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Accession Number

PAG1998.193

Creation Date

1825

Description

Printed Taufschein with large central heart, two smaller hearts in lower corners with floral-and-vine motif rising from them.

Dimensions in Inches

13 x 15 1/2

Dimensions in Centimeters

33 x 39

Materials

Ink on paper

Technique

Drawn, Hand colored, Hand lettered

Print Shop Location

Lebanon, Pennsylvania

Associated Places

Annville, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania

Category

Birth and baptismal certificate (Geburts-und-Taufschein)

Motifs

floral, flowers, eagles, hearts

Associated Names

David Lang, Catharina Lang, Georg, Hiester

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

Language

German

Transcription

Diesen beyden Ehegatten, als: David Lang/und seiner ehelichen Hausfrau Catharina geborne/ ist ein Sohn zu Welt gebohren, im Jahr unsers/Herrn 1825 den 30sten Tag October, um Uhr /und erhielt in der heiligen Taufe den Namen Georg /von Ehrw. Prediger Hiester. Taufzeugen waren David/und Catharina Lang. Obiges Kind ist gebohren/und getauft in Amerika, im Staat Pennsylvanien, im Caunty/Libanon, in Anville Taunschip.

Wann wir kaum geboren werden, ist vom ersten Lebenstritt, bis ins kühle Grab der Erden,/nur ein kurzgemessener Schritt. Ach mit jedem Augenblick, gehet unsre Kraft zu-/rück und wir sind mit jedem Jahre, allzureif zur Todtenbahre; und [wer] weiß/in welcher Stunde, uns sind [die] lezte Stimme weckt. Dann Gott hats mit seinem Munde, keinem Menschen noch entdeckt./Wer sein Haus nun wohl bestellt, geht mit/Freuden aus der Welt. Da die/Sicherheit hingegen ewiges/Sterben kann erregen.

Libanon:/Gedruckt bey/Jacob Stöver.

Ich bin getauft, ich steh’ im Bunde,/Durch meinen Tauf mit meinem Gott,/So sprech ich stets mit frohem Munde:/In Kreuz, in Trübsal, Angst und Noth/Ich bin getauft das freu ich mich,/Die Freude bleibt mir ewiglich.

Ich bin getauft ob ich gleich sterbe,/Was schadet mir das kühle Grab?/Ich weiß mein Vaterland und Erbe/Das ich bey Gott im Himmel hab,/Nach meinem Tod ist mir bereit,/Des Himmels Freud und Feyerkleid.

Translation

To both of these spouses, David Lang and his legal wife Catharina born is a son to the world born, in the year of our Lord, 1825 the 30th Day of October, at o’clock and received in the holy Baptism the name Georg by Reverend Preacher Hiester. Baptismal sponsors were David and Catharina Lang. Above-mentioned child was born and baptized in America in the state of Pennsylvania in the County Lebanon in Annville Township.

When we are just born…

Lebanon: printed by Jacob Stöver

I was baptized, I stand in the union…

I was baptized, if I die immediately…

Comment

This is the only known example of this certificate with a printed infill, which could have been done with Stöver’s typeface. The lower part of the large heart is decorated with 15 individual stamps used in the border of the heart. Some small variations in the usual text appear, most notably the deletion of wer in “Und [wer] weiß” and the die and addition of sind in “uns sind [die] letzte Stimme..."

Condition

Good

Bibliographical Reference

Stopp #448, Variant

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. 3, p. 153.

File Format

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Type

image

Keywords

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

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