Item Info

Scripts/Text: Fraktur: German script; Roman script
Language: German
Physical Description: 605 p; 8vo
Material: Laid paper; red and black gall ink; leather; brass; thread
Category: Hymnal
Media Type: Manuscripts
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:

Binding: Full leather with blind tooling and stamped fleurons.

Contents: arranged according to times and activities of the weekday, Sundays, church holidays, burials, Biblical miracles.

Tägliches Gesang=Büchlein, 1-124 [3-126]
Auf Begehren Ein bedenken über das Lied  Als Gott die Erd beschieff etc…[127-142]
Von der Geburt Jesu Christ, 1-52 [143-194]
Folgen die Lieder Martin John, 52- 124  [Includes an alphabetical register, and a register according to the Gospel text/Sunday readings] [194-266]
Vom Reich und Gerichte Christi, [267-269]
Die CL Psalmen Davids in Reim verfasset und componirt, 1-315 [271-585] 
An alphabetized register follows for the psalms on [586-591], a register according to the church calendar, and Gospel text/Sunday readings [591-593], and an alphabetized register of word meanings in the psalms from A-S [593-605].

The Ms. appears at some point to have been used by children to scribble in. There is graffiti in pencil and ink throughout the Ms. including the alphabet in majuscule Roman printed letters; 1855; names of John Roth, Mary Roth, Susanna Heastor.

Associated Names: Roth, Mary
Provenance: Borneman, Henry Stauffer, 1870-1955
Schwenkfelders

Bibliography:

Brown, Christopher Boyd: Singing the Gospel: Lutheran Hymns and the Success of the Reformation (Cambridge, Mass., London England: Harvard University Press, 2005).

Viehmeyer, A. (2009). Martin John the Younger. Unpublished manuscript.

Wackernagel, Philipp: Das deutsche Kirchenlied von der äeltesten Zeit bis zu Anfang des XVII. Jahrhunderts,. (Leipzig :B. G. Teubner, 1864-1867; reprint, Hildesheim: Olms, 1990), Vol. 3, p. 244.

Weigelt, Horst. "Der Arzt und Botaniker Martin John: Eine führende Gestalt des schlesischen Schwenckfeldertums im 17. Jahrhundert." Jahrbuch für Schlesische Kirchengeschichte Neue Folge 74 (1996): 101-17.

Creation Place State/Province: Creation Place Note:Based on content and scrivener’s hand; tailpiece on p. 315 [585]
State/Province:Southeastern Pennsylvania

Image Dimensions Width: 19.8 cm
ShelfMark: FLP Borneman Ms. 21