SOLD C. Mid 19th Century German Manuscript Devotional with Fraktur Lettering and Amazing Drawings antique paper folding but with plenty more fun

but with plenty more fun left in it

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

And also very humble and patient and too shy for ask for anything

a source of endless treasures

If there were ever a thing to make one long for a big pitcher of fresh squeezed lemonade (or just to feel better about the lemons life might be handing out)

SOLD C. Mid 19th Century German Manuscript Devotional with Fraktur Lettering and Amazing Drawings antique paper folding but with plenty more funI 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,