Meister Heinrich Gresbeck’s Bericht von der Wiedertaufe in Münster
Heinrich Gresbeck; ed. C. A. Cornelius
Heinrich Gresbeck’s Low German eyewitness account of the Anabaptist kingdom and siege of Münster, 1534–1535, edited by C. A. Cornelius in 1853.
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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. Gresbeck’s report, pp. 120–122 (leaves n221–n223), from “Nu heft Stutenbernt” to “so howet my den kop af.” The print reads “steryen” (for sterven) and is retained. 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.
pp. 120–122