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A unique manuscript by Rev. Peter Miller (Brother Jabez) prior of the Ephrata Community, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania ; written for Benjamin Franklin ; together with a fac-simile and translation of Beissel's 99 mystical proverbs, originally printed by Benjamin Franklin in 1730 ; comp. at the request of the Executive committee of the Pennsylvania-German society by Julius F. Sachse
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Pennsylvania-German Society. Proceedings and addresses, 1912 ; v. 21.
- Proceedings and addresses, 1912 ; v. 21
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ephrata Cloister.
- Physical Description:
- 44 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lancaster, PA : Society], 1912.
- Notes:
- A facsimile reprint of t.p. and p.3-14 of Beissel's Mystische und sehr geheyme sprueche, Philadelphia, 1730, with English trranslation by Peter Miller, on opposite pages. Prefixed is a letter from Miller to Franklin, dated Ephrata, June 12, 1771, and appended is a collection of 57 short sayings from Beissel's writings.
- Also published in the same year in Pennsylvania-German Society. Proceedings and addresses ... 1912, v. 21.
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