Item Info

Creation Date: 10/10/1821
Scripts/Text: Fraktur; German script
Language: German
Weiser Number: 175
Physical Description: Leaf
Material: Wove paper; watercolor; ink
Transcription:

Das Gesangbuch \ gehöret mir \ Anna Kiehly \ Lorsolfort Taunschip \ Geschrieben d. 10ten \ October im \ Jahr Christi \ Anno \ 1821

Translation:

This hymnal belongs to me, Anna Kiehly. Lower Salfort Township. Written the 10th of October in the year of Christ Anno 1821.

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

Hand-drawn; hand-colored; hand-lettered. The text in Fraktur and German script within a heart is in the center of the document. Above it are three flowers. Below it are two birds. The entire item is framed by a decorative border. This bookplate is in the Mennonite hymnal Die kleine geistliche Harfe (Germantaun: Michael Billmeyer, 1820).   (PA GER Germantown 1820 K673)

This is one of several closely-related bookplates made by schoolmaster Jacob Hümmel in 1821.  Anna Kiehly (1804-1890) was the daughter of Conrad and Catharine Kiehly and the second wife of Abraham Alderfer.

Associated Names: Kiehly, Conrad
Provenance: Levi E. Yoder

Bibliography:

Mary Jane Lederach Hershey, This Teaching I Present: Fraktur from the Skippack and Salford Mennonite Meetinghouse Schools, 1747-1836 (Intercourse, PA: Good Books, 2003); published as plate 103, p. 139; see also p. 171 and 177.

Creation Place Town/Township: Creation Place Note:Based on inscription on document
Region/County:Montgomery
City/Town/Township:Lower Salford Township
State/Province:Pennsylvania

Image Dimensions Width: 16.5 cm
ShelfMark: FLP B-42
Creator Name: [Jacob Hümmel (active c. 1815-1822)] - Decorator
[Jacob Hümmel (active c. 1815-1822)] - Scrivener