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Melanchtons Briefwechsel
Band 9: Addenda und Konkordanzen
Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt [Frommann-Holzboog] 1998 (published 1999)
403 p.
ISBN: 3-7728-1972-9
Series:Melanchthons Briefwechsel. - Kritische und kommentierte Gesamtausgabe / Regesten ; 9
Price: DEM 432 (= ca. EUR 220)
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This title was reviewed by: Heinrich C. Kuhn of "Institut für Geistesgeschichte und Philosophie der Renaissance (München)"
Item arrived at GGREN on:1999-03-15
Review was finished on:1999-03-30
pp. 73-183 contain more than 250 entries for datable letters the regesta for which were not yet incorporated in volumes 1 to 8 of the "Regesten". The order is by date; the structure of the entries is (mutatis mutandis) the same as for the first part of the Addenda. The sources used to establish these entries go up the "official" year of the publication of this volume: 1998 [!] and demonstrate the meticulous care of the authors; where applicable hints by correspondents of the authors' are acknowledged. At least part of these new entries is rather spectacular: e.g. Letters to M. by King Christian of Denmark (p. 131, No. 2903a) and by crownprince Erik of Sweden (p. 183, No. 9301a).
pp. 185 - 263 are addenda et corrigenda for regesta published in volumes 1 to 8. They correct typographic and other errors, and add locations for letters, indications of recently published literature, plus various other information (in some cases including new abstracts).
pp. 267 - 403 contain concordances between the "older" editions of M.'s correspondence and the numbers of the items in Scheible's edition: editions covered are: the Corpus reformatorum volumes, the Supplementa Melanchthoniana, Stupperich's Melanchthons Werke in Auswahl, Bindseil's additions to CR (" Philippi Melanchthonis Epistolae, iudicia, consilia, testimonia aliorumque ad eum epistolae quae in Corpore Reformatorum desiderantur ... ), Krause's Melanthoniana and the Weimar edition of Luther's works. The "direction" of the concordances is: "older" edition --->
Scheible's edition.
It is possible to work with these concordances (and in the cases where I checked there where no errors), but: for each of these editions in the concordance the column-title for the first volume of the edition is replaced by the column-title of the last volume of this edition. The publisher warns about this with a note glued to p. 266, and no great harm is done, but: a volume costing more than EUR 200 and especially a volume containing so fine scholarly work would have better been spared such maculæ: not to reset the faulty pages prior to publication in a case like this: this has been a definitely inappropriate decision.
Author1: Scheible, Heinz Author2: Thüringer, Walter (Neben-Autor/in) Author3: Kemnitzer, Christa (adi.) Author4: Author5: Author5: main Title: Melanchtons Briefwechsel subtitle: Band 9: Addenda und Konkordanzen edition: series: Melanchthons Briefwechsel. - Kritische und kommentierte Gesamtausgabe / Regesten ; 9 place of publ.: Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt publisher: Fromann-Holzboog year: 1998 (published 1999) no of pages etc.: 403 p. ISBN: 3-7728-1972-9 currency: DEM price: 432 aprox. price in EUR: 220