The Wickiana by Johann Jakob Wick of Zürich

Zürich

Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich...

 (1522-1588) is a collection of notices assembled in 24 volumes between 1560 and 1587. It is an important source for the period of the Reformation in Switzerland

Reformation in Switzerland

The Protestant Reformation in Switzerland was promoted initially by Huldrych Zwingli, who gained the support of the magistrate and population of Zürich in the 1520s. It led to significant changes in civil life and state matters in Zürich and spread to several other cantons of the Old Swiss...

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Wick lived in the Zürich ruled by Heinrich Bullinger

Heinrich Bullinger

Heinrich Bullinger was a Swiss reformer, the successor of Huldrych Zwingli as head of the Zurich church and pastor at Grossmünster...

, the successor of Zwingli. He studied theology in Tübingen

Tübingen

Tübingen is a traditional university town in central Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated south of the state capital, Stuttgart, on a ridge between the Neckar and Ammer rivers.-Geography:...

, and was pastor of Witikon

Witikon

Witikon is a quarter in the district 7 in Zurich.It was formerly a municipality of its own, having been incorporated into Zurich in 1893.The quarter has a population of 9,864 distributed on an area of 4.93 km²....

, at the city hospital, and at the Grossmünster

Grossmünster

The Grossmünster is a Romanesque-style church in Zurich, Switzerland. It is one of the three major churches in the city . The core of the present building near the banks of the Limmat River was constructed on the site of a Carolingian church, which was, according to legend, originally commissioned...

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Wick's papers were collected in the Grossmünster monastery library after his death in 1588. They were moved to the Zentralbibliothek Zürich

Zentralbibliothek Zürich

Zentralbibliothek Zürich is the main library of both the city and the University of Zürich, housed in the Predigerkloster, the former Black Friars' abbey, in the old town's Rathaus quarter....

 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
  Swiss illustrated chronicles
  Several illustrated chronicles were created in the Old Swiss Confederacy in the 15th and 16th centuries. They were luxurious illuminated manuscripts produced for the urban elite of Bern and Lucerne, and their copious detailed illustrations allow a unique insight into the politics and daily life of...
  
  
• History of Zürich
  History of Zürich
  Zurich was continuously inhabited since Roman times. The name Zurich is possibly derived from the Celtic dur . It is first mentioned in 807 under the form Turigus, then in 853 as Turegus...
  
  
• Historiography of Switzerland
  Historiography of Switzerland
  The historiography of Switzerland is the study of the history of Switzerland. Up until the late twentieth century, it was largely shaped by the centuries-old traditional account of the founding of the Old Swiss Confederacy through the Federal Charter of 1291 as a defensive alliance of small...
  
  
• Swiss Reformation

External links

Zentralbibliothek Zürich http://www.g26.ch/texte_volkskunst_02.html