Item Info

Creation Date: 3/16/1820
Scripts/Text: Fraktur; German script
Language: German
Weiser Number: 725
Physical Description: Leaf
Material: Laid paper; watercolor; ink
Transcription:

Dieses Gebätbuch \ Gehöret Mir \ Barbara Herstein \ Von Limmerick \ Taunschip \ Montgomery \ Caunty \ Geschrieben Im Jahr Chrsti \ Anno 1820 d 16ten Märtz

Translation:

This prayer book belongs to me, Barbara Herstein, of Limerick Township, Montgomery County. Written in the year of Christ Anno 1820, the 16th of March.

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

Hand-drawn; hand-colored; hand-lettered. The text in Fraktur and German script extends across the entire document. It is framed on the sides by a row of flowers. This bookplate is in the prayer book D. Joh. Habermanns von Eger ... Christlich Gebät=Buch (Germantaun: Peter Leibert, 1794)  (PA GER Germantown 1794 H113).

Associated Names: Hümmel, Jacob
Provenance: Henry S. Borneman

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 101, p. 138; see also p. 139.

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

Image Dimensions Width: 16.2 cm
ShelfMark: FLP B-95
Creator Name: [Jacob Hümmel (active c. 1815-1822)] - Decorator
[Jacob Hümmel (active c. 1815-1822)] - Scrivener