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Item No: frk00249
Title:
House Blessing (Haussegen)
Category:
House Blessing (Haussegen)
Creators:
Decorator: Anonymous
Printer/Publisher: Isaac Palm
Creation Place:
Town/Township: Brecknock Township
County: Lancaster
State/Province: Pennsylvania
Note: Based on location of printshop.
Creation Date:
1860
Physical Description: Leaf
Dimensions: 35.5 cm x 43.5 cm
Material: Wove paper; watercolor; ink
Media Type: Letterpress Prints
Language: German; English
Scripts/Text: Fraktur; Roman print
Associated Names:
Palm, Isaac
Notes:
Hand-drawn, stamped and stenciled decoration; hand-colored; printed form. The main text, which is printed in fraktur, is within a large heart in the center of the document. The heart’s border consists of a series of stamped or stenciled blue stars. Two kneeling angels and a winged angel head are printed beneath the title. A sitting women holding a shield bearing an anchor and an English inscription is printed above the imprint. The two additional printed verses are beneath the large heart. Above and below the heart are several stamped or stenciled suns. In the lower corners are two stenciled blue dwellings.
Several other copies of this edition are known, with decoration attributed to the same anonymous hand. For another example, see FLP 247.
Transcription:
Haus=Segen.
In GOttes Namen geh ich aus, Ach HErr! regier du heut das \ Haus; Die Hausfrau und die Kinder mein, Laß dir, O GOtt! \ befohlen sein. Bewahr mein Herze, Mund und Hand, Vor großem \ Laster und vor Schand: Gib daß ich mein Sach wohl richt aus, \ Und wider fröhlich komm zu Haus, Daß solches, O getreuer \ HErr! Gereichen möcht zu deiner Ehr. Hüt dich, fluch \ nicht in meinem Haus, oder geh bald zur Thür hinaus: \ Es möcht sonst GOtt vom Himmelreich auch \ Strafen mich und dich zugleich.
Gedruckt und zu haben bei \ Isaac Palm, \ Brecknock Taunschip, \ Lancaster Co. \ 1860.
[on shield, in English]
IN GOD \ WE HOPE
[in heart on left]
O leite mich in Segen, \ dem großen Ziel ent= \ gegen, dahin dein \ Wort mich \ weißt.
[in heart on right]
Mein Leben und mein \ Ende ist dein, in dei= \ ne Hände, befehl \ ich meinen \ Geist.
Translation:
House Blessing
In God’s name I go out; O Lord, rule over my house today. Let the wife and my children be commended to you, o God. Preserve my heart, mouth and hand from great sin and shame; take care that I do my work well, and return home cheerfully, that such, o faithful Lord, will suffice for your honor. Restrain yourself, don’t curse in my house, or go soon out the door. Or else God from heaven will punish me and you at the same time.
Printed and to be had at Isaac Palm, Brecknock Township, Lancaster County, 1860.
[on shield, in English]
In God we hope
[in heart on left]
O, lead me in blessings toward the great goal, to there your word is directing me.
[in heart on right]
My life and my end is yours, in your hands I order my spirit.
Bibliography:
“Isaac Palm Artist” in Russell D. and Corinne P. Earnest, Papers for Birth Dayes: Guide to the Fraktur Artists and Scriveners (East Berlin, Pa.: Russell D. Earnest Associates, 1997), 2nd ed., vol. 2, p. 610.
Subjects:
Source:
Rare Book Department
