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Voices of the Turtledoves by Jeff
Bach, 282 page comprehensive look at the
Ephrata Cloister community, uncovering the
basic ideology and motivation of its
founder, Conrad Beissel, and its several
hundred members. “The great contribution of
Voices of the Turtledoves is that the jargon
is deciphered, the esoteric subjects
explained, and the arcane imagery described
for modern readers.”, Donald F. Durnbaugh.
#140 $35.00 hard cover
#350 $25.00 paperback
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Ephrata Cloister, Pennsylvania trail of
history guidebook – provides a good
general over view of the Ephrata Community.
The text by John Bradley is wonderfully
complimented by 52 full color photographs by
Craig A. Benner.
#57 $10.00 paperback
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Rules of the Solitary Life –
published by the Ephrata Community in 1752
as a compilation of 244 theosophical maxims.
First translated into English in 1991 by
Michele S. Long, this 2001 reprint includes
20 illustrations by Nancy L. Coleman.
#500 $7.50 paperback
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A Peculair People, a Tale of the Ephrata
Cloister – 10 page booklet written and
illustrated by Howard Pyle and published in
Harper’s Weekly in 1889. The article and its
10 illustrations give a good perspective of
the Cloister at a specific time period.
#34 $2.95 |
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Ephrata Cloister School Booklet – an
eighteenth century textbook for children by
Ludwig Hocker, schoolmaster at the Ephrata
Cloister. 1988 English translation by Tamara
S. Groff from the original published at
Ephrata in 1786. 50 pages of useful
information in the education of children
from religious study to math, and even
includes recipes for both black and red ink.
#300 $3.95 paperback
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Works of Patience being a description
of the texts found on the Wall Charts of the
Ephrata Cloister. The German text and
English translation of the thirteen known
surviving wall charts from the Ephrata
Community. 30 pages produced as a fund
raiser by the Ephrata Cloister Student
Historians.
#8WC $5.00 |
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Ephrata Cloister Chorales, a
collection of 10 hymns composed by Conrad
Beissel, edited with German and English
translation by Russell P. Getz.
#133 $4.95 |
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The Music of the Ephrata Cloister by
Lucy Carroll, D.M.A. A 28 page booklet
describing some unique qualities of the
Ephrata music. Includes a brief history,
musical notation, voice parts, performance
and references for additional reading.
Donated by Dr. Carroll as a fund raiser for
The Ephrata Cloister Chorus.
#70 $5.00 |
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Linen and Wool – Two books describing
and illustrating the processing of linen and
wool. The Story of Linen includes actual
examples of flax seed, flax stalk, flax
fibers, linen thread, and linen fabric,
along with 12 illustrations. The Story of
Wool includes actual examples of fleece,
rolag, wool yarn, cloth from the loom, cloth
after fulling, along with 9 illustrations.
These books are produced as a fund raiser by
the Ephrata Cloister Student Historians and
are $5.00 each.
Story of Linen - #8L $5.00
The Story of Wool - #8W $5.00
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The
Martyr’s Mirror – The largest book
printed in Colonial America was translated
from Holland Dutch into German, printed and
bound by the Brothers of the Ephrata
Community in 1748. The story of sixteen
centuries of Christian Martyrdom from the
time of Christ to 1660 compiled by Thieleman
J. van Braght. This edition with 1158 pages
was printed in 2002.
#139 $45.00 hard cover |
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Christian
Mystics, their lives and legacies
throughout the ages by Ursula King. A clear
and comprehensive introduction to Christian
mystical tradition through the biographies
of sixty men and women. Highly readable,
beginning with early Christians and
progressing to the Middle Ages and early
modern period. 268 pages
#73 $20.00 paperback |
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Flying
Leaves and One Sheets, Pennsylvania German
Broadsides, Fraktur, and their Printers
by Russell and Corinne Earnest. Covering a
wide range of subjects including mystical
texts, home remedies, the supernatural,
poetry, social issues, certificates and
more, these broadsides provide insight into
the minds of Pennsylvania Germans in the New
World. 337 pages illustrated in full color.
#470 $95.00 hard cover
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Fraktur: Folk Art & Family by Corinne
and Russell Earnest. More than 200
photographs, present examples of three
centuries of American fraktur and includes
detailed historical information, methods and
techniques. 192 pages illustrated in full
color.
$49.95 hard cover |
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Fraktur Writings and Folk Art Drawings of
the Schwenkfelder Library Collection, by
Dennis Moyer. Focusing on examples from
southeastern Pennsylvania, it is an
introduction to the art, the people who
produced it and those that received it. 300
pages with many full color illustrations.
$70.00 hard cover
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Bucks
County Fraktur edited by Cory M. Amsler.
Richly illustrated visual record focusing on
Bucks County Pennsylvania. Examing the
spiritual, aesthetic, educational, and
economic aspects of fraktur and documenting
more than 40 schoolmaster-artists and
scriveners in Bucks County. 386 pages
illustrated in full color.
$45.00 hard cover |
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This
Teaching I Present, fraktur from the
Skippach and Salford Mennonite Meetinghouse
Schools, 1747-1836 by Mary Jane Lederach
Hershey. More than 100 examples in full
color complete with the English translation
of the German text. Hershey explores what
shaped this approach to education, the
techniques, style and what influenced the
colors and design motifs. 243 pages
$29.95 hard cover
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| A Hundred
Necessary Rules of Conduct for Children
by Christopher Dock, Mennonite Schoolmaster,
Salford and Skippack, Pennsylvania.
Originally published in 1764, this 16 page
booklet contains all one hundred rules
translated from the German to English by the
Honorable Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker,
historian and one time Governor of
Pennsylvania. $9.50 paperback |
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Pen, Ink
and Evidence by Joe Nickell. A study of
writing and writing materials for the
penman, collector, and document detective.
Some of the chapters include writing
instruments, writing fluids, ink containers,
papermaking, watermarks, seals, history of
written forms, penmanship, and examinig
documents. 228 pages
$29.95 paperback |
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Mennonite
Arts by Clarke Hess, a pioneer work
presenting the rich and diverse decorative
arts produced by the Mennonite communities
in Europe, Pennsylvania and Canada over a
300 year period. Derived from private
collections these traditional textiles,
furniture, clocks, wooden boxes, carvings,
metals, pottery, and fraktur from Mennonite
families are carefully identified and
displayed in hundreds of color images on 190
pages
$49.95 hard cover
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Coverlets
and the Spirit of America by Joseph D.
Shein and Melinda Zongor. Over 100 coverlets
from the Joseph and Janet Shein collection,
including many early and rare pieces, are
shown in full, in color and on both sides –
unprecedented in other references on the
subject. 221 pages
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Spinning
Wheels and Accessories by David A.
Pennington & Michael B. Taylor. Over 350
color photos go with painstaking research
where the emphasis remains the American
spinning wheel from 1775 to 1900. They do
have substantial sections on European wheels
and textile tools and accessories, Shaker
wheels, patent wheels, famous makers, chair
wheels, and more. 224 pages with appendix
with over 1000 makers and their marks.
$59.95 hard cover
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Rural
Pennsylvania German Weaving 1833-1857 and
the Christian Frey and Henry Small, Jr.
Pattern Books by Tandy and Charles Hersh.
153 pages includes chapters on weavers, the
hand weaving business, professional weaving,
and rural cloth making. Also included are
the weaving pattern books of Henry Small,
Jr. and Christian Frey.
$30.00 spiral bound |
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