WORM, OLE. - THE FIRST SYSTEMATIC WORK ON THE RUNIC ALPHABET.

Runer (with runic letters) Seu Danica Literatura antiqvissima, Vulgo Gothica dicta luci reddita...Cu accessit De prisca Danorum Poesi Dissertatio. Editio secunda auctior & Lucuplecttio. (+) De Monumento Trygveldensi Epistola ad Virum...Tychonem Brahe Toparcham in Tolstrup &cc. (2 Works by Worm).

Hafniæ, Melchior Martzan, apud Georgium Holst, 1636.

4to. Bound in one fine later (around 1950) hcalf, raised bands, titlelabel with gilt lettering on spine. (20),249,(6) pp. and in the text many illustrations in woodcut. + (Trygveldensi:) (16) pp. and 1 full page illustr. of the stone. First work with browning to titlepage and small tears to margins, no loss. Some scattered brownspots.


Both works scarce. In the first work - Worms first larger runic work - he investigates the origin of the runic characters based on Danish sources. He derives the runic characters from the Hebrew characters. - In the second work Worm describes the runic stone, called "Tryggevældestenen", which was erected in the yard of Tyge Brahe - not the astronomer, but his brothers son. This stone is now in The Danish National Museum. - Bibl. Danica II: 585 - Thesaurus II: 734 a. 729.

Order-nr.: 42535


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