Bride book
A bride book called historically precious bound and decorated German prayer book of the 17th century , mostly decorated with gilt edges . The bride's book was given to the bride by her fiancé as pledge.
See also
- Bride gift (to secure the wife financially)
- Dowry (for the bride, German and Islamic tradition)
literature
- Helmut Hiller, Stephan Füssel (Hrsg.): Dictionary of the book. 6th, fundamentally revised edition. Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt / M. 2002, ISBN 3-465-03220-9 .
- Severin Corsten , Günther Pflug, Friedrich Adolf Schmidt-Künselmüller (ed.): Lexicon of the entire book industry. Volume 1: A book. 2nd Edition. Anton Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-7772-8721-0 .
- Bernhard Schäfer: My bride book. Selected prayers and teachings for the Catholic man, for the Catholic woman. Thum, Kevelaer 1927.