Object Record
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Metadata
Object Name |
Bookplate |
Object ID # |
1988.11.1 |
Title |
Veronica Yoder bookplate by Andreas Kolb, Upper Saucon,1791 |
Creator |
Kolb, Andreas, 1749-1811 (attributed) |
Place of Origin |
Upper Saucon Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania |
Date |
1791 |
Material |
Laid paper, ink, watercolor |
Dimensions |
H-5.375 W-3.25 inches |
Description |
Bookplate for Feronica Joder [Veronica Yoder] of Upper Saucon Township, on the front flyleaf of a copy of the Mennonite catechism "Christliches Gemueths-Gespraech" (Germantown: Michael Billmeyer, 1790). The plate is dated May 31, 1791. The first two lines of the ownership statement are in pink-red fraktur lettering, and the rest of the text is in German script. A stem with three large flowers (two are tulips) grows up from the owner's name, colored red, blue, yellow and brown. There are swaths of this same coloring (but mostly yellow) surrounding the bookplate, with a flourish at the bottom, and yellow dots between the lines of text. The book itself is in a brown leather binding, has a single clasp, and is in relatively good condition. |
Notes |
TRANSCRIPTION: Feronica Yoder \ gehoeret Diesses buechlein \ zu, Soll eĆ nun verlohren gehn, So \ Kan Man Hir Mein Nahme \ Sehn, in Ober Sacon wohne Ich \ geschrieben den 31ten May \ im Jahr Anno 1791 TRANSLATION: This little book belongs to Veronica Yoder. Should it become lost, one can see here my name. I live in Upper Saucon. Written the 31st of May in the year 1791. |
Provenance |
Made for Veronica Yoder (Geissinger) (1778-1858), daughter of Casper & Veronica Sell Yoder of Upper Saucon Township. In adulthood, she married Daniel Geissinger (1778-1853) and they are buried in the Springfield Mennonite cemetery. This plate is part of a series of similar bookplates by Andreas Kolb in Mennonite catechisms in Upper Saucon, all dated in the spring of 1791. See list of Kolb's fraktur in Hershey, "Andreas Kolb", Mennonite Quarterly Review (April 1987). There is another series of bookplates in this same edition of the Christliches Gemueths-Gespraech, done later in 1791 in the Deep Run Mennonite school and attributed to John Adam Eyer (see pg. 258 in Amsler, "Bucks County Fraktur" (Doylestown, PA, 2001). For more on the relationship between Kolb and Eyer, see Hershey, "Andreas Kolb", MQR (April 1987), pp. 132-134. |
Source |
Mennonite Heritage Center purchase |
Related Publications |
Hershey, Mary Jane Lederach. "Hidden Treasures in the Mennonite Heritage Center Fraktur Collection". Der Reggeboge 46:2 (2012), p. 20-21. Hershey, Mary Jane Lederach. "Andreas Kolb, 1749-1811: Mennonite Schoolmaster and Fraktur Artist". Mennonite Quarterly Review LXI (April 1987), pp. 121-201. |
People |
Geissinger, Veronica Yoder, 1778-1858 Kolb, Andreas, 1749-1811 |
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Notes on Related Objects |
Gemueths-Gespraech bookplates by Kolb and Eyer, 1791 |
Search Terms |
Bookplates |
Collection |
Fraktur |