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  • Scribe: Braitmichel, Kaspar, d. 1573, Scribe: Artlof, Caspar ** Language: German. Supplied title: Title page and preface. Scribal title: Epistel Buech, mit fleisz Geschriben von vilen streitern und zeugen gottes, allenn frumen zum Trosst. Folio range: [2*]r-[4*]v ** Language: German. Supplied title: Index of contents. Scribal title: Register uber dises Buech. Incipit: A Anthoni Erdtfodrer Ein Urlab Brieff ann die zue Klayonfurt --- 461. Explicit: W Wilhalm Grissbacherr Ein Epistl ann die gmain 113. Folio range: [1*]r, [5*]r-[14*]v ** Language: German. Supplied title: Address to the reader. Scribal title: Dem Leserr. Incipit: Zur auffmunterung und ainer erküekung allen Gottes kindlen Sind dise hernach volgende Schone trostreiche Episteln von vilen frumen Lieb habern. Explicit: Sit laus deo. Folio range: [15*]r ** Language: German. Supplied title: Letters and devotional tracts of Hutterite Anabaptists. Author: Adams, Heinrich, d. 1558, Author: Aschelberger, Stoffel, fl. 1540, Author: Amon, Hans, d. 1542, Author: Braitmichel, Kaspar, d. 1573, Author: Denck, Hans, c.1495-1527, Author: Donner, Hans, d. c.1538, Author: Fasser, Georg, d. 1537?, Author: Felbinger, Klaus, d. 1560, Author: Fest, Ludwig, d. 1533, Author: Fichter (Füchter), Konrad (alias Kunz), d. 1532, Author: Griesbacher, Wilhelm, d. c.1536, Author: Griesinger, Onophrius (Offrus), d. 1538, Author: Gruber, Lamprecht, d. 1532, Author: Hutter, Jakob d. 1536, Author: Ka?ls, Hieronymus, d. 1536, Author: Landtsperger, Johannes, d. c.1529, Author: Langenmantel, Eitelhans (Hans), d. 1528, Author: Lanzensteil (alias Sailer, Seller), Leonard, d. 1565, Author: Lochmaier, Leonhard, d. 1538, Author: Mändl, Hans, d. 1561, Author: Mang, Hans, d. 1567, Author: Oberecker, Hans, d. 1536, Author: Peckh, Hans, fl. 1530s, Author: Riedemann, Peter, 1506-1556, Author: Roth, Leonard, d. 1541, Author: Sattler, Michael, d. 1527, Author: Schiemer, Leonhard, d. 1528, Author: Schlaffer, Hans 1490-1528, Author: Schmid, Hans, d. 1558, Author: Sega, Francesco della, 1528/32-1565, Author: Seidel, Hans, d. 1538, Author: Seifensieder, Michael, d. 1536, Author: Waldhauser, Thomas, fl. 1528. Incipit: Die erste epistel Jacob hueters an die gmain gotes in marhern. Explicit: Datum märhern den december CBM. Folio range: 1r-625v (as numbered)
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Time Period
  • 1566
Place of Origin
  • Moravia (Czech Republic)
Description
  • A collection of letters and devotional tracts of over 40 Hutterite Anabaptist leaders, dated 1566 and titled "Epistel Buech, mit fleisz Geschriben von vilen streitern und zeugen gottes, allenn frumen zum Trosst" (fol. [2*]). Written by several hands. Said to be the earliest surviving compilation of its kind and "the prototype of all later similar Anabaptist codices" (Friedmann, Hutterite Studies, 302). Compilation has been attributed to Kaspar Braitmichel (d. 1573) by Eberhard Arnold and Friedmann, although later suggested to have been written by Caspar Artlof, a clothier, near Slavkov u Brna [Austerlitz], Czech Republic. The first leaf is bound out of place
  • it should precede the "Register," which it describes. Diagram on fol. 240. See Friedmann for register of contents.
Call Number
  • LL/002 Epistel Buech 1566
Contributors
  • Records created or enhanced by the Peripheral Manuscript Project’s Description team, led by Dr. Elizabeth K. Hebbard and Dr. Sarah L. Noonan.
