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Dietrich GRESEMUND

Theoderici Gresemundi iunioris Moguntini lucubraciuncule bonarum septem artium liberalium apologiam eiusdemque cum philosophia dialogum et orationem ad rerum publicarum rectores in se complectentes

Peter von Friedberg, Mainz (Mayence) 1494, petit in-4 (14x20,5cm), (41 f.) a-f6 g5 (feuillet g6 blanc manquant), relié.

First edition. Gothic printing; 35 lines per page. A rare printed texts by Peter von Friedberg who exercised as from 1493 to 1498 in Mainz, birthplace of the printing press. A copy recorded in the library of Cambridge, a library of Bavaria, another at the German National Library.
Translation of title: "Small dissertations containing the apology of seven good liberal arts, as well as dialogue between the author and the philosophy and speech to the magistrates of public affairs."
Colophon: Impressum nobili in ciuitate Moguntina per Petrum Fridbergensem Anno virginei partus. Mr. cccc. xciiij.

Binding open old soft vellum, many ex-donos pen dating from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries on the title page and top margin of the second sheet. Few pages slightly stained.

Apology and praise classic appearance of the seven liberal arts, the first work of the young wife Gresemund reflection on own teaching in his time, and beyond it, the great attempt to overhaul and revolution of monasticism, whose will was always to be the teacher of Europe. Monasticism was indeed for very many centuries after ancient times, not only the center and repository of knowledge, but the heir of the ancient teaching and hence that of the liberal arts, namely language arts ( trivium: grammar, dialectic and rhetoric ...) arts and mathematics (quadrivium: arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music ...). This legacy was upset by the establishment of universities in the thirteenth, and the expansion of the liberal arts philosophy, especially Aristotle and Averoes. The fifteenth century was the scene of the last revolution of monasticism - and Benedictine abbot Johannes Tritheim, one of his craftsmen - final jolt before the agony caused in particular by the Reformation. It is unclear whether Tritheim and Gresemund were dating, but they both had the same publisher and the book is dedicated to the first Gresemund. Far from being a scholarly book, written in the form of an interview between a polemicist Aristobolus, and a defender, Chiron, text, composed of seven parts (like the seven liberal arts) deploys fine demonstration of the usefulness of the liberal arts in education; the first interview on grammar was also due to the redeployment of teaching; we also note the fifth interview on music, which, if it is a poor description of musical science exposes the moral and medical properties of music. The book was quickly appreciated by a humanist circle revolving around Tritheim Johannes (Jacob Winpheling, Jodocus Badius Conrad Celtis) which had already published at Peter Friedberg testing monasticism and the question of education. For this work, Gresemund claimed membership in a movement and a thought embodied by many German humanists, including the Abbot of Sponheim, Johannes Tritheim was already a known representative.

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