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Object Name

Tunebook, Manuscript

Object ID #

2012.80.1

Other Name

Notenbuchlein

Title

Jacob Hunsberger manuscript tunebook, 1804

Creator

Unknown

Place of Origin

Skippack Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (or vicinity)

Date

1804

Material

Laid paper, ink, watercolor

Dimensions

H-3.75 W-7.75 inches

Description

Manuscript tunebook with fraktur bookplate for Jacob Hunsperger (Hunsberger) in the Skippack School, May 14, 1804. The bookplate is colored in red, black and yellow. The name Jacob Hunsperger is in large fraktur lettering; the capitals J and H in red, decorated with stylized leafy vines; the lower-case letters vary between red with black dots, black with red dots, and yellow with red dots. Above the name are natural-looking vines with red and black leaves. Two lines of text (including date and location) are below the name, in German script. A prominent triple border surrounds; the inner border is wide, with diagonal sections of black and red alternating all around and sloped yellow sections in the center of top and bottom, and with red-and-black stars in the upper corners; the outer two borders are narrower, the inner one black and the outer one red. The black and some red ink has transferred
onto the facing flyleaf; this flyleaf also contains two instances of practice of the German script text: "Sing Schüller In der Schippacher Schule". The tunebook has a thin paperboard cover, green on the outside. The name "Jacob Hunsperger" is inscribed on the front in German script and a now unreadable inscription on the rear outside cover. An ownership inscription by Jacob Hunsperger in English script inside the rear cover has been scratched out and is mostly unreadable. There are six double-sided pages and one single-sided page of tunes, all in the same hand as the bookplate, and generally in alphabetical order, with semitones, intervals and the typical "Jesulein, bleibe mein" tune at the beginning. Each page carries four tunes, 52 tunes total. Several blank flyleaves follow, the last of which bears the name "Mary???a Hunsberger[?] inscribed in pencil.

Notes

[Bookplate TRANSCRIPTION]:
Jacob Hunsperger \ Sing Schüller In der Schippacher Schule Singe diese \ Nothen alle recht so bist du ein getreuer knecht Geschrieben [den] 14ten May 1804

[Bookplate TRANSLATION]:
Jacob Hunsberger, singing scholar in the Skippack School. Sing these notes well, that you may be a faithful servant. Written the 14th of May 1804.

[Tunes included]:
1. Semitonia / Interfallen [semitones and intervals]
2. Jesulein, Bleibe mein, Brüderlein, ich will sein, Treu und Rein, Nim doch dein, Küchlein ein Jesulein
3. Ach mein Herrtz liebes Jesulein
4. Ach Gott Erhör mein Seufzen
5. Alle Menschen Müssen sterben
6. Ach Gott und Herr, wie Groß
7. Ach wachet auf Es Sind
8. Ach Jesu mein Bruder und Bräutigam
9. Allein auf Gott setz dein vertraun
10. Bedencke mensch daß ende
11. Betrübtes Hertz Seÿ wohl gemuth
12. Christus der ist mein Leben
13. Christ Lag in Todtes Banden
14. Du Friedens Furst Herr Jesu Christ
15. Der Tag ist Hin mein Jesu
16. Die nicht [sic] ist vor der Thür
17. Dencket doch Ihr menschen
18. Einen guten Stampf Hab ich
19. Es ist gewißlich an der Zeit
20. Ehre Seÿ Jetzo mit Freuden gesungen
21. Edler meister aller Tugend
22. Egypten Egypten gute nacht
23. Freÿsch auf mein Sell verzage nicht
24. Gelobet seÿst du Jesu Christ
25. Geh auß mein Hertz und Suche Freud
26. Grosser prophete mein Hertze Begehrn
27. Guter Hirte wilt du nicht
28. Herr Jesu Christ dich zu uns wend
29. Hilf Herre Gott uns würmmelein
30. Himmel Erde Lusst und meer
31. Ich Rufs zu dir Herr Jesu Christ
32. Jammar Hat mich gantz umgeben
33. Jesu meine Freude, meines Hertz uns In Tich Hab ich
34. Jesu Ruffe mich von der welt
35. In dich Hab ich gehoffet Herr Jesu mei
36. Ihr Sinder kommt gegangen
37. Ihr völcker auf der Erden all Psalm 100
38. Ihr knecht daß Herren allzugleich Psalm 134
39. Singt mit Freÿer Stimm Psalm 81
40. Ich will dich Herr von Hertzens grund Psalm 9
41. Nun Lobt und danckt gott allesemen Psalm 105
42. Wie nach Eriner wasser quelle 42 Psalm
43. In dir ist Freude in allem Leÿde
44. Mein Lebens Faden Lausst zu ende
45. Meine Hofnung stehet weste
46. Mache dich mein Geist Bereit
47. Mir nach sprucht Christus unser Held
48. Gottes Himmels und der erden
49. Sag was Hilft alle welt
50. Mein Heÿland habe auf mich acht
51. Wer nur den Lieben Gott Läßt walten
52. Gott Hat daß Evangelium gegeben

[Rear flyleaf, in poor English script, in pencil]:
Mary???a Hunsberger[?]

[Inside rear cover, in English script, but scratched out, so it is difficult to read]:
[???] \ Jacob Hunsperger his Book 18?? \ steal not this book for fear of shame for under- \ neath is the oners [sic] name for fear ??? ??? ??? \ ??? ??? ??? will ??? the ??? ??? ??? \ the ??? ??? ??? ??? take ??? \ take ??? that ??? ??? ??? Jacob Hunsberger \ ??? ??? \ 1810[?]

Provenance

Previously owned by collecter Jay R. Moyer of near Lederach, PA, who purchased it at a Landis family auction in November 2002.

The original owner, Jacob Hunsberger, is undentified.

The style is similar to some Schwenkfelder fraktur.

Source

Mennonite Heritage Center purchase, from the Rachel Rich Fraktur Fund

Related Publications

Hershey, Mary Jane Lederach. This Teaching I Present: Fraktur the Skippack and Salford Mennonite Meetinghouse Schools, 1747-1836 (Intercourse, PA: Good Books, 2003), p. 122.

Collection

Fraktur