Preview
Scrivener
Daniel Diefenbach (active circa 1825-73)
Decorator
Daniel Diefenbach (active circa 1825-73) or Peter Montelius
Accession Number
PAG1998.192
Creation Date
1825
Description
Printed Taufschein with large central heart surrounded by colored floral sprays.
Dimensions in Inches
8 x 13
Dimensions in Centimeters
20 x 33
Materials
Watercolor and ink on wove paper
Technique
Drawn, Hand colored, Hand lettered
Print Shop Location
East Buffalo Township, Pennsylvania
Associated Places
East Buffalo Township, Union County, Pennsylvania
Category
Birth and baptismal certificate (Geburts-und-Taufschein)
Motifs
flowers, heart, floral
Associated Names
Peter Montelius, Margretha Stitzer, Johanna, Georg Heim, John Shaffer
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
Transcription
Johanna Montelius,/Eine eheliche Tochter von Peter Montelius und seinem Eheweib/Margretha, (geb. Stitzer,) wurde zur Welt geboren Donnerstags/den 14 ten Tag Julÿ, im Jahr unseres HErrn und Heilandes JEsu/CHristi 1825, im halb 11 Uhr Nachts, in Buffaloe Tschp. Union/Caunty, in dem Staat Pennsylvanien, und wurde Mitwochs, den/3ten August, 1825, durch die Heilige Taufe dem Dreyeinigen GOtt/gewidmet, von Joh. Georg Heim, Ev: Lutherischen Pre=/diger, im Schulhause daselbst getauft, und mit/Namen Johanna Montelius als ein/Mitglied der Erlösung theilhaftig gemacht./Taufzeugen waren: Die Eltern.
Translation
Johanna Montelius, A legal daughter of Peter Montelius and his legal wife Margretha (born Stitzer) was to the world born Thursday the 14th day of July in the year of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ 1825, at half before 11 o’clock in the evening, in Buffalo Township Union County, in the state of Pennsylvania, and was Wednesday the 3rd of August 1825, through the Holy Baptism of the Trinity of God dedicated, by Johan Georg Heim, Evangelist Lutheran Preacher, in the schoolhouse therein baptized, and with the name Johanna Montelius made an initial member of the Redemption. Baptismal sponsors were: the parents.
Comment
Peter Montelius printed this Taufschein for his daughter Johanna. He and his wife sponsored her baptism, held at the schoolhouse. A number of certificates printed by Montelius exist that were all decorated by the same hand, but it is difficult to know if Daniel Diefenbach who infilled them also decorated them, or if Montelius himself decorated them. Woodcut stamps were used to provide the design patterns.
Condition
Good
Bibliographical Reference
Stopp #215.2. Listed by Stopp under #215.1.
Published
Minardi, Lisa. Roots: Ursinus College and the Pennsylvania Germans (Trappe, Pa.: Historic Trappe, 2019), p. 86, fig. 3.60. 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. 74.
File Format
.jpeg
Type
image
Keywords
fraktur, Pennsylvania German, Pennsylvania Dutch, folk art, illuminated manuscript, taufschein
Image Location
Rights Statement
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