The first 'Baedeker' of Berlin. The town's description from Johan Heinrich Gerken 1714-1717

该项目将提供约翰·海因里希·格尔肯在1714-1717年创作的关于柏林的城镇描述的第一版，这两份手稿都保存在柏林地方档案馆(F代表237，第7和第8号)。他的大部分信息都是从尸检中获得的，这构成了最高级别的真实性和原创性的历史来源。该书的质量和数量分别为300页和387页，足以证明它是柏林第一个“贝德克”。18世纪后期，城市描述使用了这第一个文字地形描述。该文本与住宅研究的更大背景相关，因为它独特地说明了宫廷和城市之间的边界，尽管它们是难以辨别的、流动的和半渗透的。完成于1716年的第七号手稿是该版本的基本文本，将在此基础上增加1717年完成的第八号手稿的差异。因此，描述的时间框架之间的差异变得明显。铜版将被复制；手稿中指出但遗漏的插图将被添加。一篇全面的评论以及一篇详细的、连续的评论将把作品放在背景中；对人、物体、地点的索引使其易于访问。电子版将紧随印刷版之后，作为更大语料库的一部分。一个互联网网站将展示该版本的内容以及空间分布在18世纪初柏林当代平面图上的其他插图。

The project will deliver a first edition of the town description of Berlin which Johan Heinrich Gerken created from 1714-1717, both manuscript of which are kept at the Landesarchiv Berlin (F Rep. 237, No. 7 and 8). Most of his information has been gained from autopsy, it constitutes an historical source of the highest grades of authenticity and originality. Its quality and quantity, 300 and 387 folio pages respectively, justify labelling it the first 'Baedeker' of Berlin. Later 18th century city descriptions made unattributed use of this first textual topographical description. The text is relevant to the larger context of research on residences as it uniquely illustrates the boundaries between court and city, hard to discern, fluid and semi-permeable as they were. Manuscript No. 7, finished in 1716, is the basic text for the edition, to which the differences of manuscript No. 8, finished in 1717, will be added. Thus the differences in the descriptions' timeframes become apparent. Copper plates will be reproduced; illustrations indicated in but missing from the manuscripts will be added. An overall commentary as well as a detailed, running commentary will place the work in context; indices of persons, objects, places make it accessible. An electronic edition will follow the print edition as part of larger corpora. An internet site will present the edition's content as well as other illustrations spatially distributed on a contemporary early 18th century plan of Berlin.