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Germany

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 28 Collections and/or Records:

Radnor missal, 1300 - 1399

 Item
Identifier: MS 34
Abstract

This is a German missal from about the fourteenth century, which includes a Cantus; the Blessing of the Paschal Candle with the Litany; the Blessing of the Candle; the Order for the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Blessing of the Candles; the Order for the Blessing of the Branches on Palm Sunday; and the Blessing of Salt and Water with the Litany.

Dates: 1300 - 1399

"An Account of the Origin and Progress of the Christian Society of Friends at Minden"

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-080
Abstract Frederick Schmidt's "An Account of the Origin and Progress of the Christian Society of Friends at Minden" provides a historical and semi-autobiographical narrative of Schmidt and his Friend John Rasch, and their involvement in the Society of Friends in present day Germany. The narrative particularly focuses on John Rasch's efforts to begin a community of Quakers in Minden, Germany, in the late 18th to early 19th centuries. The narrative also discusses Schmidt's own trials in adhering to a...
Dates: 1823

Benjamin Seebohm biography

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-081
Abstract

The biography of Benjamin Seebohm describes his early life and education in Germany, and the influence of Quakerism in his young life, particularly the religious visit of Stephen Grellet. The biography also describes Seebohm's travels as a Quaker minister throughout Europe and Great Britain, and includes quoted extracts from Seebohm's journals and letters.

Dates: Undated.

Sermones de sanctis, pars hiemalis, 1300 - 1399

 Item
Identifier: Gordan MS 62
Abstract

Incipiunt sermones de sanctis compilati per magistrum henricum de Urimaria. Sermo primus de sancto andrea apostolo. Ascendam in palmam et apprehendam fructus eius cantico septimo. sic dicit Bernardus in sermone. The cycle of sermons ends with the second sermon for Mary Magdalen

Dates: 1300 - 1399

Helene Stöcker Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-035
Abstract

Dr. Helene Stöcker (1869-1943) was one of the first woman students to enter a German University. In the 1920s she helped found Germany's first woman suffrage organization, and later the Bund für Mutterschutz (Protection of Motherhood). Dr. Stöcker immigrated to the United States in 1941 under the sponsorship of friends and colleagues in the peace movement.

Dates: 1897-1994; Majority of material found within 1913-1943

Summaries of treatises on logic by Aristotle and Porphyry (in Latin), 1300 - 1399

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Identifier: Gordan MS 92
Abstract

Table of contents: Series of definitions beginning with dialectics and continuing with "sonus" and "vox;" Summary of Aristotle, De Interpretatione; Summary of Porphyry, Isagoge; Summary of Aristotle, Categoriae; Summary of Aristotle, Analytica Priora; Summary of Aristotle, Topica.

Dates: 1300 - 1399

James Garrett Vail papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1355
Abstract James Garrett Vail (1886-1951) was an American Quaker and industrial chemist with a focus on silicates. Vail frequently engaged in service missions outside of the United States, beginning with child-feeding efforts in Germany in combination with the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) after the First World War. This collections consists primarily of correspondence with his wife, Ruth Masters Russell Vail, while abroad and material related to those foreign missions and other aspects of...
Dates: 1917 - 1952

Vol. 1 The Goodwill Train photograph album, 1948

 Item — Volume 1
Scope and Content note

This album is entitled "Arrival of the American Friendshiptrain 'The Goodwill Train'" and the photos record the arrival in Dusseldorf, Germany on December 3, 1948.

Dates: 1948