Ein kleiner Abriss von denen Irr- und Abwegen, derer von Gott gerufenen Seelen

Brother Ezechiel Sangmeister (1723-1784) lived at Conrad Beissel’s Ephrata Cloister, a mystical Pietist community founded in 1732 on the banks of Pennsylvania’s Cocalico Creek. This broadside is in keeping with the Germanic tradition of the Geistlicher Irrgarten, or spiritual labyrinth, a theme popular with Pennsylvania German printers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Copies of it could be purchased bound with Sangmeister’s Mystische Theologie, or purchased separately from printer Joseph Bauman. Hamilton College’s copy was bound with David Landes’s Das Guldene A B C fur Jederman der gern mit Ehren wolt bestahn. [Ephrata, Penn.]: Gedruckt [bey Joseph Bauman] für David Landes, 1825