[DCRM-L] German prayer book with no information

Tue Oct 31 07:31:40 MDT 2017

I finally completed the record for this book.

It is #1007343720 if anyone cares to look at it and suggest any corrections/additions I would be grateful.

I don't get to handle that many rare books so I never get enough practice!

Thanks to everyone who made suggestions.

Dawn Grattino
Senior Catalog Librarian
Cleveland Public Library
Catalog Dept.
17133 Lakeshore Blvd.
Cleveland, OH 44110
216-623-2885
fax 216-623-6980
dawn.grattino at cpl.org
http://www.cpl.org
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Subject: Re: [DCRM-L] German prayer book with no information

Is the German language record at OCLC #934864284 a possible candidate for your volume?

  *   The author matches.
  *   The other title information in the 245 $b matches the "short title" rendered in the table of contents, which looks to be closer to the title proper anyway, since the 245 $a in the record is just the author's name and titles.
  *   The pagination is [3] leaves, 291 pages, [3] leaves -- the last equating to 6 pages rather than 5 as you describe, but perhaps the last is blank.

The record is provided by the Gemeinsamen Bibliotheksverbundes, which appears to be a German library collective. Here is a link into their union catalog for their copy of the record:
https://gso.gbv.de/DB=2.1/SET=2/TTL=1/CMD?MATCFILTER=N&MATCSET=N&ACT0=&IKT0=&TRM0=&ACT3=*&IKT3=8183&ACT=SRCHA&IKT=12&SRT=YOP&TRM=729495574&TRM3=

There is a further link into the holding library's catalog. It's non-lendable, but perhaps they can confirm the match from your PDFs, and return a PDF of the missing preliminary pages.

(Sorry to be so late to the party.)

John Myers, Catalog & Metadata Librarian
Schaffer Library, Union College
Schenectady NY 12308

518-388-6623
myersj at union.edu<mailto:myersj at union.edu>

On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 10:31 AM, dawn.grattino <dawn.grattino at cpl.org<mailto:dawn.grattino at cpl.org>> wrote:

Please help! I have on my desk a small German book that contains prayers and/or hymns.

There is no Title page, no title, no publisher, no year. The only thing I have is the name Benjamin Schmolckens at the top of the verso of of each page of prayers. His AR is Schmolck, Benjamin, 1672-1737. He was Lutheran and wrote hymns and I think prayers.

It is in black letter and has 291 pages followed by a 5-page table of contents. None of the books I have found in OCLC or online with his name are even close to this pagination.

A colleague who actually knows German transcribed the top of the first page as follows:

Heiliges
Kirchen = Opfer.
Um
Heilige Vorbereitung.
Gottt Vater, Sohn und Geist verleih,
Daß mein Gebet erhörlich sey.
Hör Vater , und vertritt mich Sohn,
Geist des Gebetes gieb den Ton.

After this, it goes into a prayer "Gott Vater, mein Vater ..."

Above the text is an image (crude etching? wood block?) of a person (gender indeterminate, topless but the breast are not prominent enough to definitely say female, long hair, laurel wreath, radiance lines emanating from the head), sitting on the ground leaning against a low wall (?), between two trees, I think a palm tree and an olive tree, holding a lyre with a cadeucis laying on the ground.

I can't even figure out what size it is! 16 cm 8, 2-sided pages per gathering, I can't see any chain lines but the pages have the thin horizontal lines.

The book appears to have been rebound a long time ago, like at least 100 years. The pages with the text are foxed to a light brown. The endsheets are lighter, but also foxed. It is quarterbound with marbled paper and leather. The head bands are in very good shape and look handmade and old. The cords seem to be real, I can feel tiny knots under the endsheets.

Any help with identifying this item would be most appreciated!

Thanks,

Dawn Grattino
Senior Catalog Librarian
Cleveland Public Library
Catalog Dept.
17133 Lakeshore Blvd.<https://maps.google.com/?q=17133+Lakeshore+Blvd.%0D+%0D+Cleveland,+OH+44110&entry=gmail&source=g>
Cleveland, OH 44110<https://maps.google.com/?q=17133+Lakeshore+Blvd.%0D+%0D+Cleveland,+OH+44110&entry=gmail&source=g>
216-623-2885<tel:(216)%20623-2885>
fax 216-623-6980<tel:(216)%20623-6980>
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