Lot Essay
A similar fraktur schriften text is in the collection of the Free Library of Pennsylvania, 82 - 1263, FLP# 1196, and is attributed to Christian Peters by Donald Shelley. The basis for this attribution lies in the relationship of an example published by Shelley in The Fraktur-Writings or Illuminated Manuscripts of the Pennsylvania Germans, fig. 229, to a signed and dated example in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum of Art (see Shelley, fig. 74d and 75).