SOLD C. Mid 19th Century German Manuscript Devotional with Fraktur Lettering and Amazing Drawings antique paper folding a source of endless treasures

a source of endless treasures

12" long x 3" wide x 1/4" deep

as well as many other sorts of herbs

I read this painting as portraying a figure (whom I take for a woman) carrying a load (looks like bundle of kindling

SOLD C. Mid 19th Century German Manuscript Devotional with Fraktur Lettering and Amazing Drawings antique paper folding a source of endless treasuresI often regret not having taken German, if only to be able to properly read beautiful German and Pennsylvania German fraktur lettering, but the beauty of this manuscript certainly transcends written language, and perhaps feels all the holier for my lack of capacity to readily translate it! It is what I believe would properly be described as a devotional (a prayer book, but infused with personal reflections, meditations etc.) With the assistance of AI,