Item Info

Scripts/Text: Cursive
Language: German
Physical Description: 409 pp.
Material: Laid paper, ink.
Watermark: Pro Patria, undetermined year or maker
Media Type: Manuscripts
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:

Manuscript codex
Written in brownish black ink, in a careful bookhand with decorative initials; on paper with vertical chainlines, sewn in 8's and signed A-U W X-2B.

Binding: dark brown calf over thick bevelled wooden boards; covers blind-tooled with fillets to a panel design; two fore-edge clasps with leather straps and brass catches; brass corner bosses on front and back
This manuscript is similar to one at Brown University, RARE BV482,T25,
Manuscript hymnbooks of this type preceded the first printed one, published under title: Neu-Eingerichtetes Gesang-Buch. Germantown, Pa. : Christoph Saur, 1762. (The present manuscript contains a different text.)
Ownership mark , front and back pastedowns, (Synnwirf? ____) 1871.

Schwenkfelder hymnbook. The text concludes with an alphabetical index of first lines.

Creation Place State/Province: State/Province:Pennsylvania

Creation Year (Single Year or Range Begin): 1747
Image Dimensions Width: 16.4 cm
ShelfMark: FLP Borneman Ms. 14