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Collection: Ephrata Cloister Collection

Title: Ephrata Cloister Collection

Object ID: MG0081

Date Range: 1753-2007

Content Note: The Ephrata Cloister Collection contains items related 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

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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: See also the Photograph and Library collections

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Series #, Box #, Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).

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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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Bookplate

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Collection: Heritage Center Collection

Object ID: P.98.52.1

Date Range: c. 1750

Collection: Heritage Center Collection

Description: Bookplate on a page from a Martyrs Mirror, done in the style of Ephrata Cloister with a flowing hand using strong, bold letters. Letters are black with green and orange infill. Bookplate simply reads: "Carl/ Christo/ phel." One flower is at top right and a stylized pot with plant having 3 flowers is at lower left. Page is float-mounted in a window mat with a handmade cherry frame.; Ephrata Cloister, Lancaster Co.; Removed from Martyrs Mirror by a previous owner (Evelyn Good) due to water damage to the book which was then discarded. The opposing page was also saved and is mounted in Mylar on reverse side of frame. It carries a ghost image of the bookplate; string from binding is visible.; Acquired with typewritten inscription mounted on back of frame states: "BOOKPLATE MADE FOR CARL CHRISTOPHEL FOR/ HIS COPY OF THE EPHRATA MARTYR'S MIRROR-1748./ WORK OF SISTER ANASTASIA THE PEN-ARTIST OF THE CLOISTER ABC PATTERN BOOK OF LETTERS."; According to Clarke Hess, the penwork is by an unknown Ephrata Cloister artist. Clarke notes that Carl Christophel was a deacon at New Danville Mennonite Church in Conestoga Twp.(now Pequea Twp.) He died in 1767.; In Masonic Lodge Fraktur exhibit for several years. Removed circa 2008.; On short-term exhibit at Historical Society of Cocalico Valley, 2010.; Unknown Ephrata Cloister artist

Provenance: Dr. Robbins purchased framed pages from Evelyn Yingst Good's sale, Sat., May 11, 1991, lot #152, for $3,800. Evelyn Good was an Ephrata librarian. Valued at $5000, Robbins sold to museum for $2,500, donating the other half. Irene Walsh then reimbursed museum for the $2,500.

Date Range: c. 1750

Year Range From: 1750

Year Range To: 1760

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: DAC

Storage Wall: Island 5

Storage Cabinet: Unit 43

Storage Shelf: Shelf 2

Storage Drawer: Slot 7

People: Christophel, Carl

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Subject: Bookplate; Fraktur

Search Terms: Bookplates; Fraktur; Ephrata Cloister

Object Name: Bookplate

Oither Names: Fraktur

Material: Paper, Ink

Height (in): 14

Width (in): 8.75

Dimension Details: Frame is H: 18" W: 13.5

Condition: Good

Condition Date: 2016-10-24

Condition Notes: Acid burned edges are brown; soiled along outside edges; stains and foxing. Moisture stain at top left. Remains of binding still attached at left. Moisture staining at upper left corner. Two minor tears at top center, with ragged edges overall. Paper losses within black ink.; Conserved by Marilyn Kemp Weidner of Phila.

Object ID: P.98.52.1

Place of Origin: Ephrata

Credit: Acquired through the generosity of Irene Walsh and Dr. Warren Robbins, Heritage Center Collection

Accession Number: P.98.52

A collection of modern entries, or, Select pleadings in the Courts of King's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer : viz. declarations, pleas in abatement and in bar, replications, rejoinders, &c., demurrers, issues, verdicts, judgments, forms of making up records of nisi prius, and entring of judgments, &c., in most actions. Many of them drawn or perused by Mr. Broderick, Carthew, Comyns, Darnel ... and other learned counsel. As also special assignments of errors, and writs and proceedings thereupon, both in the said courts and in Parliament. With the method of suing to and reversing outlawries by writ of error or otherwise. To which is added a collection of writs in most cases now in practice. With two tables, one of the names of the cases, and the other of the pleadings and writs

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21773

Author: Lilly, John,

Edition: The 3rd ed.

Date of Publication: 1758.

Call Number: Book 728 1758

Responsibility: by John Lilly.

Author: Lilly, John,

Edition: The 3rd ed.

Place of Publication: [London] in the Savoy

Publisher: Printed by H. Lintot for D. Browne ... [et al.],

Date of Publication: 1758.

Physical Description: 4 preliminary leaves, 676, [30] pages ; 36 cm

Notes: Error in paging: no. 361-362 omitted; no. 377-378 duplicated.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 728 as assigned by Yeates.

Subjects: Pleading - Great Britain.; Civil procedure - Great Britain.; Forms (Law) - Great Britain.; Civil procedure.; Forms (Law); Pleading.; Great Britain.; Full leather (Binding); Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Additional Corporate Author: Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.; Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas.; Great Britain. Court of Exchequer.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 728 1758

Estate Inventory

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/5b8d43da-8bec-4bf2-9e0d-173884991900

Collection: Estate Inventories

Object ID: Inv 1759 F002 R

Collection: Estate Inventories

Year: 1759

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Container: Box 0099

People: Riblet, Abraham; Ribled, Abraham; Rieblet, Abraham

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Place: Lancaster

Object Name: Estate Inventory

Object ID: Inv 1759 F002 R

Box Number: 099

Additional Notes: Or Ribled, Abraham. Rieblet, Abraham in will book.; Also administrators' account 1761.; Please use photocopy.; 2 items, 2 pieces