likely to be interpreted by Wick and his contemporaries as harbingers of the Last Judgment.

The monks Bastian Hegner falls on November 10, 1561 Rapperswil to death

A toddler is attacked and killed in Maschwanden of a pig

In Geneva, two monks flogged for fraud

The Great Comet Over Prague, November 12, 1577

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439 prints, of which 429 belong to the original collection, 10 were added later. 1925 prints and drawings have been extracted from the manuscript books of Johann Jacob Wick and spent in the Graphic Collection of the Zurich Central Library. A well-known inventory remaining in the Manuscript Department of the Central Library Zurich.