Textile Fabrics / A Descriptive Catalogue of the Collection of Church-vestments, Dresses, Silk Stuffs, Needlework and Tapestries, forming that Section of the Museum

by Daniel Rock

in . DiESEm . TuCH . miT . mEinER . HAnDT .

DAmiT . ES . WERD . mEinEn . KinDERn . BEKAnDT .

DiESES . mEin . GROSSES . LEiD .

WELCHES . miR . VOn . GOTT . WARD . BEREiT .

“When one wrote the year Fifteen hundred and ninety-nine, on the first of April after midnight, just at one o’clock—often I think of it—my truly beloved husband, the Squire Henry von Geispitzheim, was called to Thee, O God! from this world, according to Thy will. His age was sixty and eight years. The dropsy has killed him. To him grant, O God! Thy mercy, after Thy will. I, his afflicted Anna Blickin von Liechtenperg who was left behind, have related it with my hand in this cloth, that it might be known to my children—this my great sorrow, which God has sent me.”

“DEn . FunFFTEn . AuGuST . BALDT . HERNACH .

WiEDERum . SiCH . FUGT . EiN . LEiDiG . SACH .

mEin . JUnGSTER . SOn . EimCH . Ein . ZWiLLinG .

VOn . DiESER . WELT . ABSCHiEDT . GAB . GEHLinGS .

DARDuRCH . WARDT . miR . mEin . LEiD . GEmERT .