Religious Text (Pelican in its Piety)
Fraktur
Item Info
Item No: frk00586
Title: Religious Text (Pelican in its Piety)
Scripts/Text:
German script
Language: German
Weiser Number: 150
Physical Description: Leaf
Material: Laid paper; watercolor; ink
Transcription:
geb Jesu daß [heart symbol] in freude und schm \ erz, im leben und tod, diß eine ist noth.
Translation:
Give Jesus the heart in joy and pain, in life and death, this one thing is necessary.
Category: Religious Text
Media Type: Manuscripts
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:
Hand-drawn; Hand-drawn; hand-colored. In the center of the document is a bird that is piercing its own breast with its beak. Three smaller birds on the branch of a tree are reaching up to feed on the blood that is sprouting from the wound. A heart is in the lower left. The text in German script is below the image, beneath a border. The item is framed by a decorative border.
Provenance: Henry S. Borneman
Bibliography:
Michael S. Bird, O Noble Heart, O Edel Herz: Fraktur and Spirituality in Pennsylvania German Folk Art (Lancaster: Heritage Center Museum, 2002), pp. 91-92; published as fig. 83.
Creation Place County: Creation Place Note:Based on design characteristics
Region/County:[Bucks]
State/Province:[Pennsylvania]
Creation Year (Single Year or Range Begin): ca. 1800
Image Dimensions Width: 10.3 cm
ShelfMark: FLP 586
Creator Name: Anonymous - Decorator
Anonymous - Scrivener
Religious Text (Pelican in its Piety)