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Urständliche und erfahrungs-volle hohe Zeugnüsse wie man zum geistlichen Leben und dessen Vollkommenheit, gelangen möge. : Welche ein hoch-erleuchteter und gott-ergebener Zeuge Jesu Christi, in seinem geistlichen Tage-Werck erlernet ; und dieselbe ... an seine geistliche Kinder, und Anverwandte eröffnet

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Author
Beissel, Conrad,
Date of Publication
1745.
Call Number
090 E63br 1745a
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Responsibility
von denselben aber um ihrer Vortrefflichkeit willen, gesammlet, und, zum Unterricht anderer, ans Licht gegeben.
Author
Beissel, Conrad,
Uniform Title
Zionitischen Stiffts I. Theil
Place of Publication
Ephrata, in Peusylvanien [sic]
Publisher
Drucks der Brüderschafft,
Date of Publication
1745.
Physical Description
[8], 294 pages ; 20 cm (4to)
Notes
Author's name from Evans.
Originally published as: Zionitischen Stiffts I. Theil. Ephrata, 1745. these are the same sheets with a new title page, preface, special half title, and 11 additional pages.
Signatures:)(a⁴, A-2⁴ [2]²
From the Collecltions of the Heritage Center Museum, G.83.2.
"Mystische Und Erfahrungs-volle Episteln ..." (p. [59]-294) has special half title with title vignette (flowers in vase).
Sabin
Evans
Seidensticker, O. German printing,
Full leather binding badly damanged with missing spine resluting in loose covers.
Subjects
Ephrata Cloister.
Mysticism.
Place
United States Pennsylvania Ephrata.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
090 E63br 1745a
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Der blutige Schau-platz, oder, Martyrer Spiegel der Tauffs gesi[n]nten oder wehrlosen-Christen : die um des Zeugnuss Jesu ihres Seligmachers willen gelitten haben, und seynd getodtet worden, von Christi Zeit an bis auf das Jahr 1660 : vormals aus unterschiedlichen glaubwurdigen Chronicken, Nachrichten und Zeugnussen gesa[m]mlet und in hollandischer Sprach heraus gegeben

