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A study of two distinct periods of Ephrata Cloister history

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Author: Loose, John Ward Willson.

Date of Publication: 1951

StudyofTwo Distinct Periods Perio Ephrata (.,Coiner BY JACK WARD WILLSON LOOSE I. Mills of the Cloister The Ephrata Cloisters owed its founding, if not its raison d'etre to Johann Conrad Beissel, who was born in April, 1690, at Eberbach in the German Palatinate. Beissel's father was an intemperate

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Responsibility: by Jack Ward Willson Loose.

Author: Loose, John Ward Willson.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1951

Physical Description: [145]-[179] p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 55, no. 6

Subjects: Beissel, Conrad, - 1690-1768.; Miller, Johann Peter.; Eckerling family.; Ephrata Cloister.; Mills and mill-work - Pennsylvania - Ephrata.; Printing - Pennsylvania - Ephrata.; Mysticism - Pennsylvania - Ephrata.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 55, number 6 (1951), p. 145-179Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.55

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The German sectarians of Pennsylvania : a critical and legendary history of the Ephrata Cloister and the Dunkers

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Author: Sachse, Julius Friedrich,

Date of Publication: 1899-1900.

Call Number: 974.802814 S121

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Responsibility: by Julius Friedrich Sachse.

Author: Sachse, Julius Friedrich,

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Printed for the author,

Date of Publication: 1899-1900.

Physical Description: 2 v. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.

Notes: LCHS has no. 326.; Click on Table of Contents for more information.; Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents: v. 1. 1708-1742 -- I. Ephrata of the present day -- II. Beyond the Cocalico -- III. Advent of the Palatines -- IV. German pilgrims -- V. The Weaver's apprentice -- VI. The Labadists on the Bohemia Manor -- VII. The hut in the forest -- VIII. The German Baptist Brethren -- IX. The New Dunkers on the Conestoga -- X. The Cradle of German literature -- XI. Alexander Mack -- XII. Koch-Halekung, the serpent's den -- XIII. A retrospect -- XIV. A eventful year -- XV. The awakening of the Tulpehoken -- XVI. Kedar -- XVII. Jacob's Kampff und Ritter-platz -- XVIII. The monastery on the Wissahickon -- XIX. Unitas Fratrum -- XX. The habits of the orders -- XXI. Roster of the celibates -- XXII. The Weyrauchs Hugel -- XXIII. The Zionitic Brotherhood -- XXIV. The Amwell Dunkers -- XXV. The house of prayer -- XXVI. Peniel -- XXVII. A celestial visit -- XXVIII. The Skippack Brethren -- XXIX. The Pennsylvania Synods -- XXX. The order of the mustard seed -- XXXI. Hebron -- XXXII. Saron -- XXXIII. Bethania.; v.2. 1742-1800 -- I. Christopher Sauer and his German Bible -- II. Magister Johannes Hildebrand -- III. The great comet of 1743 -- IV. The pilgrimage to New England -- V. Industrial feature of the community -- VI. The music of the Cloister -- VII. The mystic of the Cocalico -- VIII. The rule of the Sisterhood -- IX. The Eckerlins -- X. The Ephrata Press -- XI. The Nantmel revival -- XII. The Gimsheim revival -- XIII. Conrad Weiser -- XIV. Educational departments -- XV. The visit of Israel Acrelius -- XVI. The Valleys of Virginia -- XVII. Snow Hill -- XVIII. Exoricism of fire -- XIX. Friedsam Gottrecht -- XX. Prior Jaebez -- XXI. Issues of the Kloster Press -- The Ephrata register (burial record)

Subjects: Ephrata Cloister.; Church of the Brethren.; Pennsylvania Dutch.; German Americans - Pennsylvania.; Printing - Pennsylvania; Ephrata (Pa.)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.802814 S121

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"Pencillings about Ephrata, by a visitor" and the Ephrata Mountain Springs

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Date of Publication: 1998.

Call Number: JHSCV v. 23 1998

Responsibility: Introduction by Clarence Edwin Spohn.

Place of Publication: Ephrata, Pa

Publisher: Historical Society of the Cocalico Valley ,

Date of Publication: 1998.

Physical Description: xx, 45 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Series: Historical Society of the Cocalico Valley ,

Subjects: Ephrata Cloister.; Ephrata Mountain Springs Hotel (Ephrata, Pa.); Ephrata (Pa.) - History.

Additional Author: Spohn, Clarence Edwin.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: JHSCV v. 23 1998

A triad of Lancaster County history : Ephrata Cloister, Pennsylvania Farm Museum of Landis Valley, Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania

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Date of Publication: 1985.

Call Number: 974.815 LACO T819

Place of Publication: Ephrata, Pa

Publisher: Science Press,

Date of Publication: 1985.

Physical Description: [12], 120 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 x 28 cm.

Series: Science Press keepsake ; no. 16.

Notes: This is number 52 of 1,400 copies.; LCHS copy is number 57.

Subjects: Landis, Henry K., - 1865-1955.; Landis, George Diller.; Ephrata Cloister.; Pennsylvania Farm Museum of Landis Valley.; Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania.; Museums - Pennsylvania.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.815 LACO T819

Chronicon ephratense : a history of the community of Seventh Day Baptists at Ephrata, Lancaster County, Penn'a

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Author: Lamech,

Date of Publication: 1889.

Call Number: 286.3 F822e

Responsibility: by "Lamech and Agrippa" ; translated from the original German by J. Max Hark.

Author: Lamech,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: S.H. Zahm & Co.,

Date of Publication: 1889.

