Geistliches Bergwerck, Das ist: Andächtiger, lieblicher und beweglicher Betrachtungen
Subtitle: wie an dem löblichen Bergwerck, dabey vorgehendem Baw, gebräuchlichen Gezaw oder Werckzeuge, Arbeit, Anschnit, Ablohnunge und dergleichen, das gantze Christenthumb ... vorgestellet seyn ; Allen denen, beydes, so bey dem Bergwerck umbgehen ... erbawlich zu lesen
By: Eröffnet von M. Petro Eichholtz, Dienern des Worts Gottes auff der Fürstlichen Berg-Stadt Zellerfeld
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Gedruckt bey Nicolas Dunckern, in Verlegung des Autoris und Buchdruckers
Published: 1655
Place of publication: Goßlar
Language: ger
Number of pages: 699
Subjects: Mining literature; Early works to 1800; Metallurgy; Miners; Religious life; Labor; Religious aspects
Other titles: So vorstellet die zugehörige Dinge zu Eröffnung, Erbawung und Fortsetzung eines Bergwercks; So vorstellet, wie nach Erhebung und Fortsetzung eines Bergwercks, dessen Arbeit täglich getrieben, und durch was Arbeit der bescherte Segen Gottes der Ertze in Poch-Hüttenwercken und andern Orten müsse zu gute gemachet werden
Notes: Part title in between the main title on each title page.

Title in ornamental border. Additional double-page engraved title page with 14 mining and metallurgical vignettes.

Each part has separate title page.

Text within ruled border; decorated initials; printed marginalia. Gothic type.

Dictionary of mining terms at the end of part 1.

Written in the style of the Sarepta (1562) by Mathesius, which combined religious instruction with discussions of mining and metallurgical technology.  Delivered in the form of sermons, this treatise describes the processes of mining iron, copper, silver, gold, and other metals, written in the "bergkleuftigen" manner of familiar miner's tongue.  These sermons related practical mining problems to Biblical stories in order to influence the miners' religious sentiment and pleasure in the church as well as to deepen their professional interest.  See Jacob Leupold's Prodromus bibliothecae metallicae (1732), page 49; and Manfred Koch’s Geschichte und Entwicklung des bergmännischen Schrifttums, pages 43-44.

Bound in contemporary vellum over boards; folded Yapp fore-edges; author and short title mss. on spine faded.  In phase box.