Research Catalog

Title

The ancient and modern history of the Brethren, or, A succinct narrative of the Protestant Church of the United Brethren or Unitas Fratrum in the remoter ages and particularly in the present century / written in German by David Cranz ... ; now translated into English, with emendations, and published, with some additional notes, by Benjamin La Trobe.

Author

Cranz, David, 1723-1777

Publication

London : Printed by W. and A. Strahan, and sold by J. Robson ... T. Cadell ... C. Dilly ... and at the settlements and chapels of the congregations of the Brethren, 1780.

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Details

Additional Authors

• La Trobe, Benjamin, 1725-1786.
• Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, Bookplate.

Description

[16], 621, [91] pages; 22 cm

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2021-2024).

Uniform Title

Alte und neue Brüder-Historie. English

Alternative Title

• Alte und neue Brüder-Historie.
• Succinct narrative of the Protestant Church of the United Brethren or Unitas Fratrum in the remoter ages and particularly in the present century

Subjects

• Bookplates (Provenance
• Inscriptions (Provenance)
• History
• Early works
• Moravian Church
• Bohemian Brethren
• Bohemian Brethren History > Early works to 1800
• Moravian Church History > Early works to 1800

Genre/Form

• Early works.
• History.
• Inscriptions (Provenance)
• Bookplates (Provenance.

Note

• Translation of: Alte und neue Brüder-Historie, oder, Kurz gefasste Geschichte der Evangelischen Brüderunität in den ältern Zeiten und insonderheit in dem gegenwärtigen Jahrhundert.
• Signatures: A-2Y⁸ 2Z⁴.
• The last two leaves contain, respectively, advertisement and errata.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (prelim. pages 13-16) and index.

Indexed In (note)

• Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time
• New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall.

Provenance (note)

• Copy in Sc Rare 284-C (accession no. D286256) includes NYPL's bookplate of: Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, inscribed in ink on recto of the first endleaf: "To the Revd. Mr Mosse from the Mdam of the late Rev.'d Mrs. Armstrong, Wheeling va. November 1830, by the hands of [J. Thos. Wheat]," and also includes stamps: the{28}Star

Call Number

Sc Rare 284-C (Cranz, D. The Ancient and modern history of the Brethren)

LCCN

85101448

OCLC

12370546

Author

Cranz, David, 1723-1777, author.

Title

The ancient and modern history of the Brethren, or, A succinct narrative of the Protestant Church of the United Brethren or Unitas Fratrum in the remoter ages and particularly in the present century / written in German by David Cranz ... ; now translated into English, with emendations, and published, with some additional notes, by Benjamin La Trobe.

Publisher

London : Printed by W. and A. Strahan, and sold by J. Robson ... T. Cadell ... C. Dilly ... and at the settlements and chapels of the congregations of the Brethren, 1780.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (prelim. pages 13-16) and index.

Indexed In:

Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 17411

New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall., v. 2, page 1734, column 1 row 6

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 284-C (accession no. D286256) includes NYPL's bookplate of: Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, inscribed in ink on recto of the first endleaf: "To the Revd. Mr Mosse from the Mdam of the late Rev.'d Mrs. Armstrong, Wheeling va. November 1830, by the hands of [J. Thos. Wheat]," and also includes stamps: the{28}Star, NN

Local Note

The Schomburg Center Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Book Division's copy is (Sept. 4, 1942 -- G.K. Halls) one of the books added to the collection when Catherine A. Latimer, collection librarian, and Lawrence Reddick, Curator.

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Place of Publication

Great Britain England London.

Added Author

La Trobe, Benjamin, 1725-1786.

Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, Bookplate.

Reddick, Lawrence Dunbar, 1910-1995, Curator.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 284-C (Cranz, D. The Ancient and modern history of the Brethren)

*KF 1780 (Cranz, D. Ancient and modern history of the Brethren)