Item No: frkB00001

Title:
Bookplate (Bücherzeichen) for Rossina Reinwalt

Category:
Bookplate (Bücherzeichen)

Creators:
Decorator: [Block Print Artist (active c. 1792-1793)]
Scrivener: [Block Print Artist (active c. 1792-1793)]

Creation Place:
County: [Bucks or Montgomery]
State/Province: [Pennsylvania]
Note: Based on design characteristics

Creation Date: 10/15/1792

Physical Description: Leaf

Dimensions: 10.1 cm x 16.6 cm

Material: Laid paper; watercolor; ink

Media Type: Manuscripts

Language: German

Scripts/Text: Fraktur; German script

Associated Names: Reinwalt, Rossina

Notes:

N. B. See also FLP Borneman Ms. 26.

Hand-drawn; hand-colored; hand-lettered. The image includes the opened book, with the bookplate on the left and the first page of music on the right. The text in Fraktur and German script within a circle is in the center of the left page. It is flanked on each side by undulating, leafy flowers. The right page is covered with music and lyrics in Fraktur. The entire document is framed by a decorative border. This bookplate is in the tune book for which it was made.  (PA GER Borneman 26)

Another tune book by the same artist was made for Christina Kriebel on May 10, 1793.

 

Transcription:

Hermodlisches \ Melodeye Büchlein Über \ Die bekanste Lieder Im Mar \ burger Gesang buch Verfertiget vor \ Rossina Reinwalt \ Dir zur Ehr [sic, it should be Lehr] und Gott \ zu Ehr geschrieben \ d. 15 October \ 1792

Translation:

Little harmonious melody book for the best known songs in the Marburg hymnal. Prepared for Rossina Reinwalt, for your instruction and god’s glory. Written the 15th of October 1792.

Provenance:
Henry S. Borneman

Bibliography:

Henry S. Borneman, Pennsylvania German Bookplates (Philadelphia: Pennsylvania German Society, 1953), published as plate 19.

Mary Jane Lederach Hershey, "The Notenbüchlein Tradition in Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Community Schools," in Cory M. Amsler, ed., Bucks County Fraktur (Kutztown, Pa.: Pennsylvania German Society, 1999), p. 146.

Weiser Number: 841

Subjects:

• Flowers
• Leaves
• Music
• Tulips

Source:
Rare Book Department