I was just reading about crime reports from the 1600th century

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I was just reading about crime reports from the 1600th century (I believe I started off researching a coin) and I came across this gentleman:

Johann Jakob Wick (* 1522 in Zürich; † 14. August 1588 Zürich)
Pastor and the collector of the Wickiana.

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The Wickiana is recognized as one of the most significant collections of news reports and documents pertaining to current events dating from the 16th century in the form of single-leaf and illustrated broadsheets, pamphlets, prints, handwritten texts and drawings. These time capsules form one of the most important archives pertaining to a particular epoch, namely that of the Reformation in Switzerland. Johann Jakob Wick (1522-1588), after whom the collection is named, was the clergyman at the Predigerkirche and its associated hospital in Zürich from 1552 and then second Archdeacon, and thus also canon, at the Grossmünster in Zürich from 1557. He assembled and arranged contemporary news documents chronologically between 1559 and 1588, also integrating further material from the period approx. 1505 until 1559 into his collection.

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How fucking cool would it be to read that? Has any part of it ever been translated? My googling turns up nothing but photographs of the original documents themselves, which even a german would have difficulty getting through.

Unrelated but I find this whole time period really interesting and would like to own a huge poster of Europe as it existed at some point in it. Preferably something readable and more Crusader Kings II style than "ancient map." I can't find anything so I guess I'm going to have to make it myself by modding a game and somehow wrangling insane resolution screenshots out of there. Just mentioning in case one of you have done something like this and would like to offer comments or tips.

ps. communism is cancer