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Guide Printed catalogue by Martin Bircher, "Im Garten der Palme" with seven indices: authors; anonymous titles; printers, booksellers and publishers; previous book owners; autograph authors; autograph receivers; places where autographs were written. Content note Arranged by the numbering in the printed catalogue by Bircher, which is organized in the following series: I. Individual members; II. Miscellany. Language note Principally in German; some works in French, Greek, Latin, Italian, English and Dutch. Biographical note The Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft (Fruitbearing Society), also known as the Palmenorden because its emblem was the then-exotic coconut palm tree, was founded in 1617. Its members included the poets Martin Opitz and Andreas Gryphius, and other prominent literary figures such as Georg Philipp Harsdörffer, Justus Georg Schottelius, Friedrich von Logau, Philipp von Zesen, and Johann Michael Moscherosch, all represented by works in the collection. Bibliographical note Im Garten der Palme : Katalog einer Sammlung von Dokumenten zur Wirksamkeit der Fruchtbringenden Gesellschaft ; mit Beigabe eines Ausstellungskataloges (1991) / Martin Bircher. Wiesbaden : Harrasowitz, 1998. (Wolfenbütteler Arbeiten zur Barockforschung) Provenance Gathered by the noted Swiss bibliophile and German baroque scholar, Martin Bircher, over a period of thirty years, and acquired jointly by the Bancroft Library and the Main Library, University of California, Berkeley, in 1998. |
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