Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• Reinartz, Bertram

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4256140
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4256140

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

circa 1695

Place

Burggrefenrod (i.e. Burg-Gräfenrode, Hesse, Germany)

Summary

Hand-sewn booklet containing a rhymed poem entitled Eingang (f. 4r), dedicated by the author, Bertram Reinartz, on the title page to the officials (Schultheyss, Burgermeister, und Raht) of the city of Frankfurt am Main. In a preface (f. 2r-3v) addressed to these same officials, Reinartz indicates that the work is a gift on the occasion of the new year, and is offered in gratitude for beneficence that they have shown him in the previous year; below his name (f. 3v) he titles himself as a former Franciscan preacher, Kölnische Provinz (Cologne province), and newly appointed pastor in Burg-Gräfenrode (nuhn mehr aber designirter Pfarrer zu Burggrefenrod in der Wetteraw). In the preface, he praises the wisdom and virtue of the officials while comparing them to flowers, citing Bible verses and an anecdote of Pliny. The poem is composed of 70 numbered stanzas. The speaker describes the flowers he encountered in Frankfurt as symbolic of Christian virtues and ends with a wish for the city officials to be blessed and to enter paradise.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   

Extent

Foliation

Support

Binding

Layout

Decoration

Pen-and-ink drawings of flowers (f. 1v and recto of f. 5-12).

Script

Provenance

• Sold by August Hase (Frankfurt am Main), 1958.
   

Subjects topical

• Franciscans--Germany
• Flowers--Poetry
• Flowers--Germany

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts, German--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 1v — Drawing, Flower, f. 1v
• fol. 5r — Drawing, Flowers, f. 5r
• fol. 6r — Drawing, Flowers, f. 6r
• fol. 7r — Drawing, Flowers, f. 7r
• fol. 8r — Drawing, Flowers, f. 8r
• fol. 9r — Drawing, Flowers, f. 9r
• fol. 10r — Drawing, Flowers, f. 10r
• fol. 11r — Drawing, Flowers, f. 11r
• fol. 12r — Drawing, Flowers, f. 12r