WEBVTT 1 00:00:06.700 --> 00:00:08.900 Hello and welcome to Mission Works 2 00:00:08.900 --> 00:00:10.400 Thanks to Donors. 3 00:00:10.400 --> 00:00:13.500 We are going to go into the library, shhh. 4 00:00:16.400 --> 00:00:20.500 No, that's not the case libraries have changed in the Kristine Kay 5 00:00:20.500 --> 00:00:25.200 Hasse Memorial Library here on campus is an inviting place and not 6 00:00:25.200 --> 00:00:29.700 just to seminary students but two pastors and scholars literally 7 00:00:29.700 --> 00:00:32.400 throughout the world. With us today is Dr. 8 00:00:32.400 --> 00:00:37.700 Bruce Durazzi, who is the Special Collections Librarian. Welcome Bruce. Thank you. 9 00:00:37.700 --> 00:00:48.700 Tell our donors what the special collections is. Special Collections it has three main components to it and the most 10 00:00:48.700 --> 00:00:53.000 of the biggest and most interesting is rare books. Which we 11 00:00:53.000 --> 00:00:56.900 emphasize of course Lutheran teachings and the history of the Lutheran 12 00:00:56.900 --> 00:00:57.500 Church. 13 00:00:57.500 --> 00:01:01.000 We have some thousands of books in that close to 14 00:01:01.000 --> 00:01:01.500 8000 books. 8000 books. In that collection. 15 00:01:01.500 --> 00:01:10.000 We also have the library archive which keeps published material from 16 00:01:10.000 --> 00:01:14.500 Concordia Seminary and its faculties official publications of the 17 00:01:14.500 --> 00:01:15.100 institution 18 00:01:16.300 --> 00:01:18.700 and those aren't necessarily antiques. 19 00:01:18.700 --> 00:01:21.200 Starting from the 1830s 20 00:01:21.200 --> 00:01:25.900 but all the way up to the most recent books published by our faculty 21 00:01:25.900 --> 00:01:30.900 members. And in addition to that we also have housed in special 22 00:01:30.900 --> 00:01:34.000 collections the collection from the Center for Reformation Research. 23 00:01:34.000 --> 00:01:41.700 Which is so that's still an autonomous organization, but we curate 24 00:01:41.700 --> 00:01:45.600 their their material which is mostly microfilm in secondary sources. 25 00:01:45.600 --> 00:01:48.700 So if we don't have it, it's almost certain that if it's important to 26 00:01:48.700 --> 00:01:52.500 Lutheran history and we don't have a print copy of it the Center for 27 00:01:52.500 --> 00:01:57.400 Reformation Research has it on microfilm. Our donors my not realize this 28 00:01:57.400 --> 00:02:02.300 and I don't think I fully realize this but Concordia Seminary is 29 00:02:02.300 --> 00:02:06.400 a scholarly resource not only for Lutheran Church, but for Christendom 30 00:02:06.400 --> 00:02:11.600 in general. But you mentioned Luther and his writings tell us 31 00:02:11.600 --> 00:02:12.600 about that little book 32 00:02:12.600 --> 00:02:13.700 there just briefly? Sure. 33 00:02:13.700 --> 00:02:14.800 This is 34 00:02:16.300 --> 00:02:19.900 the sermon on the parable of the Lost Sheep written by Luther 35 00:02:19.900 --> 00:02:24.900 published in 1533 shortly after it was delivered. 36 00:02:24.900 --> 00:02:30.600 This was this was the publication done in Wittenberg which means that Luther 37 00:02:30.600 --> 00:02:35.500 probably personally organized himself and then supervised 38 00:02:35.500 --> 00:02:41.700 It's it's the press as it came out. And we're pretty sure that this 39 00:02:41.700 --> 00:02:45.800 woodcut was commissioned for this title page with specific to have 40 00:02:45.800 --> 00:02:50.600 enough with the picture of Jesus with the lamb over his shoulders and 41 00:02:50.600 --> 00:02:53.700 it says sort of incidental the on the title page preached in 42 00:02:53.700 --> 00:03:03.000 Wittenberg at the castle for the I am translating for the Elector 43 00:03:04.500 --> 00:03:10.600 Johann Friedrich. And inside it gives the exact date of the sermon and 44 00:03:10.600 --> 00:03:13.700 one of the things that significant about it as it turns out to be the 45 00:03:13.700 --> 00:03:18.400 first sermon that Luther preached to Johann Friedrich after he became 46 00:03:18.400 --> 00:03:20.000 the Elector. 47 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:22.800 It was just a week after his father the previous Elector his father 48 00:03:22.800 --> 00:03:26.600 passed away. And the sermon is written about what story? The parable of 49 00:03:26.600 --> 00:03:30.300 the Lost Sheep. That's great. An interesting idea 50 00:03:30.300 --> 00:03:34.300 I am I am not a theologian myself, but I found it interesting that he 51 00:03:34.300 --> 00:03:39.300 spends more time talking about the frame of the story not the parable 52 00:03:39.300 --> 00:03:44.800 of the Lost Sheep, but the account of how the Pharisees dismiss Jesus 53 00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:53.300 because he was preaching to the rabble. And that's the part of that Luther really. He may have been telling his own story. We've got all these 54 00:03:53.300 --> 00:03:53.600 books. 