Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of about 390 entries in verse and prose, which present satirical as well as sentimental and elegiac perspectives on the subjects of love, women, religion, and death. Titles include A reflection on death; On the death of a mother; Written in consequence of the execution of a young man for forgery, by Mrs. Taylor; Hymn by Miss Scott; To a lady who sung in too low a voice; On kissing; On female neatness after marriage; Advice to a young lady lately married; Unbeliever's creed; Sir Isaac Newton's creed; and numerous humorous epigrams and epitaphs. Several anonymous poems are labeled "Forton Prison" and dated 1795; the collection also includes poems by Tobias Smollett, Samuel Bishop, Samuel Rogers, Samuel Butler, and William Cowper
Description:
In English., 16-page index at beginning of manuscript., Title from title page. Also on title page: Vol 1., Laid in: newspaper clipping from the Daily Telegraph dated April 16, 1974., and Binding: half calf over paper-covered board; back cover missing. In gilt on spine: Gleanings.
BEIN JWJ A +C7195: Imperfect: Paper brittle. Mutilated with loss of text: 5:2., BEIN JWJ A +C7195: Stamp of Jerome B. Peterson: 1:2-1:5, 4:3-4:4, 5:2-5:5, 6:3-6:5, 13:5, 14:1, 14:5, 14:9, 15:2-15:3, 16:4, 17:5., BEIN JWJ A +C7195: Imperfect: pages 367-358 wanting; ownership inscription: Kate Grasses: 14:6., BEIN JWJ A +C7195: Imperfect: front cover wanting: 2:6., BEIN JWJ A +C7195: Bound with covers upside down; autograph: George R. Rainey: 17:4 Copy 1., SML MIC Film S398: 4 reels 35mm., Vols. 1-17, 1900-09. 2 v., and Imprint varies: May 1900-₍Feb. 1904₎, Boston, Colored Co-operative Pub. Co
Collection of three hagiographical Syriac texts, as follows: 1. "Tašʻítā d-Māry Matāy wa-d-Māry Andrʼāwus Šlíḥē" (folios 2a-18b; pages 3-36), Story of the Apostles Saint Matthew and Saint Andrew. 2. "Tašʻítā d-Abbā Marqús Tarmaqāyā" (folios 18b-30b; pages 36-60), Story of Abbā Marcus of Tharmaka (Tarmaq). 3. "Tašʻítā d-Māry Qúryāqús Sāhdā u-ʼemeh Yúlíṭā" (folios 30b-52b; pages 60-104), Story of Cyriacus the Martyr and his mother Julitta. The codex was copied in four days, on the fourth of November (Eastern), of the year 1888, by Sargís bar Yawsep of Gogtapah, during his studying at the College of Urūmīyah
Description:
folio 52b: "It is true then what the authors
Subject (Geographic):
Urūmīyah (Iran)
Subject (Name):
Andrew, Apostle, Saint, Cyricus, Saint, -approximately 304, Julitta, Saint, -approximately 304, Mark, Saint, of Tharmaka, and Matthew, the Apostle, Saint
Subject (Topic):
In literature, Christian hagiography, Syriac language, and Manuscripts