Maria ist aus Anna geboren, aber aus Joachim nicht
Printing History, Manuscripts. Preserved in one manuscript in Wrocław/Breslau.
Editions. Not edited so far.
Relationship between different versions. Only one known version.
Structure, genre/form, perspective, style.
Relationship to other texts. Not a separate work, but a “very concise excerpt” (Weimann) from the main version of the authentic Libellus de virgine sancta theotoca. According to Weimann the shortening “is so radical that whole chapters are reduced to two or three sentences. On the other hand there is nothing in this excerpt that is not found in the main version. And most sentences are more or less taken word-by-word from the main version.” – Contrary to Weimann, Gantenbein considers Maria ist aus Anna geboren to be a work on its own, possibly “fragmentary working notes by Paracelsus when he was about to revise the Book on the Virgin Mary.”
Authenticity, authorship.
Time of writing. Further study required.
Manuscripts:
- Wrocław/Breslau, Biblioteka Uniwersytecka: R 333, f. 129v–133r
First printed: not printed
Essential bibliography: Sudhoff, Paracelsus-Handschriften, 540–542, 796 n° 122
Further bibliographical references:
Karl-Heinz Weimann, “Einige paracelsische Werke weniger. Untersuchungen zum überlieferten Bestand an echten Paracelsischen Werken,” Nova Acta Paracelsica, 8 (1957), 118–125, on 118, 121–123.
Angelika Dörfler-Dierken, Die Verehrung der heiligen Anna in Spätmittelalter und früher Neuzeit (Göttingen, 1992), 50.
Urs Leo Gantenbein, “The Virgin Mary and the Universal Reformation of Paracelsus,” in Daphnis 48 (2020), 4–37, on 9–10