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19089
Author
Braght, Thieleman J. van
Date of Publication
anno 1748-1749.
Call Number
090 E63 1748 c. 2 Oversize
090 E63 1748 c. 3 Oversize
090 E63 1749 Oversize
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Alternate Title
Martyrs' Mirror.
Blutige Schau-platz
Martyrer Spiegel der Tauffs gesi[n]nten oder wehrlosen-Christen
Responsibility
von T.J.V. Braght ; nun aber sorgfaltigst ins Hochteutsche ubersetzt und zum erstenmal ans Licht gebracht.
Author
Braght, Thieleman J. van
Uniform Title
Bloedig toneel.
Place of Publication
Ephrata in Pensylvanien
Publisher
Drucks und Verlags der Bruderschafft,
Date of Publication
anno 1748-1749.
Physical Description
2 v. in 1, [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 38 cm. (fol.)
Notes
In double columns within line borders.
Vol. 2 has special t.p. with 1749 publication date.
Pagination: 56, 478, [18], 949, [11] p.
Signatures: (A)-(G)þ́ A-3Oþ́, ℗øA-6Gþ́.
Copy 1. Pasted note on back of front cover: Library and Museum of Lancaster County Historical Society. Library number 92. Donated by Squire Hildebrand. Received Apr. 9, 1897.
Copy 1. Note in faded pencil: John [Howirter?] ... [made this Bible?]
Copy 2. Note on back of first flyleaf: "This Book belongs to Abraham Graff, January the 6th January 1788".
Copy 2. Housed in a brown linen slipcase with leather spine label.
Copy 2. Vignette on p. 133 of flowers in urn.
Copy 3. Heritage Center copy contingent upon staff availibility, an appointment may be required.
Copy 3. Heritage Center copy original call number PO2.21.1.
Copy 3. Heritage Center copy bears on inside front cover full colored fractur bookplate of Hans Tschantz.
Copy 3. Heritage Center copy: Genealogy of Tschantz and Johns families on back four flyleaves, 1746-1799.
Martyrs Mirror.
Evans
Botte & Tannhof. German printing,
Copy 1. Contemporary binding. Half of leather on front cover missing, one engraved brass corner missing; both clasps missing; leather on spine missing; One-third of leather on back cover missingg, one engraved brass corner missing Raised bosses on front and back boards. Front cover detached.
Copy 2. Contemporary binding with brass clasps (missing) and brass catches. Engraved brass on corners. Raised bosses on front and back boards. Front cover loose.
Copy 3. Heritage Center copy: Contemporary binding with brass clasps (missing) and brass catches. Brass on corners. Blind tooling on front and back boards.
Summary
This book includes accounts of the martyrdom of the apostles and the stories of martyrs from previous centuries. Next to the Bible, the Martyrs' Mirror has historically held the most significant and prominent place in Amish and Mennonite homes. The Martyrs Mirror is still a beloved book among Amish and Mennonites. While less common now in the 20th century, Martyrs' Mirror is a common wedding gift for Amish and Mennonite families. In 1745, Jacob Gottschalk arranged with the Ephrata Cloister to have them translate the Martyrs Mirror from Dutch into German and to print it. The work took 15 men three years to finish and in 1749, at 1,512 pages, it was the largest book printed in America before the Revolutionary War. [wikipedia]
Subjects
Tschantz, Hanss.
Tschantz, Jacob, - 1746- .
Johns, Catharena, - 1776- .
Tschantz family - Genealogy.
Johns family - Geneology.
Christian martyrs - Biography.
Persecution - Early works to 1800.
Anabaptists - Europe - Biography.
Anabaptists.
Christian martyrs.
Persecution.
Europe.
Biography.
Early works.
History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
090 E63 1748 c. 2 Oversize
090 E63 1748 c. 3 Oversize
090 E63 1749 Oversize
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Vollstandiges Marburger Gesang-Buch, zur Uebung der Gottseligkeit worinnen 615 auserlesene trost-reiche Psalmen und Gesange ... Martin Luthers und anderer gottseliger Lehrer : ordentlich in XII. Theile verfasset ... mit erbaulichen Morgen-, Abend-, Bu, Beicht- und Communion-Gebatlein vermehret

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Date of Publication
1774.
Call Number
264.2 M312 1774
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Place of Publication
Marburg & Frankfurt
Publisher
Bronner,
Date of Publication
1774.
Physical Description
1044 S., [10] Bl.
Notes
"Lutheran" written at top of first flyleaf.
Mary Northamer her Book May the 21, 1787; Adam Northamer written at top of second flyleaf.
[Contents appear to be Lutheran as against the Reformed Church in the U. S.; the phrase "zu Ubungder Gottseligikeit" (hymnal 13565) ; in title is regularly found in the (Lutheran) Marberger Gesangbuch.].
Elaborate tooling on full leather binding, missing one clasp;patterned leaves on back of covers; tooling on gilt edges of pages.
Subjects
Lutheran Church
Hymns, German.
Additional Author
Luther, Martin,
Northamer, Mary.
Northamer, Adam.
Additional Corporate Author
Evangelical Lutheran Ministerium of Pennsylvbania & adjacent states.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
264.2 M312 1774
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Biblia, das ist: Die ganze göttliche Heilige Schrifft Alten und Neuen Testaments : nach der deutschen Uebersetzung D. Martin Luthers ; mit jedes Capitels kurzen Summarien, auch beygefügten vielen und richtigen Parallelen : nebst einem Anhang des dritten und vierten Buchs Esrä, und des dritten Buchs der Maccabäer

