Ms. Codex 1114 - Franckfurter Blumgarten oder geistliches Gedenckzeichenn, darin underschiedliche li

Ms. Codex 1114 - Franckfurter Blumgarten oder geistliches Gedenckzeichenn, darin underschiedliche lieb- und tugentriechende Bluhmen seind gepflantzetThis hand-sewn booklet contains a rhymed poem entitled Eingang, dedicated by the author, Bertram Reinartz, on the title page to the officials of the city of Frankfurt am Main. In a preface 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 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. Spring is surely powerful! It was written in Burggrefenrod (i.e. Burg-Gräfenrode, Hesse, Germany), circa 1695.Click here to see this very nice manuscript in its facsimile, or here to read additional information. -- source link

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