Item Info

Scripts/Text: Fraktur; German script
Language: German
Weiser Number: 273
Physical Description: Leaf
Material: Wove paper; watercolor; ink
Transcription:

Kommet \ Her ihr Elenden, komt her ihr Gequälten gebt euch meinen \ Händen, O ihr auserwählten so will ich mich euch Schen= \ ken euch Speisen und Tränken; als meinen Schaaf er= \ nähren, rechte Ruh bescheren, mich von euch nicht kehren \ Kommt her zu mir spricht Gottes Sohn, all die ihr seyd \ Beschweret nun, mit Sünden hart Beladen, ihr jungen alten Frau und Mann \ ich will euch geben was ich han, will Heilen euren Schaden, 1825

Translation:

Come here, you miserable ones, you tortured ones. Give yourselves into my hands, o, you chosen ones, then I want to give myself to you, feed and water you, nourish as my sheep, grant right rest, never turn away from you. Come here to me, says God’s son, all you who are oppressed, heavily burdened with sins, you young, old, women and man, I want to give you what I have, want to heal your flaws. 1825.

Category: Religious Text
Media Type: Manuscripts
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:

Hand-drawn; hand-colored; hand-written.  The first word of the text is in Fraktur, in large and ornate letters in red ink, with a leafy tulip above it.  The remainder of the text is in German script.  In the upper-left corner is a scalloped design; the top and sides of the document have a solid blue border.  This fraktur is thought to be a later copy of a dated 1803 Schwenkfelder fraktur (see Shelley, The Fraktur-Writings, fig. 160).

Bibliography:

Donald A. Shelley, The Fraktur-Writings or Illuminated Manuscripts of the Pennsylvania Germans (Allentown, Pa.: Pennsylvania German Folklore Society, 1961), fig. 160.

Creation Place County: Creation Place Note:Based on design characteristics
Region/County:[Montgomery]
State/Province:[Pennsylvania]

Creation Year (Single Year or Range Begin): 1825
Image Dimensions Width: 18.5 cm
ShelfMark: FLP 553
Creator Name: Anonymous - Decorator
Anonymous - Scrivener