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Furoris Anabaptistici Monasterium inclytam Westphaliae metropolim evertentis historica narratio.

Author/Creator:
Kerssenbroch, Hermann von, approximately 1520-1585.
Format/Description:
Manuscript
370 leaves : paper ; 330 x 210 mm + 2 notes
Production:
[Germany], [1700??]
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Standardized Title:
Anabaptistici furoris Monasterium inclitam Westphaliae metropolim evertentis historica narratio
Subjects:
Anabaptists -- Germany -- Münster in Westfalen -- History.
Anabaptists.
History.
Münster in Westfalen (Germany) -- History.
Germany -- History -- 1517-1648.
Germany.
Germany -- Münster in Westfalen.
Form/Genre:
Codices.
Histories.
Polemics.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, European.
Language:
Latin, with a few technical terms in Greek.
Biography/History:
Teacher and historian who lived in Münster until 1533 and wrote this account about thirty years after the 1534 rebellion.
Summary:
A history of the Anabaptist presence in Münster during the early 16th century, especially focusing on the 1534 rebellion. Kerssenbroch focuses primarily on the military and political developments rather than merely on religious aspects of the Anabaptists. In the process, he gives a brief history of Munster, and also describes the city, its people, and its customs. Although Kerssenbroch attempts to appear impartial and unbiased, his pro-Catholic biases are made very clear through scathing remarks towards the Anabaptists, as well as towards Lutherans. Kerssenbroch's narrative consists predominately of his own experiences, the published accounts of others, and some oral accounts from loyal acquaintances (f. 1r). Includes portions of documents translated by Kerssenbroch related to the rebellion, such as the prince-bishop's correspondence. Includes two notes - one with some figures, and the other with the remnant of a wax seal.
Contents:
1. f.1r-2r: Candidis lectoribus salutem.
2. f.2v: Caput Primum: in quo ostenditur, respublicas a deo everti propter flagitia.
3. f.2v- 4v: Caput Secundum: Monasteriensis urbis initia describens.
4. f.4v-6r: Caput Tertium: de situ urbis ac natura loci, hominumque.
5. f.6r-8r: Caput Quartum: de munitionibus urbis.
6. f.8v-22r: Caput Quintum: templorum urbis descriptiones continens.
7. f.22r-27v: Caput Sextum: de locis aedificiisque publicis ac privatis deque munditie urbis, et moribus quibusdam.
8. f.27v-28v: Caput Septum: de duplici in urbe judicio.
9. f.29r-34v: Caput Octavum: de divisione incolarum urbis.
10. f.34v-38v: Caput Nonum: de ostentis et prodigiis quae Westphalicos motus et urbis Monasteriensis excidium praedicentini.
11. f.38v-46r: Anno 1524 et ab 1525 acta.
12. f.46r-47r: Anno 1526.
13. f.47r-50r: Anno 1527 acta.
14. f.50r-54v: Anno 1531 acta.
15. f.54v-179r: Anno 1532 acta.
16. f.179r-238r: Annus 1533.
17. f.238r-320v: Annus 1534.
18. f.320v-345v: Annus 1535.
19. f.345v-368v: Annus 1536 [-1553].
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. i recto).
Foliation: Paper, 370 leaves; [i], 1-78, 80-176, 178-222, [xlvii], 280-294, [i], 296-297, [i], 299, [i], 301, [8], 310-311, [ii], 314-316, [i], 318-320, [i], 322, [i], 324-325, [i], 327, [i], 329, [iii], 333, [ii], 335-336, [iii], 340, [ii], 343, [i], 345, [i], 347-349, [i], 352-353, [iv], 358, [xxi], 369, [i] on upper right recto. Contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. Modern foliation (1-369) in pencil, lower right recto. References in record are to modern foliation.
Script: Written in an italic cursive script.
Binding: Leather and paper (rebound).
Watermark: Initials I D M (f. i); initials I V A S (f. 1). A third watermark too faint to decipher appears in a majority of the book (example on f. 3).
Origin: Written in Germany, circa 1700 (Zacour-Hirsch).
Incipit: Quamvis viri doctissimi tam ligata quam soluta oratione latine germanice de furore anabaptistici, qui monasterium inclitam totious Saxoniae... (f. 1r). Explicit: Faxit deus optimus maximus ut ad gloriam nominis sui et reipublicae tranquillitatem quam diutissime utantur. (f. 369v).
Penn Provenance:
Formerly owned by Henry Charles Lea (bookplate, inside upper cover; inscription dated 1886, f. i recto).
Cited in:
Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 186 (Ms. Lea 191).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 1208
Contributor:
Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909, former owner.
OCLC:
232639642