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

what I have seen

and among my favorites ever

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 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,