Item Info

Scripts/Text: Fraktur; German script
Language: German
Weiser Number: 305
Physical Description: Leaf
Material: Laid paper; watercolor; ink
Transcription:

Geburts= und Tauf=Schein. \ Diesen beyden Ehegatten, als Johannes Kämmerer und seiner ehelichen \ Haus=Frau Susana eine gebohrne Märselsin ist ein Tochter zur \ Welt gebohren, Namens Elisabeth im Jahr unsers HErrn JEsu 1812. \ den 15 Tag October abends um halb 8 Uhr Abends im Zeichen dem Wassermann \ Obgemelde Elisabeth ist Getauft worden den 13ten December \ von Herrn Hofetitz Tauf=Zeugen waren Jacob Kämmerer \ und seine Frau Machtalina

Wann wir kaum gebohren werden, ist vom ersten Lebenstritt bis ins kühle Grab der Erden, Nur ein kurz gemessner Schritt. \ Ach mit jedem Augenblick! Gehet unsre Kraft zurück. Und wir sind mit jedem Jahre, allzu reif \ zur Todtenbahre; Und wer weiß in welcher Stunde, uns die lezte Stimme weckt: \ Dann GOtt hat’s mit seinem Munde, keinem Menschen noch entdeckt. \ Wer sein Haus nun wohl bestellt geht mit Freuden aus der Welt. \ Da die Sicherheit hingegen; Ewigs Sterben kan erregen.

Verfertigt von F. Krebs.

[in left heart]
Ich bin getauft, ich steh im Bunde, \ Durch meine Tauf mit meinem GOtt \ So sprech’ ich stets mit frohem Munde; \ in Creutz, in Trübsal, Angst und Noth, \ Ich bin getauft, deß’ freu \ ich mich, Die Freude \ bleibet ewig= \ lich.

[in right heart]
Ich bin getauft, ob ich gleich sterbe, \ Was schadet mir das kühle Grab? \ Ich weiß mein Vaterland und Erbe, \ Das ich bey GOtt im Himmel hab, \ Nach meinem Tod, ist mir \ bereit, Des Himmels \ Freud, das Fey= \ erkleid.

[added above left heart]
Elisabeth Ditod \ ist gestorben den Ersten \ Junius Im Jahr 1845

[added above right heart]
Diese \ Elisabeth \ Lebte in der Ehe \ Mit Philip Ditod \ Sieben Jahr und 21 tag

[added in lower center]
Susana Mei 
 

Translation:

Birth and Baptismal Certificate.
To these two married people namely Johannes Kämmerer and his lawful wife Susana, a born Märselsin, a daughter was born into the world, named Elisabeth , in the year of our Lord Jesus 1812, on the 15th day of October at 7:30 o’clock in the evening, in the sign of Aquarius. Above mentioned Elisabeth was baptized on the 13th of December by Mr. Hofetitz. Sponsors were Jacob Kämmerer and his wife Machtalina.

Scarcely born into the world, it is only a short measured pace from the first step to the cool grave in the earth. O with every moment! Our strength diminishes, and with every year we grow more ripe for the bier. And who knows in what hour the final voice will awaken us, because God has not revealed this to anybody yet. Who tends to his house will depart from the world with joy. Because surety, in contrast, can provoke eternal death.

Completed by F. Krebs.

[in left heart]
I am baptized, I stand united with my God through my baptism. I therefore always speak joyfully in hardship, sadness, fear and need. I am baptized, that’s a joy for me. The joy lasts eternally.

[in right heart]
I am baptized, and when I die, how can the cool grave hurt me? I know my fatherland and legacy that I will have with God in Heaven. After death, Heaven’s garment of joy and celebration is prepared for me.

[added above left heart]
Elisabeth Ditod died on the first of June in the year 1845.

[added above right heart]
This Elisabeth lived in marriage with Philip Ditod for seven years and 21 days.

[added in lower center]
Susana Mei.
 

Category: Birth and Baptismal Certificate (Geburts und Taufschein)
Media Type: Letterpress Prints
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:

Hand-drawn; hand-colored; hand-lettered; printed. The main text and imprint in Fraktur, with blanks infilled by hand in German script, is within a large heart in the center of the document. Two verses are within hearts in the lower corners. The hearts are surrounded by several flowers.

Associated Names: Ritter, Johann
Bibliography:

"Johann Jacob Friederich Krebs"  in Russell D. and Corinne P. Earnest, Papers for Birth Dayes: Guide to the Fraktur Artists and Scriveners (East Berlin, Pa.: Russell D. Earnest Associates, 1997), 2^nd ed., vol. 1, pp. 460-467.

Klaus Stopp, The Printed Birth and Baptismal Certificates of the German Americans (East Berlin, Pa.: Russell D. Earnest Associates, 1998) vol. 4, p. 158.

Secondary Place Town/Township: Geographic Coverage State/Province:Pennsylvania
Geographic Coverage City/Town/Township:Hamilton Township
Geographic Coverage Note:Based on location of birth
Geographic Coverage Region/County:Northampton [now Monroe]

Creation Place Town/Township: Creation Place Note:Based on location of printshop
Region/County:[Berks]
City/Town/Township:[Reading]
State/Province:[Pennsylvania]

Creation Year (Single Year or Range Begin): ca. 1808
Image Dimensions Width: 31.3 cm
ShelfMark: FLP 1127
Creator Name: Friedrich Krebs (1749-1815) - Decorator
Susanna Mei (?-?) - Scrivener
[Johann Ritter (1779-1851)] - Printer/Publisher