Hutterite Article Book The Article Book is a major doctrinal
tract of the Hutterites, originating in Moravia around 1547,
extant in about 20 manuscript copies of between 1547 and 1655,
published in a condensed form only in the Great Chronicle of the
Hutterites as Die Fünf Artikel des Grössten Streites Zwischen
Uns und der Welt (Die Aelteste Chronik, der Huterischen Bruder,
ed. Zieglschmid), and in Lydia Müller's Glaubenszeugnisse
Oberdeutscher Taufgesinnter (Leipzig, 1938) from a Hutterite
manuscript that contains but a Kurzer Auszug (epitome) of the
book as such. The term "Article Book" is not the official title
though widely used, particularly among the American Hutterites
of today. The original manuscript bears the title, Ein schön
lustig Buchlein etliche Hauptartikel unseres Glaubens
betreffend. The Geistliches Blumen-gärtlein (Amsterdam, 1680)
contains still another edition of this tract under the title,
Schriftmässiger Bericht und Zeugnis betreffend die rechte
christliche Taufe, Abendmahl, Gemeinschaft,