Vol One - Das Kloster, weltlich und geistlich; meist aus der ältern deutschen Volks-, Wunder-, Curiositäten-, und vorzugsweise komischen Literatur 

The monastery, secular and spiritual; mostly from the older German folk, wonder, curiosities, 
and preferably comic literature

 

 

Publication date  by Scheible, J.

https://archive.org/details/dasklosterweltli01sche

 

Das Kloster ("The Cloister"; full title Das Kloster. Weltlich und geistlich. Meist aus der ältern deutschen Volks-,

Wunder-, Curiositäten-, und vorzugsweise komischen Literatur "The Cloister. Profane and sacred.

 

Mostly from older German Popular, Miraculous, Curious and especially Comical Literature") is a collection of magical and occult texts, 

chapbooks, folklore, popular superstition and fairy tales of the German Renaissance compiled by Stuttgart antiquarian Johann Scheible in 12 volumes, 1845-1849.

Vols. 3, 5 and 11 are dedicated to the Faust legend. Vols. 7, 9 and 12 dealing with topics of folklore and ethnography were written by F. Nork

(pseudonym of Friedrich Korn, 1803–1850).

 

vol. 1 (1845), 840 pp, ch. 1-4 Volksprediger, Moralisten und frommer Unsinn,
People's preachers, moralists and pious nonsense