Item Info

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

Diese beyden Ehegatten, als Daniel Raup und seiner ehelichen \ Haus=Frau Catharina eine gebohrne Schumacherin ist eine Tochter zur \ Welt gebohren, Namens Maria Catharina im Jahr unsers HErrn JEsu 1810 \ den 29. Tag November um 11 Uhr Nachts im Zeichen dem Steinbock. \ Diese Maria Cathar. ist Gebohren und Getauft in America, im Staat Pennsylvanien, \ in Northampton Caunty, in Williams Taunschip, \ Obgemelde Maria Cathar. ist Getauft worden den 30. December 1810 \ von Herrn Christ Endres Tauf=Zeugen waren Gottfried Raup und \ seine Frau Maria Margaretha

Wann wir kaum geboren 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 letzte Stimme weckt: \ Dann GOtt hat’s mit seinem Munde, Keinem Menschen noch endeckt. \ 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 heart on left]
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 heart on right]
Ich bin getauft, ob ich gleich sterbe, \ Was schadet mir das kühle Grab? \ Ich weiß mein Vaterland und Erbe, \ Daß ich bey GOtt im Himmel hab, \ Nach meinem Tod, ist mir \ bereit, Des Himmels \ Freud, das Fey= \ erkleid.
 

Translation:

To these two married people, namely Daniel Raup and his lawful wife Catharina, a born Schumacherin, a daughter was born into the world, named Maria Catharina, in the year of our Lord Jesus 1810, the 29 day November, at 11 o’clock at night, in the sign of Capricorn. This Maria Cathar. was born and baptized in America, in the state of Pennsylvania, in Northampton County, in Williams Township. Above mentioned Maria Cathar. was baptized the 30th of December 1810, by Mister Christ. Endres. Sponsors were Gottfried Raup and his wife Maria Margaretha. 

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 we grow 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.

Prepared by F. Krebs.

[In heart on left]
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 heart on right]
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, the garment of celebration, is prepared for me.
 

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

Hand-drawn; hand-colored; hand-lettered; applied cutouts; printed form. The main text and imprint, in fraktur with blanks infilled in German script, is within a large heart in the center of the document. Two verses are within hearts below it. The hearts are surrounded by hand-drawn flowers and stars as well as various applied cutouts of birds. In the upper center and below the large heart are flowers with faces. In the lower center are two plant containers with tulips.

See FLP 1158 for the Taufschein of mother Catharina Schumacher Raup.

Associated Names: Schumacher, Catharina
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), 2nd ed., vol. 1, pp. 460-467.

Frederick S. Weiser, “Ach wie ist die Welt so Toll! The Mad, Lovable World of Friedrich Krebs,” in Der Reggeboge 22, no. 2 (1988): 49-88.

Klaus Stopp, The Printed Birth and Baptismal Certificates of the German Americans (East Berlin, Pa.: Russell D. Earnest Associates, 1998) vol. 4, p. 150.

Secondary Place Town/Township: Geographic Coverage State/Province:Pennsylvania
Geographic Coverage City/Town/Township:Williams Township
Geographic Coverage Note:Based on location of birth
Geographic Coverage Region/County:Northampton

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. 1806
Image Dimensions Width: 31.3 cm
ShelfMark: FLP 1157
Creator Name: [Johann Ritter (1779-1851)] - Printer/Publisher
Friedrich Krebs (1749-1815) - Decorator
Friedrich Krebs (1749-1815) - Scrivener