1897.] MEKCER — SURVIVAL OF ILLUMINATIVE WRITING. 427 



1. Leaflet 8X inches long by 6^ inches broad. Name. Words, Dieses Vor- 

 schrifften Buchlein Gehoret Margretha Wismerin Schreib Schuler in der Bir- 

 chenseher Schule (now Blooming Glen). Vorgeschrieben der October Ji.te^ 1781. 

 Above a short prayer, surrounded with admonitions to diligence. In rectangle, 

 formed of ornate foliated borders, are three feathered crowns and two angels 

 holding tulips and bloviing trumpets. Tulip stalks spring from hearts. Colors, 

 blue, green, red, yellow and black. Probably made in the last century by Jacob 

 Overholt, teacher in a log schoolhouse near Deep Run, Bucks county. Pa. Pre- 

 sented to the writer by his descendant, David Landis, of Plumsteadville. 



2. Title-page to church song book {Lieder Buck, printed in Germantown, 

 Michael Villmeyer, i8li). Name, Susanna Fretz, upon heart, from which 

 springs a tree with the conventional tulips. Deep beaded bordering, 1814. Colors, 

 red, yellow, brown and black, red predominant. 



3. Title-page to manuscript song book. Name, Susanna Fretz (spelled Freizin 

 for feminine) in red circle, with date, 1810. Stalks, with black leaves and con- 

 ventional tulip to right and left. Foliated border with red leaves on black and 

 yellow ground. 



4. Illuminated card on blank page of same hymn book. Above name, Susanna 

 Fretzin, heart, from which rises conventional tulip. In possession of Henry W. 

 Gross, Doylestown. 



5. Title-page to manuscript hymn book. Name, Joseph Gross ; illuminated 

 letters, foliated capitals. Date, April 20, 1830. Double tulips in foliate border on 

 yellow ground. 



6. Title-page to manuscript hymn book. Name, Sarah lVis?ner. Foliated capi- 

 tals, conventional flowers on heavy stalks. Date, 1827. Colors, yellow, red, 

 brown and blue. 



7. Title-page to ditto. Name, Elizabeth Nesch, spelled N'eschin; with words. 

 Dieses Sing-Noteti Buchlein Gehoret Mir. Sing Schuler in der Bedtninster 

 Schule. Geschrieben, Septe??iber Qten, ivi Jahr, 1799. Three tulips. In 

 possession of Joseph N. Gross, Doylestown. 



8. Title-page to similar book, with tulips floriated capitals, and name, Stauff'er. 

 In possession of Isaac J. Stover, of New Britain. 



C. Rewards of Merit on Loose Leaflets. 



About a I'oot Long by Eight Inches Broad. 

 First there is a text of Scripture, with elaborately illuminated 

 characters, and done in many colored inks, under which a bar of 

 music may set the tune to a German hymn, engrossed in many- 

 verses below. From this rich, floriated text, with its adorned and 

 highly colored borderings, emerge birds, twining stalks growing 

 from symbolic hearts bearing tulips, or angels blowing trumpets. 

 Examples are : 



I. Leaflet, 13^4; inches long by 8^ inches wide, with floriated text, Allda 

 Kreiizigten Sie Ihn., etc., et:., nineteenth chapter of John, eighteenth verse. 



