Item No: frk00716v

Title:
Writing Exercise (Vorschrift) for Abraham Landes

Category:
Writing Exercise (Vorschrift)

Creators:
Scrivener: [Johann Adam Eyer (1755-1837)]

Creation Place:
Town/Township: [Perkasie]
County: [Bucks]
State/Province: [Pennsylvania]
Note: Based on inscription on document

Creation Date: 5/25/1780

Physical Description: Leaf

Dimensions: 21.2 cm x 16.3 cm

Material: Laid paper; ink

Media Type: Manuscripts

Language: German

Scripts/Text: German script

Associated Names: Eyer, Johann Adam; Landes, Abraham

Notes:

Hand-lettered. This is the inside back cover of a writing exercise booklet (Vorschriftenbüchlein), the front of which is FLP 716. The religious text serves as typical example of the writing exercises that students completed. Such booklets were typically produced by the Mennonite school system.

Transcription:

[intentionally not transcribed]

Provenance:
Levi E. Yoder

Bibliography:

"Johann Adam Eyer" 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), 2^nd ed., vol. 1, pp. 256-260.

Don S. Yoder, "Fraktur in Mennonite Culture," The Mennonite Quarterly Review 48, no. 3 (July 1974): 305-342; published as fig. 5.

Frederick S. Weiser, “I A E S D: The Story of Johann Adam Eyer, Schoolmaster and Fraktur Artist,” in Ebbes fer Alle-Ebber, Ebbes fer Dich: Something for Everyone—Something for You (Breinigsville, Pa.: The Pennsylvania German Society, 1980).

Source:
Rare Book Department