Object Record
Images
Metadata
Object Name |
Bookplate |
Object ID # |
1989.13.1 |
Title |
Samuel Godshall bookplate, 1834 |
Creator |
Godshall, Samuel K., 1808-1898 |
Place of Origin |
Franconia Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania |
Date |
1834 |
Material |
Wove paper, watercolor, ink |
Dimensions |
H-6.5 W-4 inches |
Description |
1834 edition of the Zions Harfe (Franconia Mennonite hymn-book) with a fine bookplate by Samuel Gottschall of Franconia Township: "das Neue Gesangbuch, 1834. Dieses Jahr 1834." Design consists of two long bird heads forming a heart around the inscription and a fan-plume aboce the heart. Colors: red, blue, green, yellow, black. |
Notes |
TRANSCRIPTION: Das Neue Gesangbuch 1834 Dieses Gesangbuch Gehöret Mir Samuel Gottschall Geschrieben Im Jahr 1834 TRANSLATION: This new songbook 1834 This song book belongs to me Samuel Gottschall written in the year 1834 |
Provenance |
Made by Mennonite schoolteacher and fraktur artist Samuel K. Godshall (1808-1898) of Franconia Township, Montgomery County, for himself. He never married and is buried in the Souderton Mennonite Cemetery. This book passed to his niece Susanna G. Bergey Derstine (1837-1917), grandmother of the donor. |
Source |
Gift of Claude & Naomi Derstine Shisler, in memory of James B. Derstine |
Related Publications |
Hershey, Mary Jane Lederach. This Teaching I Present: Fraktur from the Skippack and Salford Mennonite Meetinghouse Schools, 1747-1836. Intercourse, PA: Good Books, 2003, p. 148. |
People |
Godshall, Samuel K., 1808-1898 |
Collection |
Fraktur |