From Pennsylvania to Waterloo - A Biographical History of Waterloo Township

Item Name	Bible	Image1 Image10 Image11 Image12 Image13 Image14 Image15 Image16 Image17 Image18 Image19 Image2 Image20 Image21 Image3 Image4 Image5 Image6 Image7 Image8 Image9
Owner(s)	Schneider, Jacob
Category	Documents
Year	Early: 1560 - Late: 1560
Description	A rare Froschauer Bible printed in Zurich, Switzerland in 1560 records eight generations of Schneiders beginning with Hannes Schneider (born 1534). The Bible contains a genealogical record of the Hannes Schneider family.
Provenance	The Froschauer Bible was bought by Hannes Schneider in 1564, seven years before he married Catherine Haus. It was brought to America by John Schneider who was born in 1697. It came to Canada with three of his grandsons – Jacob, Christian, and Joseph – who immigrated to Waterloo County in 1806-07. The Schneider information in the Bible was translated by Ezra Eby for his Biographical History first published in 1895.
Collection	Mennonite Archives of Ontario Contact : 140 Westmount Rd. N. Waterloo 519-885-0220 x238 grebel.uwaterloo.ca/mao
Accession No.	Hist. Mss. 10.1.2
References	Bird, Michael S. Ontario Fraktur (Toronto: M.F. Feheley Publishers, 1977), p. 93.
Curatorial Comments	The publisher, Christoph Froschauer, began printing Bibles in 1524. They became popular because of their clear type, popular language and pictoral decoration. This version was that prepared by Zwingli and his aides between 1524 and 1529 on the basis of Luther’s work. It differed from Luther mainly in word order and vocalulary since the German spoken in Zurich differed from that of Luther’s translation. [taken from article by Ian H. Schiedel]

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Fraktur design based on Family Register by Jacob Shoemacher in Joseph Schneider Bible, 1821.