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Title

Historische Abhandlung von einigen Gottesgelehrten, welche vorher Rechtsgelehrte gewessen sind

Authors

• Ehrhardt, Siegismund Justus

Other related names

• Creidenmann, Friedrich Wilhelm, dedicatee

Call number

Ms. Codex 1159
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4295748
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4295748

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

German, with an epigraph in Latin (from a poem, De obitu Celsi, by Saint Paulinus of Nola; p. 2) and Latin titles of works, and quotations, scattered throughout; at least one quotation in Hebrew (p. 22) and one in Greek (p. 107)

Origin

Date

1754

Place

Königsberg in Bayern

Summary

Treatise in the author's hand, about scholars of theology (Gottesgelehrte) who were previously scholars of law (Rechtsgelehrte), dedicated to his friend Friedrich Wilhelm Creidenmann, of Vienna, whom he characterizes as a student of worldly wisdom and law (der Weltweissheit und Rechten rühmlich beflissenem; dedication on title page, p. 1). The work was written on the occasion of Creidenmann's departure from Königsberg in Bayern (Königsberg in Franken) in 1754, in order to complete his studies in Jena (p. 1). It is divided into 39 sections or paragraphs. A table of contents (pp. 3-4) lists an introduction (paragraphs 1-4); 32 rubrics naming figures discussed, with corresponding paragraph number (without page numbers); a 33rd rubric for a section (paragraph 38) that discusses some additional figures; and an unnumbered rubric referring to a concluding section or afterword (paragraph 39), which he says will clarify the purpose of the work. The figures discussed include Tertullian, Prudentius, Arator, Pope Gregory I, Photius, Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther, Johann Oecolampadius, and Martin Antoine Del Rio. The work is replete with scholarly citations and footnotes. The afterword (pp. 145-152) is personally addressed to Creidenmann. Ehrhardt offers the pages as a memento of the eternal friendship and love that binds them (p. 152). The manuscript contains corrections in a darker ink, apparently contemporary and in Ehrhardt's own hand; in the afterword he expresses confidence that his friend will forgive the mistakes contained in the text (p. 152).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (p. 1).
   

Extent

154 leaves : 20-23 x 165-170 (180 x 130) mm. bound to 209 x 176 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (newer paper) + 76 + i (newer paper); 1-152; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners. Catchwords on both recto and verso of leaves.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern boards, with gilt lettering and bands on spine.

Layout

Written in 32-42 long lines, with footnotes on lower portion of most pages, below a dividing line; and title of work in a running heading spanning facing pages, with paragraph numbers given on recto pages.

Script

Written in a German cursive script.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by the prince of Liechtenstein (bookplate, with coat of arms, pasted inside upper cover: Ex libris Liechtensteinianis).
   
• Sold by H. P. Kraus (New York), 1963.
   

Subjects topical

• Theologians--Biography

Genres

• Codices
• Biographies
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, German--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

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