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Edition
3. Aufl.
Date of Publication
1776.
Call Number
220 G373 1776
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Edition
3. Aufl.
Place of Publication
Germantown
Publisher
Gedruckt und zu finden bey Christoph Saur,
Date of Publication
1776.
Physical Description
[4], 992, 277, [3] pages ; 26 cm (4to)
Notes
Preface signed: Chr. Saur.
"Das Neue Testament unsers Herrn und Heylandes Jesu Christi, nach der deutschen Uebersetzung Dr. Martin Luthers, mit kurzem Inhalt eines jeden Capitels, und vollständiger Anweisung gleicher Schrift-Stellen. Wie auch aller Sonn- und Fest-tägigen Evangelien und Episteln. Dritte Auflage" has special title page.
This edition was published by the son of the publisher of the 1st edition, and consisted of 3000 copies. This is substantially the same as the 2d ed., 1763, and resembles the 1st ed., but with some slight changes and a new preface. Cf. J. Wright. Early Bibles of America, p. 46-47.
Head- and tail-pieces; initials.
"In 1776 he [i.e. Christoph Saur, the printer] had just completed a third edition (3000 copies) when the outbreak of the American War of Independence interupted the work, and nearly the whole of the unbound sheets were used to make cartridges"; cf. Darlow & Moule.
Page 198 (first numbered sequence) incorrectly numbered 189; p. 162 (second numbered sequence) incorrectly numbered 192.
Viewing bibles contingent of staff availability, and appointment may be required.
Darlow & Moule,
ESTC
Evans
Sabin
Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania,
Full leather binding with metal studs; clasps missing; front cover detached.
Additional Author
Luther, Martin,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
220 G373 1776
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Guldene Aepffel in silbern Schalen oder: Scholne und nutzliche Worte und Warheiten zur Gottseligkeit: Enthalten in sieben Haupt-Theilen, die in diesem Buch zusamen gestellet sind; mit sonderbarem Fleiss von denen in der vorigen Edition haufig eingeschlichenen Druckfehlern gereiniget. : Nebst angehangten Vorreden, und einem zweyfachen Register

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Date of Publication
[1745]
Call Number
090 E63br 1745
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Place of Publication
Efrata [i.e. Ephrata, Pa.]
Publisher
Im Jahr des Heils, 1745. Verlegt durch etliche Mitglieder der Mennonisten-Gemeine.,
Date of Publication
[1745]
Physical Description
[8], 344, 330-519, [14] p. ; 17 cm. (8vo)
Notes
"The first book printed at the Brotherhood press."--Evans. Seidensticker disputes this claim, suggesting that the press was in operation before 1745.
There were two issues of this collection, with varied title pages. One was intended for use at Ephrata; the other (described here) for the Mennonites.
Commas substituted for virgules after "Haupt-Theilen" and "Vorreden" in title transcription.
Errors in paging: p. 331, 436 misnumbered 333, 634; page numbers 330-344 repeated. Cf. the erratum note on verso of last leaf.
Evans
Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania,
Bo⁸tte & Tannhof. German printing,
Full leather., one clasp missing.
Contents
Michael Sattlers Sendbrieff an eine Gemeinde Gottes -- Confessio Pulchra, oder: Schone Bekantnss eines frommen und Gott-liebenden Christen -- Ein Testament von einer frommen Liebhaber in Jesus -- Matthia Cervas von Rottenem, Eilff auserlesene Send-Brieffe -- Christliche Glaubens Bekantnuss, der friedliebenden (unter dem Namen der Menonisten) wolbekanten Christen -- Etliche christliche Gebethe -- Faes Dirksz um des Zeugnusses willen; nebst 2. andern getodtet zu Gou in Holland.
Subjects
Mennonites - Controversial literature.
Seventh-Day Baptists - Controversial literature.
Place
United States Pennsylvania Ephrata.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
090 E63br 1745
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Robert Barclays Apologie oder Vertheidigungs-Schirfft der wahren Christlichen Gottesgelahrheit : wie solche unter dem Volck, so man aus Spott Quaker