Physical Description: xvi, 288 p. ; 26 cm.

Notes: Translation of Chronicon ephratense, enthaltend den lebens-lauf des ehrwÃ¼rdigen vaters in Christo Friedsam Gottrecht ... zusamen getragen von br. Lamech [i. e. Jacob Gass?] u. Agrippa [i. e. Johann Peter Miller also known as Prior Jaebez] ... Ephrata: Gedruckt anno M. DCCLXXXVI. cf. Seidensticker, First cent. of German printing in America, p. 117, and Sache, The German sectarians of Pennsylvania 142-1800, p. 471.; No. 10, no. 182, no. 232.

Subjects: Beissel, Conrad, - 1690-1768.; Ephrata Cloister.; Seventh-Day Baptists - Pennsylvania.; Germans - Pennsylvania.

Additional Author: Miller, Johann Peter,; Hark, J. Max

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 286.3 F822e

Historical archaeology at Ephrata Cloister : A report on ... investigations

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Author: Warfel, Stephen G.

Date of Publication: 1993

Call Number: 286.3 W274

Responsibility: by Stephen G. Warfel.

Author: Warfel, Stephen G.

Place of Publication: Harrisburg

Publisher: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission,

Date of Publication: 1993

Physical Description: v. : ill., map ; 22 cm.

Notes: Each edition contains the year of the investigations that the edition covers; for example : A report of 1994 investigations.; Library has: 1993-1999, 2002-3; Includes bibliographical references.

Subjects: Ephrata Cloister.; Excavations (Archaeology) - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Archaeology - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Ephrata (Pa.) - Antiquities.; Ephrata (Pa.) - Buildings, structures, etc.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 286.3 W274

The music of the Ephrata cloister; also Conrad Beissel's treatise on music as set forth in a preface to the "Turtel taube" of 1747, amplified with fac-simile reproductions of parts of the text and some original Ephrata music of the Weyrauchs hÃ¼gel, 1739; Rosen und lilien, 1745; Turtel taube, 1747; Choral buch, 1754, etc

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Author: Sachse, Julius Friedrich,

Date of Publication: 1903.

Call Number: 286.3 S121

Responsibility: By Julius Friedrich Sachse.

Author: Sachse, Julius Friedrich,

Place of Publication: Lancaster

Publisher: Printed for the author,

Date of Publication: 1903.

Physical Description: 108 p. front., illus. (incl. music) plates, port., facsim. 26 cm.

Notes: Initials; head and tail pieces.; "Reprinted from volume XII, Proceedings of the Pennsylvania-German society."; "Beissel's Dissertation on harmony. Translation by the Rev. J. F. Ohl": p. [70]-79.; "Appendix: A page of Ephrata theosophy. Read at the annual meeting of the Pennsylvania German society, Ephrata, Penna., October 20, 1899 ... Lancaster, Pa., 1903": p. [93]-106.

Subjects: Ephrata Cloister.; Church music

Additional Author: Beissel, Conrad,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 286.3 S121

History of Ephrata, Pa., and its cloister/ by Milton H. Heinicke

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Author: Heinicke, Milton H.,

Date of Publication: ca. 1956.

Call Number: 286.3 H469

Author: Heinicke, Milton H.,

Place of Publication: Typescript

Date of Publication: ca. 1956.

Physical Description: various paging: maps. ; 28 cm.

Contents: Letter to Elizabeth Keifer detailing his research - Appraisal of Adam Koningmacher's estate - The Gibbons tract, Bird-in-Hand, Lancaster County, Pa. (map and text) - [Indenture:] James Gibbons to Moses Brinton - Founding of the German Baptist Sabbatarian Congregation, Conestoga, 172?-1732 Foreward - First early English land grants - Pennsylvania granted to William Penn,1681 - Founding of the German Baptist Sabbatarian Congretation Conestoga, 1721-1732 (map) - Conestoga German Baptist Congregaton (map) - Founding of the Germapn Baptist Sabbatarians at Conestogao 1721-1732 (text) - German Seventh Day Baptist branches: Virginia - Ephrata Borough limits and underlying Penn grants (map and text) - Cloister properties with surrounding properties with date warranted (map) - Disposal of various Cloister properties (map) - Approximate location of all Cloister buildings (map) - Chronology of land in Cloister - Acquisition of 27 1/2 acres and buildings by the state including inventory of personal property - Various names by which theGermanSabbatariaons and site were known.

Subjects: Beissel, Conrad, - 1690-1768.; Ephrata Cloister.; Seventh-Day Baptists - Pennsylvania.; Germans - Pennsylvania.; Ephrata (Pa.) - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 286.3 H469

History of Ephrata Pa., and its cloister : Recorded disposal of 255 acre plots

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Author: Heinicke, Milton H.,

Call Number: 974.815 EPHB H468h

Responsibility: by Milton H. Heinicke.

Author: Heinicke, Milton H.,

Place of Publication: Typescript

Physical Description: 1,17 p. : hand-drawn maps. ; 28 cm.

Subjects: Ephrata Cloister.; Ephrata (Pa.) - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 974.815 EPHB H468h

A new Ephrata imprint--Donegal Street, Lancaster

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Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Date of Publication: 1900-1901

Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.5

Responsibility: by F. R. Diffenderffer.

Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1900-1901

Physical Description: [134]-143 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 5, no. 6

Subjects: Beissel, Conrad, - 1690-1768.; Ephrata Cloister.; Donegal Street (Lancaster, Pa.); Ephrata (Pa.) - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Journal

Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.5

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