Description of University of Pennsylvania Ms. Codex 1114: Franckfurter Blumgarten oder geistliches Gedenckzeichenn, darin underschiedliche lieb- und tugentriechende Bluhmen seind gepflantzet The University of Pennsylvania Libraries This description is ©2015 University of Pennsylvania Libraries. It is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. All referenced images and their content are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. Ms. codex. Title from title page (f. 1r). Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Rare Book & Manuscript Library Ms. Codex 1114 4256140 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4256140 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. German Franckfurter Blumgarten oder geistliches Gedenckzeichenn, darin underschiedliche lieb- und tugentriechende Bluhmen seind gepflantzet Reinartz, Bertram

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 16 leaves : 158 x 92 (123-125 x 68) mm. bound to 158 x 94 mm Paper, i + 13 + ii; [1-13]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. 20-25 long lines; frame-rule and line-ruled in pencil. Written in a formal calligraphic book script by Bertram Reinartz. Pen-and-ink drawings of flowers (f. 1v and recto of f. 5-12). Drawing, Flower, f. 1v Drawing, Flowers, f. 5r Drawing, Flowers, f. 6r Drawing, Flowers, f. 7r Drawing, Flowers, f. 8r Drawing, Flowers, f. 9r Drawing, Flowers, f. 10r Drawing, Flowers, f. 11r Drawing, Flowers, f. 12r

Contemporary paper covers (Zacour-Hirsch).

Written in Burg-Gräfenrode (today part of the city of Karben, in Hesse, Germany) in 1694 or 1695 (f. 13v).

circa 1695 Burggrefenrod (i.e. Burg-Gräfenrode, Hesse, Germany) Sold by August Hase (Frankfurt am Main), 1958. Franciscans--Germany Flowers--Poetry Flowers--Germany Codices Manuscripts, German--17th century Manuscripts, European