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Gerhard Tersteegen Der Frommen Lotterie, 1744 [The Holy Lottery]
Permanent ID:
14187Date:
1744Image Description:
A small leather box with 381 accompanying cards [randomly organized], each containing a message from the Bible, followed by a verse of four lines by Gerhard Tersteegen [1697-1769]. These cards were printed by Christoph Sauer, Sr. the first German printer in America whose shop was located in Germantown [now part of Philadelphia]. Sauer, like Tersteegen, was a radical Pietist and these cards were used for some sort of spiritual edification, mostly likely in the form of bibliomancy.Address:
, GermantownPhiladelphiaFormat:
ArtifactRelated People or Organizations:
Christoph Sauer, 1693-1758 (printer)Gerhard Tersteegen, 1697-1763 (creator)