@article{Bach2011,
       author = "Bach, Jeff",
       title =  {{Pilgrims and Martyrs: The Engraved Title Page  of Ephrata’s Martyrs Mirror}},
       howpublished = "\url{https://ir.hamilton.edu/do/bdd9e198-c8ff-42e1-9cf4-64984b81552f}",
       publisher = {Richard W. Couper Press and Hamilton College Library Special Collections},
       journal = {American Communal Societies Quarterly},
       year = 2011,
       month = apr,
       volumen = {5},
       number = {2},
       pages = {82--93},
}

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Date

April 2011

Available After

2014-04-01

Description

The largest book produced in colonial America, known in English as the Martyrs Mirror, was translated and printed by the celibate brothers of the Ephrata Community in Pennsylvania in 1748. The illustration that serves as a title page in some of the Ephrata volumes gives a pictorial allegory for the Christian life, featuring the baptism of Jesus by immersion at the center of the picture. After renouncing the world, believers bear the cross of Christ and arrive in heaven. It is likely that the title page was done by the Frankfurt engraver, Michael Eben.

Type of Work

• Article

Source Title

American Communal Societies Quarterly

ISSN

1939-473X

Volume

5

Issue

2

First Page

82

Last Page

93

Publisher

Richard W. Couper Press

Hamilton College Library Special Collections

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