File 1.20 - German Handwriting Comparisons

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1.20

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German Handwriting Comparisons

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  • 2004-12-02 (Creation)

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Sisters of St. Benedict, Monastery Immaculate Conception, Ferdinand, Indiana

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Sisters of St. Benedict Archives, Ferdinand, Indiana

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  • German
  • Latin

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    Content for file: German Handwriting Comparisons

    Copies of handwritings, Ferdinand, St. Meinrad, 2004 These handwritings were compared in order to identify persons who wrote in German some of the monastery's oldest documents. Father Tobias Colgan, O.S.B., obtained samples from St. Meinrad; authors of documents included:

    Fr. Eberhard Stadler (or possibly Abbot Martin Marty); sample taken from Application of the Holy Rule of our Most Holy Father Benedict to the Conditions of the Rev. Sisters O.S.B. in the Convent of the Immaculate Conception of May in Ferdinand, Dubois County, Indiana, 1871

    Abbot Martin Marty (or Eberhard Stadler); sample taken from Application of the Holy Rule of our Most Holy Father Benedict to the Conditions of the Rev. Sisters O.S.B. in the Convent of the Immaculate Conception of May in Ferdinand, Dubois County, Indiana, 1871

    Abbot Martin Marty or Father Chrysostom Foffa, sample taken from Statutes for the Benedictine Nuns of the Immaculate Conception of Mary 1867

    Mother Agatha Werb; sample taken from Institutes of the Benedictine Sisters of Ferdinand, and, As regards the founding of individual monasteries... (handwritten translation included)

    Mother Benedicta Berns, sample taken from her vow paper of 1866, written in Latin. with English translation

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