Geschicht-buch der Hutterischen brüder
Subtitle: hrsg. von den Hutterischen brüdern in Amerika, Canada
By: durch prof.dr. Rudolf Wolkan in Wien
Contributors: Wolkan, Rudolf, 1860-1927, editor; Braitmichel, Kaspar, -1573; Kräl, Hanns, -1583; Zapf, Hauptrecht, 1546?-1630
Published: 1923
Place of publication: Standoff-colony bei Macleod, Alta.,Canada
Language: ger
Number of pages: 697
Subjects: Mennonites; Bruederhoef Mennonite Church
Other titles: Gemeinde geschichtsbuch.
Notes: "Vorrede an den leser", p. [xxxix]-xli, signed "Kasper Braitmichel [vorsteher] ... Hanns Kräl und sein schreiber Haupprecht Zapf ... fortfüher und arbeiter an diesem buch." Braitmichel began and carried the history from the beginning (ca. 1517) to 1542, Kräl and Zapf continued it to 1593, four others to 1665, the end of the manuscript.

Noted by Josef Beck as "Hauptquelle" of the principal sources used by him in "Die geschichts-bücher der Wiedertäufer in Oesterreich-Ungarn ... 1526 bis 1785", Wien, 1883 (Fontes rerum austriacarum, 2e abtheil., XLIII bd.) now out of print (June 1925). The ms. itself (Gemeinde geschichtsbuch) is referred to by Beck in the above work as unfortunately lost, his most diligent efforts had been unavailing in discovering a trace of it (cf. p. XXXV, and p. 286 note 1: "Wahrscheinlich wird es von den anno 1762 und 1782/83 aus Ungarn nach Russland geflüchteten Wiedertäufern mitgenommen worden und nun in Taurien zu suchen sein") ; the manuscript was brought from Russia to America in 1874.

Microfilm. New York, N.Y. : Columbia University Libraries, 1991. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

Filmed; NEH Project (FWC); 1991.