Abstract
Brother Ezechiel Sangmeister (1723-1784) lived at Conrad Beissel’s Ephrata Cloister, a mystical Pietist community founded in 1732 on the banks of Pennsylvania’s Cocalico Creek. This broadside is in keeping with the Germanic tradition of the Geistlicher Irrgarten, or spiritual labyrinth, a theme popular with Pennsylvania German printers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Copies of it could be purchased bound with Sangmeister’s Mystische Theologie, or purchased separately from printer Joseph Bauman. Hamilton College’s copy was bound with David Landes’s Das Guldene A B C fur Jederman der gern mit Ehren wolt bestahn. [Ephrata, Penn.]: Gedruckt [bey Joseph Bauman] für David Landes, 1825.
Date
7-1-2022
Volume
16
Number
3
First Page
234
Last Page
235
Journal Title
American Communal Societies Quarterly
ISSN
1939-473X