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Author
Barclay, Robert,
Edition
Anietzo nach der zweyten Lateinischen und sechsten Englischen Herausgebung gantz von neuen ins Deutsche übersetzt.
Date of Publication
1740.
Call Number
230.3 G354 1740
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Author
Barclay, Robert,
Uniform Title
Theologiae verè Christianae apologia.
Edition
Anietzo nach der zweyten Lateinischen und sechsten Englischen Herausgebung gantz von neuen ins Deutsche übersetzt.
Place of Publication
[Germany?]
Publisher
Anno,
Date of Publication
1740.
Physical Description
776, [24] p. ; 20 cm. (8vo)
Notes
With a half-title and an index.
Subjects
Society of Friends
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
230.3 G354 1740
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[Die gantze Bibel : das ist alle Bücher allts vnnd neüws Testaments, den vrsprünglichen Spraachen nach, auffs aller treüwlichest verteütschet : darzü sind yetz und kom[m]en ein schön vnd volkom[m]en Register od[er] Zeyger über die gantzen Bibel : die Jarzal vnnd Rächnung der Zeyten von Adamen biss an Christu, mit sampt gwüssen Concordantzen, Argumenten, und Zalen.]

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Edition
Aufs neue nachgedruckt.
Date of Publication
im Jar MDCCXLIV [1744]
Call Number
220 L848 1744
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Edition
Aufs neue nachgedruckt.
Place of Publication
Zu Strassburg
Publisher
Bey Simon Kürssner, Cantzley-Buchdrucker,
Date of Publication
im Jar MDCCXLIV [1744]
Physical Description
[32], 683, [1], 384, 275, [1] pages, [2] leaves of plates : plates ; 36 cm (2o)
Notes
Title pages and plates missing; identification based on pagination and signatures.
"Getruckt zu Zürich bey Christoffel Froschouer, im Jar als man zalt M.D. XXXVI."
Pages also numbered with Roman numerals.
Viewing bibles contingent on staff availabilithy, an appointment may be required.
One loose newspaper article on rare bibles removed to MG-399; Long family bible.
Long family bible.
Typescript affixed to inside cover: This was the BIBLE of HERMAN LONG of East Donegal Twp. He was born about 1734 and died 1804. His wives not surely known. His Children were, JOHN born about 1763 married to a Frantz. CHRISTIAN born 1765 married Barbara Landis. HERMAN born 1765 married Mary Fritz. ANN born 1768 married Michael Hoffman. JACOB born 1770 not married. Abraham born 1778 married Betsy Lewis. JOSEPH born 1780 married Christiana Fritz. ELIZABETH born 1783 married David Sandoe. BEJAMIN born 1787 married Mary Hershey. SAMUEL born 1795 married Ann Grove and Elizabeth Miller. and MARTIN LONG married Maria Ziegler. [A translation of genealogical information on back of front and back covers.
Several pages at beginning and end loose. Front cover secured to spine with twine.
Signatures:)(²([dagger])⁴-5([dagger])⁴A-4P⁴4Q⁶[A]-3[B]⁴a-2k⁴2l⁶.
Subjects
Long, Herman, - 1734-1808.
Long family - Genealogy.
Place
France Strasbourg.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Bible
Call Number
220 L848 1744
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Historie von Grönland : enthaltend die Beschreibung des Landes und der Einwohner &c., insbesondere die Geschichte der dortigen Mission der Evangelischen Brüder zu Neu-Herrnhut und Lichtenfels

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Author
Cranz, David,
Edition
Zweyte Aufl., mit acht Kupfertafeln und einem Register.
Date of Publication
1770.
Call Number
998.2 B241 1770
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Responsibility
David Cranz.
Author
Cranz, David,
Edition
Zweyte Aufl., mit acht Kupfertafeln und einem Register.
Place of Publication
Barby : Und in Leipzig
Publisher
Bey Heinrich Detlef Ebers ; In Commission bey Weidmanns Erben und Reich,
Date of Publication
1770.
Physical Description
2 v. ([30], [4], 1132, [28] p.), 8 folded plates : folded ill., 2 folded maps ; 19 cm.
Notes
Cranz' name at head of title.
Caption title: Der grönländischen Historie.
Vol. 2 has title: Der grönländischen Historie. Zweyter Theil.
Includes index.
Library has: Vol. 2 only.
Contains only 1 folded plate.
Bookplate of the Conservatory of Arts and Sciences, Lancaster, P'a. No. 270 pasted on inside front cover.
With: Fortsetzung der Historie von Grönland / von David Cranz. Barby : Bey Heinrich Detlef Ebers ; Und in Leipzig : In Commission bey Weidmanns Erben und Reich, 1770.
Subjects
Moravian Church - Missions.
Missions - Greenland.
Greenland.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
998.2 B241 1770
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Das Pennsylvanische Zeitungs-Blat, oder, Sammlung sowohl auswärtig- als einheimischer Neuigkeiten

