Scope and Contents: Full Title: Ein newer Beweis des höchlichen Beystandes, und mitgethailten Dinges [manuscript] : Das ist: ... Acta ... zu Unterweysung der Jugend, und sonderlich armer Kinder, zu Königsberg in Preussen ... / originalib[us] auss Leipzig ... zusammen getragen von Theodoro Gehren. Königl. Preuss: Holzkämmerer.
A guide for teaching, presumably to be used at the Collegium Fridericianum, a Latin school in Knigsberg founded by Gehr in 1698.
Ms. codex.
Author's name and title from fol. 3r.
Script: In an early modern German hand.
Binding: Contemporary vellum over pasteboard.
Origin: Date from fol. 9r and several subsequent leaves which read 1699. Anno 1698 mentioned in l.4 of fol. 5r and some leaves dated 1700 or 1701 (fol. 568v) near the end of text.
Provenance: Acquired as part of the Aron Collection, 1913 (bookplate on front pastedown).
Shelfmark: Urbana, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Post-1650 MS 225.
Manuscript enumeration (1-1121) begins on fol. 8v.
Fols 1-2 and 569-572 blank.
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