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Contains 19 Results:

An den Teufel, n.d. (17c.)

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

Manuscript copy of a poem.With manuscript annotation by G.L. Burr and partial transcription by LF

Dates: n.d. (17c.)

Bekker, Baltasar, undated

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents

Manuscript copy of the poem "Lof Geedight over het verklaare van den eerste Brief van Petrus door Doomiene Golieus, prediekant tot hindeloopen" in Dutch, signed "Baltasar Bekker"; the signature was actually appended by the copyist

Dates: undated

Bekker, Baltasar, undated

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 13
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Manuscript copy "UItrreksl uit het Kort bericht" [1692], signed "Baltasar Bekker"; the signature was actually appended by the copyist

Dates: undated

"Processus Inquisitorius c[contra] Agnes Brussen, Michel Hoogens [Witwe] zum Grandshagen", 1679

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 16
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Manuscript record of a witch trial which took place in Treptow (Pomerania). The widow was accused of having song hymns to the devil (trial "in cantationis"). The record includes the testimony of her neighbors, her own inquisition, letters from the local clergy, an order for torture from the Law Faculty of the University of Greifswald, her confession, and the sentence, according to which she was burnt.

Dates: 1679

Burr, George Lincoln, 1857-1938, 1886

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 19
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Original text of a lecture titled "On the Loos Manuscripts," on witch hunting and the persecution for heresy in Europe ("that strange nightmare that fell upon the world just as it woke from the long sleep of the Middle Ages") delivered by Burr on October 6, 1886, at a meeting of the Historical and Political Science Association; with a full transcription.

Dates: 1886

Aa, Jacob van der, 1792-1857, 1850

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Manuscript copy of his article on Balthasar Bekker in his "Nieuw biographisch... van Nederlandsche dichters" document.

Dates: 1850

Baer, Joseph and Co., Booksellers in Frankfurt am Main (Germany), 1907

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents

Typed letter to A.D. White [then U.S. Ambassador in Berlin] offering him witch trial records for purchase(Bamberg, 1617-31)

Dates: 1907

Bekker, Baltasar, undated

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 10
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Manuscript copy of "Bijschriften voorkomende in de gedichten uit het stamboek..."

Dates: undated

Bekker, Baltasar, undated

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents

Manuscript copy of the poem "Lof Geedight op het euwig evangelium Gemmakt Door Joohannis Vlak prediekant tee Zutven", signed "Baltasar Bekker"; the signature was actually appended by the copyist.

Dates: undated

Bekker, Baltasar, undated

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents

Manuscript copy poem "Brief aan zijn huisrouw, Frouk Fullenia" 1691), signed "Baltasar Bekker"; the signature was actually appended by the copyist

Dates: undated