Kolbinger, Joannes Chrysostomus
Sigmaringen 1703 – 1758 Fulda

Der Jn dem Weege Der Wahrheit und Gerechtigkeit Eccli. 34. 22. Geliebte des Herren 2. Reg. 12. 25. Amandus. Das ist: Der von hohen Tugenden und Fürstlichen Thaten gepriesene ewiger Gedächtnus-Würdige Lebens-Wandel Weyland… Amandi, Ersten Bischoffen Wie auch Abbten zu Fulda… Bey Höchst Deroselben Leich-Besingnuß… in einer Leich- und Ehren Rede Den 10. Mertz 1757. Jn der hohen Dom-Kirche ad S. Salvatorem zu Fulda Vorge­tragen.

With

[Anonymous]

Monumentum Mortis In Memoriam Vitae Et Viventis Post Funera Virtutis Amandi… Quando… Adalbertus Electus Episcopus & Abbas Fuldensis… Reverendissimo & Celsissimo Antecessori Suo In Ecclesia Cathedrali Ad S. Salvatorem Solemnibus Exequiis Parentavit. Eidemque Cum immenso fere Totius Fuldae Moerore In Catastrum Mortuorum Relato Hoc Castrum Doloris Ad perpetuam Virtutum & meritorum ipsius memoriam & gloriam Adornavit.

With

Weizell, Johann Georg

Ordentlicher Leich-Conduct Weyland Des Hochwürdigsten Fürsten und Herrn Herrn Amandi, Bischoffen und Abbten zu Fulda... Wie derselbe Den 10. Martii 1757. aus der Hochfürstl. Residentz In die hohe Dom-Kirchen gehalten worden, und was nach Absterben des höchst-seeligsten Fürstens auf der Fasanerie, und von dannen bis Fuld sich zugetragen.

Fulda, Johann Christoph Dempter, 1757

folio (340 × 225 mm), in three parts: (24) ff. signed π1 (title) A–I² K1 L–M² and paginated (2) 1–45 (1), with woodcut head-piece, initial, and tail-piece ‘Hodie mihi, cras tibi’, plus folding engraving (platemark 320 × 415 mm, trimmed by binder) signed by the printmaker I. Franz Pfeiffer Sc. Fuldae; (25) ff. signed A–C² D²⁺¹ E–M² and paginated 1–16 (2, interpolated leaf ‘Facies iv’) 17–48, with woodcut ornaments; plus two plates signed by Pfeiffer of the castrum doloris (platemarks 395 × 310 mm); (13) ff. signed A–B² C1, A–C² [D]² and paginated 1–10, 1–13 (3), with woodcut head-piece ‘Heute an mir, morgen an dir’, and typographical tail-piece. The versoes of D1 and D2 are blank; as the same text appears on both rectoes, D2 was meant to be cancelled by the binder.

provenance Freiherren von Fechenbach, Schloß Laudenbach — Hartung & Hartung, Auktion 113 (‘Dabei Teil II der Bibliothek des fränkischen Adels­geschlechts von Fechenbach’), Munich, 10 May 2006, lot 1827

Clean tears in two of the folding plates.

bound in a contemporary wrapper of floral Bronzefirnispapier on black ground

A Sammelband gathering three publications concerning the obsequies for Amandus (Friedrich Franz Ludwig) von Buseck, Fürstbischof of Fulda, who had died at three o’clock in the morning of 4 December 1756, at his Schloß Fasanerie-Adolphseck, was em­balmed the same day, afterwards transferred to Fulda, and interred on 13 December 1756 in Fulda Domkirche. His obsequies were twice postponed: first, until after the election of his successor, Fürstbischof Adalbert von Walderdorff (17 January 1757), then again to enable the attendance of distinguished guests.¹

The first work in the volume is the Leichenpredigt delivered on 10 March 1757 by Johann Kolbinger, a monk of the Benedictine abbey of Ottobeuren, and professor of canon law at Fulda,² who took as his text 2 Kings 12:25, ‘Vocavit nomen ejus, Amabilis Domino, eo quod diligeret eum Dominus’ (Vulgata Clementina). Our copy is illustrated by a large folding plate not ordinarily present, depicting the Trauergerüst erected in the Kapelle des Residenzschlosses, on which the corpse had reposed three months previously.

The second work is a anonymous description of the castrum doloris erected in March 1757 in the crossing of the Domkirche, explicating its numerous emblems of mourning, tran­scribing lemmas and other inscriptions, with two large plates signed by the same print­ maker, J[ohann?] Franz Pfeiffer of Fulda. The third work combines a ‘seating plan’ of those present with the text of the ‘Lob- und Danck-Rede’ delivered on 10 March 1757 by Chancellor Johann Weizell.

Similar volumes (containing all three works) can be traced

● Bamberg, Universitätsbibliothek, 19/ymi A50 c7700 ● Fulda, Hochschul- und Landesbibliothek, 4 ° Schw Stift L46, 49 ● Münster, Bibliothek der Kapuziner, AB. Fol 15 123,06

Elsewhere, single parts are recorded

Kolbinger ● Fulda, Bibliothek des Bischöflichen Priester­seminars, 2° Fuld 32/196● Köln, Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek, GB xiii 407 ● Marburg, Hessisches Staatsarchiv, 96/389 i (copy 1), 15, 230/4 (copy 2, incomplete) ● Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Res/2 Or. fun.9 ● Würzburg, Diözesanbibliothek

Kolbinger & Monumentum Mortis ● London, British Library, 4885.f.2.(17–18.)

Monumentum Mortis ● Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Res/2 L.eleg. m 129/3

references Katalog der Leichenpredigten und sonstiger Trauerschriften in Fuldaer Bibliotheken, edited by Rudolf Lenz et al. (Stuttgart 2004), p.63 no. 84; Katalog der Leichenpredigten und sonstiger Trauerschriften im Hessischen Staatsarchiv Marburg, edited by Rudolf Lenz et al. (Sigmaringen 1992), p.38 no. 499.