{"product_id":"haulen-jahrbuch-alter-und-neuer-1742","title":"Jahrbuch alter und neuer Nachrichten oder historische Beschreibung","description":"\u003cp\u003e1743 First Edition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 4to. Pp. [16], 112, [22].\u003cbr\u003e\nOnolzbach (Ansbach)\u003cbr\u003e\nChristoph Lorenz Messerer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eContemporary green full leather, with warped boards, scratches and losses along the edges, especially at the corners. Endpapers missing. Scribbles to the pastedowns. Ex-libris Friedrich von Bassermann-Jordan, wine historian. The printed text block is soiled and browned; the edges show signs of heavy use. Paper loss at pp. 111-112, affecting the first three lines of text. The manuscript leaves are generally sound and less browned, except for the final verso. There are signs that some manuscript leaves have been removed at the end. A heavily worn but rare and significant copy. Fair.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eExceptionally interesting \"yearbook\" in the Franconian Jahrbuch tradition, with a manuscript appendix and ex-libris Ex-libris Friedrich von Bassermann-Jordan (1872-1959), German wine estate owner, viticultural pioneer, and the most influential wine historian of his era, author of Geschichte des Weinbaus, which is the wine library of record for German viticultural history.\u003cbr\u003e\nAt the heart of the book are wine and weather. Häulen records exceptional vintages alongside disastrous crop failures, noting wine and grain prices as measures of abundance and scarcity: a good or failed vintage affected rents, trade, household economies, and the prosperity of an entire wine-producing region. Grain prices therefore stand beside wine prices, as part of the same economic and environmental cycle. The chronicle also records extreme weather and natural disasters, including floods of the Main, prolonged rains, and destructive hailstorms. War, mortality, civic ceremonies, and other local events enter the same register, providing the circumstances in which harvests and prices acquired their significance. Häulen's interpretation of abundance and catastrophe through divine providence further reveals the religious framework through which an eighteenth-century community understood environmental events.\u003cbr\u003e\nIn the preface, Häulen reveals some peculiarities of this specific volume: a manuscript covering only the previous century came into his hands by chance; he then sought out older reports to extend it and published the result at the request of many. Blank paper was expressly bound in at the rear so that each owner might continue the record year by year and assemble, as he puts it, a small house-chronicle for his descendants. In this copy, that invitation was taken up: twenty-two pages at the rear carry a manuscript continuation from 1742 into the 1750s in more than one hand (interestingly enough Häulen did publish a continuation in 1749, covering 1743-1748, see VD18 12344702). Blank paper for owners' entries was common in early modern Germany, most familiarly in the \"Schreibkalender\", produced in vast numbers from the 1540s. But the calendar was disposable, superseded each January, whereas Häulen attached continuation paper to a chronicle reaching back to antiquity and asked its owner to carry it forward (Ref. Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel, The Schreibkalender - writing calendar - of early modern German-speaking Europe). Rarer still is a copy in which that invitation was actually taken up and the resulting record survived.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTaken as a whole, the \"Jahr-Buch\" is a printed Franconian wine and grain chronicle useful for local record; today it reads as an unusually rich primary source for Franconian viticulture, historical climatology, agricultural and commodity history, and the social history of the region.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe book begins in antiquity, with the vintage of 126 BC cited to Pliny and Funccius, before settling into an \"Anno Christi\" sequence running from AD 312 to Häulen's own time in 1742. Year after year, wine provides one of the principal measures of history. Prices are recorded by \"Eymer\", \"Fuder\", and \"Mass\"; grain prices later appear by the \"Malter Korn\"; values move between Batzen, Kreuzer, and Gulden. Most entries are followed by a \"Geschicht\" (History) rubric. The result is wonderfully indiscriminate in the best sense: economic history, weather observation, local memory, and the marvelous sit comfortably beside one another. In 593 there is a \"Drach grosser in Rom\" (a great dragon in Rome); the enormous vintage of 1296 produces a \"Fässer-Mangel\", a shortage of casks; in 1373 comes \"Veits-Tanz\", the phenomenon of dancing mania; 1382 is remembered simply as the \"Jahr ohne Wind\", the year without wind. In 1426 wine was so cheap that a \"Fuder\" could be bought for two florins \"mit samt dem Faß\", cask included, effectively leaving the barrel worth more than its contents.\u003cbr\u003e\nSome entries move still further into the territory where meteorology, marvel, and collective memory become difficult to separate. The year 1456 brings \"Fleisch- und Blut-Regen\", a rain of flesh and blood. In 1531, at Kitzingen, there was supposedly such an abundance of wine that they \"allda mit Wein gemahlen\": milled with wine, using it in place of water. Then comes 1540, the extraordinary heat-and-drought vintage, remembered here as producing \"Wein, der rareste in diesem Seculo\" (the rarest wine in this century). Elsewhere the chronicle catches sudden catastrophe: in 1659 the \"Pulver-Hauß zu Delfft fleucht in die Lufft\", the Delft powder-house flies into the air, an apparent recollection of the Delft Thunderclap, though entered several years later than its generally accepted date of 1654.\u003cbr\u003e\nAs the chronology approaches Häulen's own lifetime, this distant historical compilation increasingly becomes local memory. The closing printed \"Supplementum\" concentrates on Mainbernheim and its surroundings, recording plague mortality, the sack of Marckbreit, local wine prices, and the 1729 \"Huldigung\" (tribute) for Baron von Seckendorff. The movement is almost imperceptible: what begins with Pliny, ancient vintages, dragons, prodigies, and medieval chronicles gradually arrives at the prices, weather, deaths, ceremonies, and harvests of Häulen's own community.\u003cbr\u003e\nAnd the book was designed not to end there. The manuscript continuation at the rear takes up the printed chronology in German cursive Kurrentschrift and carries it forward into the 1750s. Here the boundary between public and private history becomes even thinner, in alignment with Häulen's conception of the book: history beginning in antiquity, narrowing gradually toward Franconia and Mainbernheim, and finally arriving inside the reader's own house.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWine, weather, dragons, dancing mania, and a year when the barrel cost more than the wine inside it. The author invited his readers to carry the chronicle forward, and someone took him up on it, continuing the entries by hand in 22 additional pages. What begins with Pliny and the vintage of 126 BC narrows to Franconia, then to Mainbernheim's own prices and deaths, and finally to the household that owned the book.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49385892741355,"sku":"157-1743--2500.00-237.00-2026","price":423100.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00157_IMG_8834.jpg?v=1788991512","url":"https:\/\/fenicebooks.com\/en-jp\/products\/haulen-jahrbuch-alter-und-neuer-1742","provider":"La Fenice Antiquaria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}