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Accession Number

PAG1998.164

Creation Date

1800

Description

Printed design with bottom two hearts set at angle to central heart, elaborate urn and floral vine border at sides, uncolored.

Dimensions in Inches

13 x 15 3/4

Dimensions in Centimeters

33 x 40

Materials

Ink on laid paper

Technique

Drawn, Hand lettered

Print Shop Location

Hanover, Pennsylvania

Associated Places

Pennsylvania

Category

Birth and baptismal certificate (Geburts-und-Taufschein)

Motifs

flowers, hearts, urns, floral

Associated Names

Thomas Titzler, Christina Manbek, Elisabeth, Schulz, Maria Manbek

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

Fraktur lettering, German script

Language

German

Comment

Although this example was left plain, several versions of the edition exist that are elaborately colored.

Condition

Good

Bibliographical Reference

Stopp #282

Published

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. 228. Shoemaker, Alfred L. Check List of Pennsylvania Dutch Printed Taufscheins. (Lancaster, Pa.: Pennsylvania Dutch Folklore Center, 1952). p. 24.

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Keywords

fraktur, Pennsylvania German, Pennsylvania Dutch, folk art, illuminated manuscript, taufschein

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