Neües Danβerlein Büechel: Winter Und Sommer Gaertlein

Title page of pocket-sized Textile Pattern Book with title page 13 pages of letterpressed text, printed on recto and verso, and 33 plates with small textile patterns. This type of pattern book, dated 1691, is of an unusually small format, featuring intricately decorated titles and text, rarely present in German pattern books for women of the 17th century. The title page contains the title of the book, "Neües Danβerlein Büechel" (New Entertainment Book), inside an oval frame, made up of several thin lines, surrounded by thin scrolling motifs that form semi-abstract branches with leaves, inside an outer rectangular frame, made up of two thin outlines. The title page is followed by a page with the full title and publication details of the book, leterpressed with black and red ink, containing the initials of the publisher and year of publication: H.N.D.C. 1691. A dedication to Maria Magdalena Eckardin von der Thöön auf Stadelkirchen and three double pages of letterpressed text, dated and signed by the publusher, follow. Finally, there are 10 double pages of letterpressed text, written by the author and signed with her initial at the end, with a poem that carefully explains the importance of “entertainment-work,” under which embroidery falls, in the different stages of the life of a woman, as well as the differences between this kind of entertainment and entertainment in the form of dance. Under the initials of the author is an "o" between parentheses, flanked to the sides and below by small, stylized flowers on stems with thin, scrolling leaves.