Source Identifier
  • goc_001_001
Keywords
  • Devotion
  • Collection of letters
  • Prayer book
  • Annotated
  • Christian
  • Czech Republic
  • Diagrams
Title
  • Hutterite letter collection
Author
  • Denck, Hans, c.1495-1527
  • Griesinger, Onophrius (Offrus), d. 1538
  • Seidel, Hans, d. 1538
  • Oberecker, Hans, d. 1536
  • Adams, Heinrich, d. 1558
  • Langenmantel, Eitelhans (Hans), d. 1528
  • Amon, Hans, d. 1542
  • Peckh, Hans, fl. 1530s
  • Roth, Leonard, d. 1541
  • Ka?ls, Hieronymus, d. 1536
  • Lochmaier, Leonhard, d. 1538
  • Griesbacher, Wilhelm, d. c.1536
  • Sega, Francesco della, 1528/32-1565
  • Braitmichel, Kaspar, d. 1573
  • Riedemann, Peter, 1506-1556
  • Waldhauser, Thomas, fl. 1528
  • Fasser, Georg, d. 1537?
  • Gruber, Lamprecht, d. 1532
  • Fest, Ludwig, d. 1533
  • Mändl, Hans, d. 1561
  • Lanzensteil (alias Sailer, Seller), Leonard, d. 1565
  • Hutter, Jakob d. 1536
  • Aschelberger, Stoffel, fl. 1540
  • Seifensieder, Michael, d. 1536
  • Landtsperger, Johannes, d. c.1529
  • Mang, Hans, d. 1567
  • Donner, Hans, d. c.1538
  • Felbinger, Klaus, d. 1560
  • Schlaffer, Hans 1490-1528
  • Schiemer, Leonhard, d. 1528
  • Fichter (Füchter), Konrad (alias Kunz), d. 1532
  • Schmid, Hans, d. 1558
  • Sattler, Michael, d. 1527
Physical Description
  • Physical type: Codex. Support material: Paper (material). Extent: ii + 16 + 622 + ii (16 unnumbered folios, followed by 625 [actually 622] numbered folios. The numeration skips fols. 231, 300, and 433). Collation: Undetermined due to tightness of binding. Foliation - Pagination: Sixteen unfoliated leaves, thereafter foliated 2-230, 232-299, 301-432, 434-625. Catchwords: none. Signatures: none. Bound dimensions (in mm): 196 x 150 x 85. Page dimensions (in mm): 189 x 141. Written area (in mm): 158 x 112, column width 55mm. Script: Gothic. Script type: Cursiva Script type: Quadrata. Layout: Two columns, bounded in red and black but unruled, 30-39 lines. Running heads, marginalia in red. Decoration: Titles in red and black engrossing script (Fraktur). Binding: Mid twentieth century, red and black leather, two metal clasps.
Language
  • German
Persistent URL
Source Metadata Identifier
  • goc_001_001
Associated Names
  • Artlof, Caspar (Scribe)
  • Braitmichel, Kaspar, d. 1573 (Scribe)
Date Created
  • 16th century
Owning Institution
  • Goshen College Mennonite Historical Library Special Collections. Goshen, IN.
Provenance
  • Written in Moravia in 1566. From there, the codex likely travelled in continuous Hutterite possession to Transylvania, then to Ukraine, before coming to South Dakota in the 1870s. Owned in 1930 by members of the Rockport Bruderhof in South Dakota, where seen by Eberhard Arnold. Subsequently rebound. Owned by members of a Lehrerleut Hutterian Brethren colony in Montana. Acquired by Goshen College by 1958.
Bibliographic Citation
  • Friedmann, Robert. “Oldest Known Hutterite Codex of 1566: A Chapter in Anabaptist Intellectual History.” The Mennonite Quarterly Review 33 (1959): 96–107.
  • Graz, Wien, Köln, Böhlau in Kommission: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1965.
  • Packull, Werner O. Hutterite Beginnings: Communitarian Experiments during the Reformation. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
  • Friedmann, Robert. Hutterite Studies. MacGregor, Man: Hutterian Brethren Book Centre, 1961.
  • Eberhard, Arnold. Verzeichnis Der Alten Bücher Und Schriften Auf Den Hutterischen Bruderhöfen in South Dakota, Manitoba Und Alberta. Auf Seiner Reise Zu Den Brüdern, 1930.
  • Kliewer, Elisabeth, and Hutterite Brethren Church, eds. Die Hutterischen Epistel, 1527 bis 1767. 1st printing. Elie, Manitoba: James Valley Book Centre, 1986.
  • Friedmann, Robert. Die Schriften Der Huterischen Täufergemeinschaften: Gesamtkatalog Ihrer Manuskriptbücher, Ihrer Schreiber Und Ihrer Literatur 1529-1667. Denkschriften (Österreichische Akademie Der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse) 86. Wien

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