Samuel Fatzinger hymnbook, 1818.
Collection Number: 6052
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Samuel Fatzinger hymnbook, 1818.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
6052
Abstract:
Microfilm copy of a fraktur manuscript hymnbook of the German Reformed church illuminated
in the Pennsylvania Dutch style.
Creator:
Fatzinger, Samuel.
Quanitities:
1 microfilm reels.
Language:
Collection material in English
Samuel Fatzinger was born near Allentown, Pennsylvania on December 19, 1801, the son
of Jacob and Catherine Fatzinger, a brother of Thomas, Levi and Edward Fatzinger and
Elisha Fatzinger Watkins. With his family he moved in 1818 to the present town of
Varick. Not long after Samuel went to South Waterloo, New York where he engaged in
mercantile pursuits. He was one of three trustees who supervised the construction
of a new school in Fayette in 1845. In 1844 he had been elected town supervisor of
Fayette. Fatzinger died in Ypsilanti, Michigan on December 9, 1858.
This collection consists of a microfilm copy of a fraktur manuscript hymnbook and
twelve color slides of selected pages.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Samuel Fatzinger hymnbook, #6052. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
Subjects:
Reformed Church in the United States -- Hymnals.
Hymns, English -- United States.
Form and Genre Terms:
Hymnals.
CONTAINER LIST
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Description
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Date
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Hymnbook,
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Scope and Contents
This volume, written in fraktur with color illuminations contains the first lines
of and the beginning of the melody of a number of hymns, psalms and traditional poems.
These are arranged by alphabetical order of the first letter of the first word of
each line. Within letter groupings the hymns are in random order, as apparently they
were recorded at different times as they are rendered in different styles of notation,
(note: In the German alphabet "I" and "J" are alphabetized interchangeably.) In addition
to the microfilm copy there are color slides as follows:
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| Slide 1 |
"This harmonic treasury of melodies belongs to me, Samuel Fatzinger. If this book
should be lost One can read my name here Done by me (myself) A.D. 1818" in an illuminated
heart with flowers and a face.
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| Slide 2 |
A circular chart of the keys showing 13 key signatures.
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| Slide 3 |
A page of instructions on the values of notes, location of clefs, and intervals and
a practice line with illumination.
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| Slide 4 |
Illuminated "A" and psalms 119, 31 and 65.
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| Slide 5 |
Illuminated "E," hymns and psalms 92 and 31, verse 6.
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| Slide 6 |
Illuminated "P" and hymns.
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| Slide 7 |
"T" illuminated with birds on both sides and hymns.
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| Slide 8 |
Illuminated "W" with a verse about the wise men and the 1st psalm.
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| Slide 9 |
(2 copies) Small illumination of a tree and hymns.
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| Slide 10 |
Hymns illuminated with flowers.
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| Slide 11 |
Hymns illuminated with a tree.
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