Petro Gotlybo Milkaus prierašai rankraštiniame žodyne Clavis Germanico-Lithvana
Inscriptions by Peter Gottlieb Mielcke in the manuscript dictionary Clavis Germanico-Lithvana

Summary/Abstract: This article continues my research on the topic of authorship of inscriptions in the manuscript dictionary Clavis Germanico-Lithvana (abbreviated C; after 1680), which I began in my article “Friedrich Selle’s Inscriptions in the Manuscript Dictionary Clavis Germanico-Lithvana” (Archivum Lithuanicum, vol. 14). Inscriptions in C are the later layers of manuscript text that have appeared after the main dictionary text was completed. They encompass inscriptions by earlier owners and/or readers, and they are identifiable by specific hand-writings and often by different ink color. The main goal of the article was to prove that the most ample group of inscriptions (in former research identified as the handwriting B) is to be attributed to the Lutheran Evangelical clergyman in Lithuania Minor Peter Gottlieb Mielcke (lit. Petras Gotlybas Milkus; b. 1695 in Tilsit [lit. Tilžė]; d. 1753 in Mehlkehmen [lit. Mielkiemis]), who also was a translator of certain religious hymns and books of the first published Lithuanian Bible (Königsberg [lit. Karaliaučius], 1735). I have compared the longhand of these particular inscriptions to the signed autographs of Mielcke that were found in Geheimes Staatsarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz zu Berlin (which has preserved a certain part of Preussisches Staatsarchiv in Königsberg collections). Analysis of the longhand has confirmed that B inscriptions were made by Mielcke’s hand.

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