• [Luther's Kleiner Catechismus, translated into Munsee]

Collections:

• Indigenous Cultures
• Delaware / Lenape
• Print Culture in Indigenous North America

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9925251263506421

Language:

• English

Creator:

• Luther, Martin, 1483-1546

Curatorial Notes:

• Exhibition label updated on 2024-01-17.

Extent:

• 16 unnumbered pages, 160 pages ; 18 cm (8vo)

Format:

• Book

Type:

• Catechisms

Publisher:

• Stockholm : Tryckt vthi thet af Kongl. Maytt. privileg. Burchardi tryckeri af J.J. Genath f., 1696.

Subject:

• Munsee language—Texts—Early works to 1800
• Munsee language—Glossaries, vocabularies, etc—Early works to 1800
• Lutheran Church—Delaware—Catechisms—Early works to 1800
• Indigenous Studies
• Catechisms
• Catechisms—Sweden—Stockholm—17th century
• Armorial binding (Bindings)

Text language:

• Text in Swedish and Munsee (Delaware).

Author:

• Luther, Martin, 1483-1546

Created:

• 1696-01-01T00:00:00Z

Date:

• 1696

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/dc0r967f00g

Edm rights:

• No Known Copyright

Range label:

• Logical

Description:

• Luther's Kleiner Catechismus was translated into the Munsee language by Johan Campanius Holm on his arrival in New Sweden (Pennsylvania) in 1643. It was unprinted for 50 years, due to the decline in mission work among the Indians. -- cf. A.C. Repp, Luther's Catechism comes to America, ch. 1.
• Title page printed in red and black.
• Added engraved t.p.: "Catechismvs Lutheri lingva Svecico-Americana" under royal coat of arms signed: "Bl Br. inv.; E. Reitz, Sc." (present only in Ex copy 2)
• Signatures: "[a]"⁸ A-K⁸
• "Vocabularium Barbaro-Virgineorum additis passim locutionibus & observationibus historicis brevioribus ad linguae pleniorem notitiam"--Page 133 -160

Alternative:

• Catechismus Lutheri lingua Svecico-Americana
• Luther's catechism in Indian

Binding note:

• Princeton copy 1 WHS: Original binding, mottled calf; in center the double C, monogram of Charles XI, enclosed by two branches supporting a crown.
• Princeton copy 2 Ex 2028.27.61 cop. 1, bound in parchment.

References:

• Sabin 42726.

Spatial:

• Delaware

Contents:

• Fo̊rtalet. prelim. leaf, [3-9]--Catechismus (in Munsee and Swedish).--Oratio dominica lingua virginiana, ex Bibl. virgin. cantabrig. Nov. Angl. 1663.--Oratio dominica lingua caraibica, insularum american. Ex catechismo caraibico p. Raymundi Breton, Auxerrae, 1664.--Herrans bo̊o̊n.--Wålsignelse.--Vocabularium barbaro-Virgineorum Additis passim locutionibus & observationibus historicis brevioribus ad linguae pleniorem notitiam, anno MDCXCVI (classified vocabulary in Munsee and Swedish, with special t. p.)--Colloquia (in Munsee and Swedish)--De numerandi modo (in Munsee)--Vocabula mahakuassica (in Susquehanna or Minqua)--Modus supputandi Mahakuassorum.

Uniform title:

• Kleine Katechismus. Munsee & Swedish

Translator:

• Campanius Holm, Johan, 1601-1683

Seller:

• Campbell, William James, 1850-1931
• William J. Campbell Bookstore

Call number:

• 102.10
• 2028.27.61

Location:

• Special Collections 102.10
• Special Collections 2028.27.61

Provenance:

• Princeton copy 1 WHS shelf-list has note: Binding, Swedish, 17th cent. (royal arms).
• Princeton copy 2 Ex 2028.27.61 cop. 1, armorial bookplate of Goertz.
• Princeton copy 2 Ex 2028.27.61 cop. 1, inscribed on title page 'Ex dono Regis Caroli XI. hic lebell ... Joh. Albert: Fabricii 1692.'
• Princeton copy 3 Ex 2028.27.61 cop. 2, bookplate of Jean Hersholt.

Former owner:

• Fabricius, Johann Albert, 1668-1736
• Hersholt, Jean, 1886-1956