Approximately 12 letters from Anne Forster Berkeley to William Samuel Johnson, 1770-1771 and undated, concerning their mutual interest in mystical Christian doctrine and spirituality. Letters include and are accompanied by excerpts, copies and transl...
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Anne Forster married Church of Ireland clergyman George Berkeley in 1728. The couple spent the early years of their marriage in Middletown, Rhode Island before returning to Ireland, where Berkeley was appointed Bishop of Cloyne in 1734. Four of their...
Subject (Name):
Berkeley, Anne Forster, 1700-1786., Berkeley, George, 1685-1753., Berkeley, George, 1733-1795., Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe- 1651-1715., Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte, 1648-1717., Hooke, N. 1690?-1763. (Nathaniel),, Johnson, Samuel, 1696-1772., and Johnson, William Samuel, 1727-1819.
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, Devotional literature, English, Devotional literature, French, Faith and reason, Meditations, Mysticism, Sprituality, Theology, Doctrinal, Women, and Religion
Manuscript, on parchment, in at least two hands, of the commentary on the fourth book of Peter Lombard's Sentences by Petrus de Tarantasia's (later Pope Innocent V). This manuscript is a palimpsest; the parchment is from at least three unidentified th...
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In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Innocent V, Pope, approximately 1224-1276., Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, approximately 1100-1160., Dominicans., and San Domenico (Church : Gaeta, Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Palimpsests, and Theology, Doctrinal
Manuscript on paper of 1) Pseudo-Dionysius Areopagita, Epistolae, translated into Latin by Iohannes Sarracenus (?). 2) Commentary by Albertus Magnus (here ascribed to Thomas Aquinas) on art. 1. 3) Commentary on a poem on Book I of the Sentences of Pet...
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Pseudo-Dionysius, the Areopagite.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval, Scholasticism, and Theology, Doctrinal
Manuscript on paper composed in three parts. Part I: Nicolas of Amiens, De articulis fidei catholicae. Part II: Johannes de Rupescissa, Prophecy. Part III: Various unidentified religious texts
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Nicolas of Amiens.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval, Prophecy, Christianity, and Theology, Doctrinal
32 ALS, 28 written by Jonathan Edwards, Jr. to John Ryland, dated 1785-1800. There are two letters from S. E. Dwight (dated 1818 and 1822), and one letter each from Jonathan Walter Edwards (dated 1803) and Timothy Edwards (dated 1819). The letters con...
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John Ryland was a Baptist minister in England. Jonathan Edwards, Jr. was an American theologian and son of the Calvinist theologian and philosopher. John Walter Edwards was the son of Jonathan Edwards, Jr. S. E. Dwight was the son of Timothy Dwight an...
32 ALS, 28 written by Jonathan Edwards, Jr. to John Ryland, dated 1785-1800. There are two letters from S. E. Dwight (dated 1818 and 1822), and one letter each from Jonathan Walter Edwards (dated 1803) and Timothy Edwards (dated 1819). The letters con...
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John Ryland was a Baptist minister in England. Jonathan Edwards, Jr. was an American theologian and son of the Calvinist theologian and philosopher. John Walter Edwards was the son of Jonathan Edwards, Jr. S. E. Dwight was the son of Timothy Dwight an...
Miscellaneous Syriac texts, as follows: 1. "Pauline Epistles". The end only (folio 1a). 2. "Questions by Queen of Sheba to King Solomon" (folios 1b-2b). 3. Letter of Philoxenus of Mabbug to Patrikios (Patricius) of Edessa (folios 3a-4b). 4. Miscellane...
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In Syriac.
Subject (Name):
Isaiah, Abba, -489 or 491., John, the Solitary, of Apamea, active 5th century., Moses bar Kēphā, 813?-903., Philoxenus, Bishop of Hierapolis, approximately 440-523., Sheba, Queen of., and Solomon, King of Israel.
Subject (Topic):
Sacraments, Syrian churches, Resurrection, Syriac language, and Theology, Doctrinal
