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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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Source of acquisition--Berol, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred C. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1964. Accession number--M-64.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
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 description of each item, look under the entry "Ephrata Manuscripts" in the manuscript card catalog.
Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 06/--/89.
The Ephrata Cloister near Lancaster, Pa. was a Protestant religious community of German Seventh Day Baptists, founded ca. 1735.
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