Item Info

Creation Date: 1/29/1790
Scripts/Text: Fraktur; German script
Language: German
Weiser Number: 745
Physical Description: Leaf
Material: Laid paper; watercolor; ink
Transcription:

Diesses Gesang Buch \ Gehöret Mir \ Maria Clemer
Thu ich heissen Christi Lehr mich recht thut \ weisen, welchen weg ich wandeln soll, der \ Ist mir gut und Ewig wohl, durch deinen \ geist Herr Lehre mich, damit ich recht er \ kennen dich, und Deinen Willen thu allzeit \ daß wan du komst ich bin bereit, geschrieben \ den 29ten tag January 1790 Bucks Caunty \ Lower Milford Taunschip
 

Translation:

This hymnal belongs to me, Maria Clemer I call myself, Christ’s teaching directs me well the path I shall go, which is good to me, and eternally well, through your spirit, Lord, teach me so that I may rightly recognize you, and do your will at all times, so that when you come I am ready. Written the 29th day of January 1790, Bucks County, Lower Milford Township.

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

Hand-drawn; hand-colored; hand-lettered. The text in Fraktur and German script is in the center of the document. Above it is a decorative calligraphic spiral. The item is framed by a decorative border. This bookplate is in Neu=vermehrt=und vollständiges Gesang=Buch (Marburg und Frankfurt, Ger.: Heinrich Ludwig Brönner, 1782).  (PA GER Marburg 1782 N39)

Associated Names: Kolb, Andreas
Provenance: Levi E. Yoder

Bibliography:

“Andreas Schwartz Kolb” 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. 453-455.

Mary Jane Lederach Hershey, “Andreas Kolb, 1749-1811,” in The Mennonite Quarterly Review 61, no. 2 (April 1987): 121-192.

Mary Jane Lederach Hershey, This Teaching I Present: Fraktur from the Skippack and Salford Mennonite Meetinghouse Schools, 1747-1836 (Intercourse, PA: Good Books, 2003); pp. 101-103, 114-115.

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

Image Dimensions Width: 14.8 cm
ShelfMark: FLP B-1002
Creator Name: [Andreas Kolb (1749-1811)] - Scrivener
[Andreas Kolb (1749-1811)] - Decorator