[Ownership inscription detached from Samuel Brant's copy of New Testament].
Contributors: Brant, Samuel, fl. 1779.; Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1779
Language: ger
Subjects: Brant, Samuel, fl. 1779.; Book ornamentation.; Penmanship, German.
Other titles: Pennsylvania Dutch Fraktur work.
Notes: Ms.
Title devised by cataloger.
Spine title on book-shaped slip case: Samuel Brant : Pennsylvania-Dutch Fraktur work : March 17, 1779.
Inscription reads: Dieses Testament gehöret Samuel Brant, anno 1779 den 15 Mertz. Ich bin Mein Heil verbunden ... all Zeit Zu Deinem Dienst und Ehr'.
In calligraphic Fraktur script; last lines in mixed everyday cursive.
Decorated with borders and floral motifs drawn by pen and colored green and light brown.
Bound in rebacked covers of the lost New Testament; remnants of metel clasps.