Apparently Rambach trained as a carpenter but then turned to theology. I'm guessing this is his hymn book. https://translate.google.com/transl...nn_Jakob_Rambach_(Theologe,_1693)&prev=search People press all sorts of things in books. I have a 19th C German bible that has scraps of fabric scattered throughout. I really wonder if the church ladies of the day didn't get together and swap this or that over tea. (Other people find the books that have money scattered throughout - not me.)
HA!!! Was wondering what you meant by "An obscure HAIRY book"!!!!! And now I know!! Can anyone translate the handwritten part??
Could be sermons on the Passion. Apparently Bach was a fan: https://books.google.ca/books?id=y8iVDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT262&lpg=PT262&dq=rambach+harmonischen+beschreibung&source=bl&ots=eY-1eCA74D&sig=ACfU3U002TrY95_e2ijKlozB2XlvBKKl6Q&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwju67r7iPDpAhUAj3IEHUpIDFUQ6AEwAHoECAUQAQ#v=onepage&q=rambach harmonischen beschreibung&f=false
sorry, needs an explanation, doesn't it. what has it to do with my book ? it stood between Michael Bakunin and Johann Most in the vicinity of Emma Goldman... was Jesus not only blond but also an anarchist ?
"More other stuff said: Other people find the books that have money scattered throughout - not me." I'd take the fabric and ribbon scraps any day including Sunday! Leslie
I think this is the 1732 edition of the book mentioned in that passage. As such, it's a collection of sermons. The passage describes it as "Rambach's most popular book".
it was in possession of a yokel that lived "in den Steinhalten" in Lauterbrunnen. written with amazing certainty and rather clean fingers in Deutscher Kurrentschift. the title is "Betrachtungen über das ganze Leiden Christi Im Oelgarten, vor dem geistlichen Gericht der Juden etc. blabla. after the four Evangelists etc. so no sermon but the sufferings of Christ told after the evaneglists. !!! Andere Auflage!!! other edition - interesting that all editions after the original were then simply called "other". the most interesting are the pressed flowers - Edelweiss and another one - the hair which was quite normal at the time as a small memento mori from an deceased parent. price as usual on the fantasy side of things... the most expensive is the hair and the edelweiss IMO . https://www.zvab.com/servlet/Search...eiden christi oelgarten&cm_sp=mbc-_-ats-_-all most probably a giveaway in our xmas gift department this year...
I've got a 1739 Basel printing of the thing - scarcer in the States, but no more desirable, alas. And no hair or flowers, thank goodness! The nicest thing is the engraved frontispiece - always gets the Colonials worked up.
I really like this owner marks, although I always struggle with old German hand writing. Do i read Lauterbrunnen (Switzerland)? Years ago I started investigating letters from a German WW I soldier and his wife (Eugen and Katschen Meier). I gave up that time because I struggled too much reading all the post cards: Her writing: His writing: The Maier collection (1900-1917)
