Ein schön Gebätt, Durch Gottes Gnad auffgesetzt von einer Wittwen in dem Toggenburgischen Schweitzer-Krieg 1712. ... Diesen wird noch beygefügt ein schön New Geistlich Lied, Wo ist Jesus mein Verlangenm mein Geliebter und mein Freund, etc. Jn seiner bekandten Melodey zu singen
A German devotional prayer sheet printed in 1712, a prayer written by a widow during the Toggenburg war and paired with a hymn to be sung to a known melody; the publisher is unidentified and it was held by the Zurich city library. The single picture is a printer's ornament: a dense symmetrical cluster of scrolls, curls and small rounded knobs in a roughly oval frame, with a library stamp in the corner that is not part of the design. A designer could draw on its tightly packed, mirror-balanced scrollwork as a source for border or flourish motifs.
