4078737Ephrata Cloister manuscript collection4078737Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-09-15 20:20:03 -0400.Englishappm2025-09-12Volumes added Rare Book and Manuscript Library Ephrata Cloister manuscript collection Ephrata Cloister 4078737 Ephrata Ms English German /repositories/2/resources/2515 2 Linear Feet 12 volumes 1747-early 1800s Immediate Source of Acquisition

Source of acquisition--Berol, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred C. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1964. Accession number--M-64.

 Biographical / Historical

The Ephrata Cloister near Lancaster, Pennsylvania was a Protestant religious community of German Seventh Day Baptists, founded circa 1735. More information about the Cloister can be found in the scholarly literature.

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The catalog entries for these manuscripts were prepared from notes provided by L. Allen Viehmeyer, Assistant Professor of German, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, Ohio. For a detailed description of each item, email rbml@columbia.edu for a copy of the catalog cards.

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Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 06/--/89.

 Summary

Printed books and music manuscripts of the Ephrata Cloister. "Manuscripts" 1-6 are printed books by Johan Conrad Beissel (1690-1768) some with manuscript musical notation. Manuscripts 7-12 are volumes of manuscript musical notation of melodies for hymn texts in various printed books. Most of this collection relates to Beissel's DAS GESÄNG DER..TURTEL-TAUBE, 1747.

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This collection is located onsite.

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 Seventh-Day Baptists -- Pennsylvania Christian communities -- Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Dutch -- Pennsylvania Music Scores (documents for music) Hymns Beissel, Conrad, 1690-1768 Ephrata Cloister Das Gesäng der einsamen und verlassenen Turtel-Taube Nemlich der Christlichen Kirche/repositories/2/archival_objects/176646517471Scope and Contents

Evans 5959

Ein Angenehmer Geruch der Rosen und Lilien.../repositories/2/archival_objects/176646617562Scope and Contents

Evans 7610. Additional titles bound-with, see cards

Deliciae Ephratenses/repositories/2/archival_objects/176646717733Scope and Contents

Evans 12666

Erster Theil der Theosophischen Lectionen/repositories/2/archival_objects/176646817524Scope and Contents

Evans 6840

Urständliche und Erfahrungsvolle Hohe Zeugnüsse wie man zum Geistlichen Leben und dessen Vollommenheit gelangen möge./repositories/2/archival_objects/176646917455Scope and Contents

Evans 5538

Paradisisches Wunder-Spiel.../repositories/2/archival_objects/176647017666Scope and Contents

Evans 10239

Paradisisches Wunder-Spiel.../repositories/2/archival_objects/176647117547Scope and Contents

Evans 7147

Die Bittre Gute, oder das Gesäng der einsamen Turtel-Taube der Christlichen Kirche hier auf Erden.../repositories/2/archival_objects/176647217478[Zionitischer Weyrauchs Hügel]/repositories/2/archival_objects/17664731700s9[Das Gesäng der ... Turtel-Taube]/repositories/2/archival_objects/17664741700s or early 1800s10[Das Gesäng der ... Turtel-Taube]/repositories/2/archival_objects/1766475mid 1700s11[Zionitischer Weyrauchs Hügel]/repositories/2/archival_objects/17664761700s12