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Scrivener
Abraham Brubaker (1760-1831)
Decorator
Abraham Brubaker (1760-1831)
Accession Number
PAG1998.167
Creation Date
1801
Description
Large heart with red and yellow tulips and other flowers at bottom and sides, border of alternating red and yellow ellipses with black dots in between.
Dimensions in Inches
11 3/4 x 14 7/8
Dimensions in Centimeters
30 x 38
Materials
Watercolor and ink on laid paper
Technique
Drawn
Associated Places
Salisbury, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Category
Birth and baptismal certificate (Geburts-und-Taufschein)
Motifs
heart, flowers, floral
Associated Names
Jacob Maust, Sophia Devine, Mary, John Faber, Barbara Stephan
Rights
Please contact the Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College for permissions which fall outside of educational fair use.
Source
Ursinus College Library Special Collections and the Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art
Provenance
Pennsylvania Folklife Society
Script/Text
English lettering
Language
English
Translation
Certificate of Birth and Christening Mary Maust Was Born on the 25th Day of January/in the Year of our Lord 1801. And this Child is a Daughter of these/two Parents Jacob Maust and Sophia his Wife; before/marriage Miss Devine This Child was Born in Salsbury Township/in the County of Lancaster and State of Pennsylvania And was Baptised/by Reverend John Faber on the Day of in the Year of our/Lord. Witness present to the holy act of Baptism Barbara Stephan.
An inward Baptism of pure fire, Where with to be Baptized i have;/,Tis all my longing Soul’s desire This, only this, my soul can save.
Comment
Abraham Brubacher was a schoolmaster who worked in Lancaster county and was from a Mennonite family. Despite his Anabaptist background, he made Taufscheine that included baptismal information. Brubacher also used some printed forms and wrote both English and German certificates, sometimes combining the two on the same form. The name Maust or Mast in Lancaster County is an Amish name, although Devine, the maiden name of the mother, is not. This could be a case of the father marrying out of the Amish faith and adopting his wife’s religious practice of infant baptism.
Condition
Good
Published
Minardi, Lisa. Roots: Ursinus College and the Pennsylvania Germans (Trappe, Pa.: Historic Trappe, 2019). p. 77, fig. 3.51. Stopp, Klaus. The Printed Birth and Baptismal Certificates of the German Americans. 6 vols. (Mainz, Germany, and East Berlin, Pa.: privately published, 1997–99). vol. 2, p. 213.
File Format
.jpeg
Type
image
Keywords
fraktur, Pennsylvania German, Pennsylvania Dutch, folk art, illuminated manuscript, taufschein
Image Location
Rights Statement
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