Abstract
In the explanatory notes to the entry concerning the Wolverdiente Ehren=Seule, the editors of the second volume of the von Faber du Faur bibliography theorize that the 33-line autograph on the flyleaf of the folio was the work of Kaspar Stieler1. This conjecture is evidently based on the fact that the edition, a commemorative description of the funeral ceremonies of Ernst the First (1601-1675), der Fromme, Duke of Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg2, includes the fourteen page Ehrel =Altar from the pen of Stieler, and that there is, therefore, a connection between the printed work and the manuscript. An examination of the dated manuscript (Gotha, 26 October 1767)3 reveals, however, that here a certain Howell is describing the interment of a 'duchess', who had died a few days earlier (22 October). It is the poem's text that provides the identity of the deceased:
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