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Böhner2 (3.2.2.)

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Title

Die Handelingen of Geskiedenisen van ons HEER en Heiland Jesus Christus ut die vier Evangelisten na een tesammenhang gefoegt

Country

Virgin Islands (US)

Genre

Written materials

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Language

Negerhollands

Persistent Identifier

https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-0018-A62B-4

Description

Translation of the Samuel Lieberkühn's Evangelienharmonie "Die Geschichte unsers Herrn und Heilandes Jesu Christi aus den vier Evangelisten zusammen gezogen". A copy of Böhner1, made by Böhner himself, with some adjustments with respect to the previous translation. This version too ends with a translation of the Acts of the Apostles. Original document contains a preface in Negerhollands where the problems of the author, a Moravian missionary, in translating into Negerhollands, which is not his mother tongue, are discussed. This preface features as a separate document in the database: Preface Böhner2. The database contains 485 of the 526 pages of the full manuscript. As to the dating of the manuscript: the manuscript itself is not dated, but the preface mentions the author to have lived at St. Thomas for forty years. Given that he arrived at St. Thomas in 1742 (Stein 1986:10-11), the preface must have been written in 1782. As the manuscript is very long and has probably taken a long time to finish, parts of the actual translation will have been written many, many years before 1782. Because we do not know what parts were written when, the whole manuscript has been dated 1782, the estimated year it was finished as a whole.

Description

translation of a German compilation of the four gospels (Evangelienharmonie by Samuel Lieberkühn).

Description

Translation of the Samuel Lieberkühn's Evangelienharmonie "Die Geschichte unsers Herrn und Heilandes Jesu Christi aus den vier Evangelisten zusammen gezogen". A copy of Böhner1, made by Böhner himself, with some adjustments with respect to the previous translation. This version too ends with a translation of the Acts of the Apostles. Original document contains a preface in Negerhollands where the problems of the author, a Moravian missionary, in translating into Negerhollands, which is not his mother tongue, are discussed. This preface features as a separate document in the database: Preface Böhner2. The database contains 485 of the 526 pages of the full manuscript.

As to the dating of the manuscript: the manuscript itself is not dated, but the preface mentions the author to have lived at St. Thomas for forty years. Given that he arrived at St. Thomas in 1742 (Stein 1986:10-11), the preface must have been written in 1782. As the manuscript is very long and has probably taken a long time to finish, parts of the actual translation will have been written many, many years before 1782. Because we do not know what parts were written when, the whole manuscript has been dated 1782, the estimated year it was finished as a whole.

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