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Date of Publication
1778.
Call Number
070.484 P415
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Alternate Title
Pennsylvanische Zeitungs-Blat
Place of Publication
[Lancaster, Pa.]
Publisher
Frantz Bailey,
Date of Publication
1778.
Physical Description
21 v. ; 33 cm.
Publication Frequency
Weekly
Dates of Publication
1 Stück (4 Feb. 1778)-21 Stück (24 Juni 1778).
Notes
Photocopy of the microfilm copy (No. 212) in LCHS library.
Sub-title: Bekantmachung sowohl auswärtig-als ein-heimischer Neuigkeiten, Apr. 29, 1778-June 24, 1778.
Subjects
German Americans - Pennsylvania - Newspapers.
Germans - Pennsylvania - Newspapers.
Lancaster (Pa.) - Newspapers.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Newspapers.
Place
United States Pennsylvania Lancaster Lancaster.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
070.484 P415
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Archive

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Collection
Ephrata Cloister Collection
Title
Ephrata Cloister Collection
Object ID
MG0081
Date Range
1753-2007
filed in Oversized Box 6, Folder 3, Item 5. Insert 2 “Notes on Ephrata Cloister Architecture,” by John W. W. Loose, Secretary and Ephrata Cloister Historian. (photocopy) No date. Folder 5 Poem or song by Sister Sarah. “Melody: Sound the Trumpets.” Original in German with a later English translation. No
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Collection
Ephrata Cloister Collection
Title
Ephrata Cloister Collection
Description
Collection of items relating to the Society of Seventh Day Baptists and Ephrata Cloister. Legal papers deal with a dispute concerning the election of trustees and mismanagement of the estate. There are brief histories of the Cloister, poems, publications, programs, tourist brochures, and a booklet describing treatments for various ailments.
Date Range
1753-2007
Year Range From
1753
Year Range To
2007
Date of Accumulation
1753-2007
Creator
Ephrata Cloister
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives South
Storage Wall
Side 03
People
Aurand, A. Monroe, Jr.
Baer, Johann
Bar, Johann
Bowman, John
Daniel, N. J.
Doll, Eugene E.
Downes, J. A.
Dunkelberger, Ralph D.
Elsen, John
Franck, Ira S.
Hagen, F. F.
Heatwole, Daniel R.
Hocker, Ludwig
Hollinger, J. Daryl
Keller, James
Kimmel, Jacob
Leber, A. P.
Lollich, P. M.
Loose, John W. W.
Miller, Henry
Mitton, Juliet
Nevin, [ ]
Plessinger, F. P.
Pyle, Howard
Raber, [ ]
Senseman, John
Stubsky, Georg
Subjects
Pamphlets
Watermarks
Search Terms
Aurand Press
Brochures
Ephrata Cloister
Ephrata Cloister Associates, Inc.
Ephrata Cloister Chorus
Harper's New Monthly Magazine
Hocking Printing Company, Inc.
Legal papers
Mennonite Publishing House
Pamphlets
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
Pow wow
Review Book Store
Seventh Day Baptists
Society of the Seventh Day Baptists of Ephrata
Watermarks
Ye Village Inne
Extent
2 boxes, 22 folders, 1 volume, .75 cubic ft.
Object Name
Archive
Language
English and German
Object ID
MG0081
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Related Item Notes
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Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Classification
MG0081
Description Level
Fonds
Custodial History
Originally cataloged prior to 1997. Added to database 01 November 2018.
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