55 00:03:54.700 --> 00:04:03.500 The most famous volume volumes in the rare book room are are the 56 00:04:03.500 --> 00:04:05.700 Johann Sebastian Bach's personal Bible. 57 00:04:06.600 --> 00:04:12.500 We have a Concordia Seminary your Seminary Johann Sebastian Bach's 58 00:04:12.500 --> 00:04:16.100 personal Bible. Is that a little little pocket Bible? 59 00:04:16.100 --> 00:04:19.000 No, it's a huge annotated Bible. 60 00:04:19.000 --> 00:04:24.500 So it's takes up three big volumes and 61 00:04:25.500 --> 00:04:31.400 there are so as I was saying recently that didn't give you the first 62 00:04:31.400 --> 00:04:33.000 sentence of the Bible takes up four pages. 63 00:04:33.000 --> 00:04:36.600 So it says in the beginning and then there's a whole column of 64 00:04:36.600 --> 00:04:39.400 annotations explaining exactly 65 00:04:39.400 --> 00:04:41.600 what Cavlov thought in the beginning meant and 66 00:04:41.600 --> 00:04:51.300 Everyone else was disgusted. God created. So it takes up. So it ends up being a huge book but Bach obviously read it and he 67 00:04:51.300 --> 00:04:54.300 annotated it and we have marks in his pen. 68 00:04:54.300 --> 00:04:58.000 Not just the signature but actual underlining and comments that he 69 00:04:58.000 --> 00:04:58.200 wrote. 70 00:04:58.200 --> 00:05:03.000 This is amazing .I believe we also have original editions of the 71 00:05:03.000 --> 00:05:03.700 Book of Concord? 72 00:05:04.800 --> 00:05:10.400 Yes, we have. That's something. Six copies from The Dresden printing the first 73 00:05:10.400 --> 00:05:17.600 printing and then others from the same year in other cities. Now Seminarians guys 74 00:05:17.600 --> 00:05:23.200 studying to be pastors young women studying to be deaconesses aren't 75 00:05:23.200 --> 00:05:24.800 just going to go in there and hang out. 76 00:05:24.800 --> 00:05:26.900 So who uses the rare book room? 77 00:05:28.700 --> 00:05:33.800 I think incidentally I think that the students who are preparing to be 78 00:05:33.800 --> 00:05:36.500 Pastors and deaconesses could benefit from it 79 00:05:36.500 --> 00:05:38.900 and I wish I saw more of them and I'm happy to work with me when they 80 00:05:38.900 --> 00:05:43.900 come in. If they're doing anything. Nota bene. Of course it helps if you 81 00:05:43.900 --> 00:05:47.600 can read enough Latin or German to to read the text, but even so 82 00:05:47.600 --> 00:05:49.500 their very interesting things that we can share. 83 00:05:49.500 --> 00:05:57.300 But mainly it's it's PhD students here faculty members who do 84 00:05:57.300 --> 00:06:03.300 historical topics come to us frequently to see either to see things in 85 00:06:03.300 --> 00:06:06.700 their original printing or to see things that are little known and 86 00:06:06.700 --> 00:06:09.800 just haven't been reprinted. And these are not only our in-house people 87 00:06:09.800 --> 00:06:12.400 but Scholars from the country even the world 88 00:06:12.400 --> 00:06:20.200 sometimes? Yes, scholars come from abroad sometimes. I mean the Bach Bible is our most popular request, but other things too. 89 00:06:20.200 --> 00:06:24.100 There are a handful of things that are hard to get anywhere else and 90 00:06:24.100 --> 00:06:28.700 haven't been scanned to digital and often they'll just write with 91 00:06:28.700 --> 00:06:29.300 request and 92 00:06:29.300 --> 00:06:30.400 I'll have to make copies for me. 93 00:06:30.400 --> 00:06:31.400 You make scans for them. 94 00:06:31.400 --> 00:06:36.100 But there are a handful of things that you just can't hardly find an 95 00:06:36.100 --> 00:06:37.000 any catalog anywhere. 96 00:06:37.000 --> 00:06:40.500 We could we could turn this this episode of Mission Works into an 97 00:06:40.500 --> 00:06:45.900 ongoing series 8000 episodes about all the books in Concordia. 98 00:06:45.900 --> 00:06:47.700 Seminary's rare book collection. 99 00:06:47.700 --> 00:06:48.200 Thank you. 100 00:06:48.200 --> 00:06:48.500 Dr. 101 00:06:48.500 --> 00:06:50.600 Durazzi. Here at Concordia Seminary 102 00:06:50.600 --> 00:06:54.800 we like to talk about the vigorous life of the mind in the service of 103 00:06:54.800 --> 00:06:55.400 the gospel. 104 00:06:55.400 --> 00:06:59.700 And that's what our library is about and donors help make it happen. 105 00:06:59.700 --> 00:07:04.700 Donations make it possible to acquire important books for scholarly 106 00:07:04.700 --> 00:07:09.400 research Donations help provide this inviting place for students 107 00:07:09.400 --> 00:07:13.700 pastors and Scholars to do research so that they can share with the 108 00:07:13.700 --> 00:07:19.000 world the stimulating faith you and I have been given. It is true in 109 00:07:19.000 --> 00:07:23.000 the library and wherever the spirit motivates Christ people 110 00:07:23.000 --> 00:07:24.700 Mission Works 111 00:07:24.700 --> 00:07:26.400 Thanks to Donors.