Item Info

Scripts/Text: Fraktur
Language: German
Weiser Number: 892
Physical Description: Leaf
Material: Wove paper; watercolor; ink
Transcription:

Samuel Heydrich \ Sein Gesang buch \ Last unß gehn und \ dretten mit singen \ und mid bäetten zu \ der grossen Jessus lieb \ die sich däglich zu unß \ neiget und unß auf \ seine stege führet 1844

Translation:

Samuel Heydrich’s hymnal. Let us go and walk with singing and with praying to the great love of Jesus which descends to us daily and leads us on his path. 1844.

Category: Bookplate (Bücherzeichen)
Media Type: Manuscripts
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:

Hand-drawn; hand-colored; hand-lettered. The text in Fraktur is in the center of the document. Above it is an image of the sky, and below it is an image of the ground. The entire item is framed by a decorative border. This bookplate is in the hymnal Neueingerichtetes Gesang=Buch (Philadelphia: Conrad Zentler, 1813).   (PA GER Philadelphia 1813 N393)   For another bookplate in the same book, see FLP B-36a.

Associated Names: Heydrich, Samuel
Provenance: Levi E. Yoder

Bibliography:

"Baltzer Heydrich"  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. 390-391.

Dennis K. Moyer, Fraktur Writings and Folk Art Drawings of the Schwenkfelder Library Collection (Kutztown, Pa.: Pennsylvania German Society, 1997), pp. 142-147.

Creation Place Town/Township: Creation Place Note:Based on artist's location
Region/County:[Montgomery]
City/Town/Township:[Lower Salford Township]
State/Province:[Pennsylvania]

Creation Year (Single Year or Range Begin): 1844
Image Dimensions Width: 17 cm
ShelfMark: FLP B-36b
Creator Name: [Baltzer Heydrich (1765-1846)] - Decorator
[Baltzer Heydrich (1765-1846)] - Scrivener