15650000BRE00

[1565-1600]

[Bremen]

Memoirs (‘Seefahrtenbuch’) of Bremen skipper Bruning Rulves, among others about two journeys of ships freighted by Johan Baller to Shetland in 1550 and 1551. The first ship of skipper Johan Reyners wrecked, the second ship was sailed by skipper Hinrich van Minden.

Created for and published on the HANSdoc website of the German Maritime Museum, Bremerhaven, by Bart Holterman in the context of the research project Between the North Sea and the Norwegian Sea: interdisciplinary Studies of the Hanse. Licensed CC BY.

Bremen, Focke-Museum

B 905

c. 100 pages

Bound in pig leather

Final version

Low German

Lost since the Second World War.

Facsimile not (yet) available

Bremen, Focke-Museum

B 905

Paper

Modern transcript by J. Focke, 1915

Low German

Facsimile not (yet) available

The so-called Seefahrtenbuch of Bruning Rulves has been lost since the Second World War. Its contents are only known from an article of J. Focke, Das Seefahrtenbuch des Brüning Rulves, Bremisches Jahrbuch 26 (1916), 91-144. In the article, Focke describes the contents of the book and cites passages from it, translated into high German. The transcripts he made of the original Low German text are still kept in the Focke-Museum. However, these only cover parts of the text.

S. 46

Ao. 1551. do vorfrachtede Johan Baller Hynrich van Mynden (als Johan Reyners was bleven up harfest ao. 50; was Johan Baller schip, dar se mede in Hytlant plach tho segelen, bleff ock myt man und all. Godt sy der sele gnedych) legen? van de Weser van Blexsen up eyn mandach, des donnerdages quamen wy gudt tydt in Hytlant in den Brusunt.

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S. 73

Ao. 1551. do frachtede Johan Baller schipper Hynrich van Mynden up Hytlant, lach in Borchwage (als Johan Baller schipp was dat forige harvest ao. 1550 bleven myt soltfyske, wolde syn in Englant und Johan Reyners was dar sethschipper up, blif myt man und alles) und ick Brunynck Rulves was do myt segelt in Hytlant ao. 1551.

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Transcript of B2 (only passages about Shetland).