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Geschichte der wiedertäufer zu Münster in Westphalen, Nebst einer beschreibung der hauptstadt dieses landes / Aus einer lateinischen handschrift Hermann von Kerssenbroich übersetzt ; Mit kupfern.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kerssenbroch, Hermann von, approximately 1520-1585.
- Language:
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Anabaptists--Germany--Münster in Westfalen--History.
- Anabaptists.
- History.
- Germany--Münster in Westfalen.
- Penn Provenance:
- Trippe, Joseph (stamp)
- Physical Description:
- 6 unnumbered pages, 548, 276 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Frankfurt a.M.] : Auf kosten des uebersetzers, 1771.
- Notes:
- Head and tail pieces; ornamented initials.
- "Historia anabaptistarum monasteriensium ... was written on a broad scale, forming a history of the whole city from 1524-1554. ... This work was published in 1730 at Leipzig by Mencke in `Scriptores rerum germanicorum' vol. III, and in a German translation at Frankfort in 1771 [present edition] ... Detmer brought out a revised edition: 'Hermanni a Kerssenbroch anabaptistici furoris Monasterium inclitam Westphaliae metropolim evertentis historica narratio' (Münster 1899)"--Cf. The Catholic Encyclopedia, 1910.
- The present edition covers the period from 1524-1536.
- OCLC:
- 8084967
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