Manuscript, in the hand of John Abbott, of some of the "accounts of Divine occurrences" written by his wife Ann. Topics include her first religious awakenings, temptations, and conversion; experiences of the Spirit at Quaker meetings; her struggles with the proper division between love of God and love of family and friends; and her occasional fondness for "fine dress." This is followed by a copy of a 1789 letter to a young man containing moral and business advice. Abbott concludes this section of the notebook with a description of the final illness and death, in 1791, of this "affectionate wife [and] tender mother." and The notebook concludes with "A Memorable Instance of Divine Guidance," which tells the story of "James Dickensen and Jane Fearn," who fled a house in fear of being murdered and eaten, only to discover "some years later" that their hosts were indeed murderers.
Description:
Binding: stiff blue wrappers., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., Front cover annotated: "Manuscript book No. 182.", and Pasted in on last page: ALS from William Button to his "uncel," February 1855.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Religious life and customs--18th century
Subject (Topic):
Christian life--18th century, Conduct of life--18th century, Quakers, Spiritual biography--England, and Women--Religious life--England
Manuscript on paper of Diego Enriquez del Castillo (1433-1504?), Chronicle of King Enrique IV of Castile (1425-74). With the Life of Don Juan Pacheco, Marques de Villena; Decretal texts concerning behavior of clerics; and Brief law text in Latin.
Description:
Binding: Sixteenth century, Spain. Sewn on three tawed skin, slit straps, now broken, laced into channels in wooden boards. One plain wound endband is sewn on a tawed skin core, the other endband was added later. Covered in brown calf blind-tooled with concentric frames, the central panel and alternate frames filled with rope interlace. The layout of the design is the same on both boards but different small tools are used in the central panels. Spine: four fillets outlining the supports and in the center of the panels a small rope tool in the center of the compartments so formed. Two fastenings, the catches on the lower board, the clasp straps later additions. The spine is mended at head and tail; some corners repaired., In Spanish., Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1955 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written by several scribes in late Spanish bookhands with cursive and humanistic features. Some headings in large gothic display script., and Watermarks: unidentified hand.
Subject (Geographic):
Castile (Spain)--History--Henry IV, 1454-1474
Subject (Name):
Enríquez del Castillo, Diego,--1431-1503? and Henry--IV,--King of Castile and Leon,--1425-1474
Subject (Topic):
Biography--Middle Ages, 500-1500, Canon law--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Spanish literature--To 1500
Parchment and paper codex, ff. 87 of which f. 1-3 and 6-19 are of paper, the remainder of parchment, with modern pencil foliation throughout. and Personal commonplace book combining skillful drawings of apparatus, alchemical texts in German vernacular with noteworthy literary character--some of them in verse--and numerous practical procedures.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century. Straight-grained black morocco, gilt single-line perimetric border for each cover and spine, gilt dentelles, and border of the same tools at head and foot of spine, modern tan leather spine label, with legend: HARTUNG V. HOFF VADE MECUM MANUSCRIPT AUSTRIA 1557, Denis Duveen, acquired from Thomas Heller (bookseller), New York, 1949; Mellon MS 71, acquired with the Duveen collection. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965., and Script: Written in a small, neat gothic cursive, additions in a neat italic hand and a rather irregular and sometimes scrawling cursive gothic, both perhaps about 1625.