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Title

Des Feldprediger Waldecks geführtes Tagebuch während dem letzen americanisch sic Kriege

Authors

• Waldeck, Philipp, 1750-1784

Other related names

• Rosengarten, J. G. 1835-1921, former owner
• Cronau, Rudolph, 1855-1939, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 1121
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4259943
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4259943

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

German

Origin

Date

ca. 1780-1784

Place

United States?

Summary

Diary kept by Philipp Waldeck, chaplain of the Third Waldeck Regiment, during the regiment's participation in the American Revolution on the side of the British. The diary begins with the departure of the regiment from Korbach (Hesse, Germany) on 20 May 1776, and ends with an entry on 11 March 1780, when the regiment was stationed in the vicinity of Pensacola, Florida. Throughout most of the manuscript the pages have headings that give the date and place, including localities in New York, New Jersey, Jamaica, and Florida. According to Marion Dexter Learned, this manuscript reflects editing (mainly deletions), in comparison to the manuscript version of the same diary that is owned by the New York Public Library (George Bancroft Collection), and likely was produced by Waldeck himself with an eye to presentation or publication. The manuscript ends abruptly and covers a shorter time span than the other version.

Notes

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

Extent

194 leaves : 199-206 x 163-169 (190 x 115) mm. bound to 206 x 175 mm

Foliation

Paper, fols. 194. Contemporary (?) pagination in ink, upper outer corners: 1-147, 149-201, 201-343. Blank pages throughout the manuscript (about 20 leaves) are not paginated; only 1 page with text is unpaginated (f. 40r). Modern foliation in pencil lower right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary (?) paper covers.

Layout

Written in 15-25 long lines; frame-ruled in pencil.

Script

Written in a German cursive hand by Philipp Waldeck (?).

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Prof. Dr. Schacht (Lemgo, Germany) (Learned).
   
• Formerly owned by Rudolph Cronau (New York); acquired from Schacht in or before 1907 (Learned).
   
• Gift of Joseph G. Rosengarten (Philadelphia), 1924 (note in pencil, f. 2r).
   

Subjects topical

• Waldeck (Fürstentum).--Waldeckische Regiment, 3te
• Hessian mercenaries--Diaries

Genres

• Codices
• Diaries
• Manuscripts, German--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

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