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
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)Ã¾Ì A-3OþÌ, ℗øA-6GþÌ.
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]
Pastor divinitùs electus et legitimè : Oder Der göttlich-erwählte und rechtmä€ig-beruffene Prediger ; Nach Anla€ d. Propheten Esaiä Cap. 41, v. 27
With: 1 title of 268 p. with title page and part of foreword missing; -- Bernard Walther Marberger, Gute Gedancten von der Böxen Zeit Nürnberg, 1714... -- Sebastiani Edzardi, Vertheidigungder christlichen Lehre vom Binde-Schlü̈ssel, 1707. Bound together subsequent to publication.
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
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,
Boâ¸tte & 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.
Lancaster's first steam pumper: a Union Fire Company innovation / Jack W. W. Loose -- Soldiers and sailors minumnet [sic.] designated United States shrine / Frederic S. Klein.
Historia der Augspurgischen Confession: wie sie erstlich berahtschlagt/ verfasset/ vnd Keiser Carolo V. vbergeben ist/ sampt andern ReligionsHandlungen/ so sich dabey auff dem Reichstag zu Augspurg/ Anno M.D. XXX. zugetragen: durch D. Dauidem Chytraeum erstlich zusammen geordnet/ vermehret/ vnd ... durchsehen
Gedruckt (bey Georg Raben/ in verlegung Henning Gross vnd Niclas Bocken/ bey der Burger vnd Buchhendlerin Leyptzig),
Date of Publication
1580.
Physical Description
[4], 382, [1]ff : illustrations (woodcut) ; 4to.
Notes
Small woodcut portrait of Charles V on title page. Printer's device on final leaf.
Title page printed in red and black.
Two clasps.
" ... bey G. Raben/ in verlegung H. Gross ..." on final leaf.
Includes letters by Luther, Melanchthon and others.
Partially torn label on inside cover "Privat[e] [Library] of J. Darmsta[taer].
Adams
Bound in pigskin over wooden boards, blind rolls including figures of Spes, Caritas, Fides, Fortit. round edges, and four apostles in centre panel of both boards, two clasps.
A Treaty, held at the town of Lancaster, in Pennsylvania, by the Honourable the lieutenant-governor of the province, and the Honourable the commissioners for the provinces of Virginia and Maryland, with the Indians of the Six Nations, in June, 1744
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
printed and sold by B. Franklin, at the new-printing-office, near the Market. ,
Date of Publication
M,DCC,XLIV. [1744]
Physical Description
39, [1] p. ; 33 cm. (fol.)
Notes
Other contents: Tax lists, Union Township/Lightfoot Collection, box 5, Lancaster Co., Earl twp; "Draught of lands in Lancaster County"/Surveys List of Surveys 1692; proprietary lands ca. 1776/General statitics, Mr. Hamilton's list, Dec. 1, 1765 by Edw Shippen/Pennsylvania cash accounts (Edmund Physick)/Penn MSS Pa. land grants/Lamberton Scotch-Irish Collection- Tax lists Cumberland/Lancaster Co. MSS II- Tax list Lancaster Boro/ [ditto] Tax list Cocalico/Draft of Meadow Land on River Delaware between Darby and Crum Creeks/ [ditto] Draft of farm on Hollander's Cr/Maps/Berks and Montgomery, Misc MSS- tax list Union twp
Indian speeches of Cornplanter, Half[?], etc, 1790/James Kenny Journal to the westware, 1758, 1761/Timothy Horsfield letterbook 1754-1755/Copy of Cornplanter's speech Oct 1790/Conrad Weiser's letter to C Saur
Also this roll of microfilm contains various early land transactions, copy of account of lands surveyed for the proprietors, list of ground rent for Lancaster city residents.
Originally copied for Russell Nelson by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
Reports of cases adjudged in the Court of Exchequer, in the years 1655, 1656, 1657, 1658, 1659, and 1660. And from thence continued to the 21st year of the reign of his late Majesty King Charles II. [1669]
"There is a chasm in all the copies of the first edition of Hardres of pp. 233-300 inclusive, and the catchword at the bottom of p. 232 would indicate that something was actually omitted."--Soule, Lawyer's ref. manual, 1884.
Imperfect: 1st-3d, 6th prelim. leaves wanting; supplied in photostat facsimile.
A select collection of remarkable trials : in one volume. Viz. of The Duke of Norfolk, and the Lady Mary Mordaunt, for a divorce. ... Christopher Layer, Esq. ; for high treason
Collected by William Mosely. Published with notes, and many thousand references, and two tables; one, of the names of the cases; the other, of the principal matters.
