Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft collection [microform], [1600-1680].

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Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft collection [microform], [1600-1680].

Collection of manuscripts, engravings and other pictorial material, printed books and broadsides, relating to the activities, membership, and publications of the Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft.

Printed books and broadsides: ca. 800 v.Manuscript collection: 308 documents, and 28 codices.Pictorial collection: 312 copperplate engravings, and other graphic material; medallion, bas-relief, and album of photomechanical prints.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8322824

Yale University Library

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Historical Note A particularly important aspect of the German Baroque period was the emergence of social structures which promoted literacy and the humanistics arts and sciences. Learned societies were established throughout Europe to bring scholars and writers together. One such society was the Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft (Fruitbearing Society), known also as the Palmenorden (Order of the Palms) because its emblem was the then-exotic coconu...

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