Wickiana

Burning of three witches in Baden (1585).

The Wickiana by Johann Jakob Wick of Zürich (1522-1588) is a collection of single-leaf broadsheets assembled in 24 volumes between 1560 and 1587. It is an important source for the period of the protestant Reformation in Switzerland.

Wick lived in the Zürich ruled by Heinrich Bullinger, the successor of Huldrych Zwingli. He studied theology in Tübingen, and was pastor of Witikon, at the city hospital, and the Predigerkirche. Afterwards he was canon and second archdeacon at the Grossmünster.

Wick's papers were collected in the Grossmünster monastery library after his death in 1588. They were moved to the Zentralbibliothek Zürich in 1836. The original collection divided between the library's manuscript and early prints divisions in 1925. The prints collection consists of a total of 429 prints of the original Grossmünster collection (PAS II 25) plus ten items added later (PAS II 25). The manuscript portion has the library indices Ms F 12–35. The collection was partly published in facsimile in an edition with commentary in 1997–2005.

See also

• Swiss illustrated chronicles
• History of Zürich
• Historiography of Switzerland
• Swiss Reformation

References

• M. Senn, Die Wickiana. Johann Jakob Wicks Nachrichtensammlung aus dem 16. Jahrhundert, Zürich 1975.
• Franz Matthias Mauelshagen, Wunderkammer auf Papier. Die Wickiana zwischen Reformation und Volksglaube, Diss. Univ. Zürich, Zürich 2008.
• Wolfgang Harms, Michael Schilling (eds.), Die Wickiana. Die Sammlung der Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Tübingen 1997–2005.

External links

• Template:De icon Zentralbibliothek Zürich
• Template:De icon http://www.g26.ch/texte_volkskunst_02.html