Bekenntniss Bernt Knipperdollings (Dülmen, 25 July 1535)
Record of Bernt Knipperdolling’s confession
The Low German record of the confession of Bernt Knipperdolling, taken at Dülmen on 25 July 1535.
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Carl Adolf Cornelius (ed.), Berichte der Augenzeugen über das Münsterische Wiedertäuferreich (Die Geschichtsquellen des Bisthums Münster, 2; Münster: Theissing, 1853), Internet Archive berichtederaugen00corn. Actenstücke no. LXXII, “Bekenntniss Bernt Knipperdollings”, Dülmen, 25 July 1535, p. 377 (leaves n477–n478), from “Seght oich, wie der koninck” to “sin solde.” Followed in the note by a new AI-assisted English translation (Rainbow Watch, 2026), labelled as such. Low German (Westphalian) text as printed by Cornelius. German-style low and high quotation marks as printed. Spacing normalized; line-end hyphenation joined. Transcribed from the page images.
Cornelius, Actenstücke LXXII, p. 377