Fractur Bookplate for Veronica Yoder in 1791 Christliches Gemuths-Gesprach (painting).

Fractur Bookplate for Veronica Yoder in 1791 Christliches Gemuths-Gesprach (painting).

Kolb, Andreas, 1749-1811, painter.

Fractur Bookplate for Veronica Yoder in 1791 Christliches Gemuths-Gesprach (painting).

5 1/2 x 3 1/4 in.

The text of this bookplate reads: "Veronica Yoder gehoret diesses buchlein zu..." (written in Upper Saucon Township, on the 31st of May in the year of our Lord 1791). Colors are red, blue, yellow, brown, and black. There are also leaves and tulips. The bookplate is in a 1791 Christliches Gemuths-Gesprach (Mennonite Catechism) from Billneyer, Germantown, Pennsylvania.

Primitive -- Fractur

Homage -- Yoder, Veronica

Mennonite Historians of Eastern Pennsylvania, Mennonite Heritage Center, 565 Yoder Road, P.O. Box 82, Harleysville, Pennsylvania 19438 Accession Number: 88-11-1

Acquired April 1973.

The bookplate was done for Veronica Yoder of Upper Saucon Township by Mennonite schoolmaster Andreas Kolb of Skippack. He traveled and taught in various schools including Skippack, Salford, Worcester, Saucon, Vincent, and Germantown.

Mennonite Historians of Eastern Pennsylvania, 1988.

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