Manuscript on paper, in a single mixed hand, containing a copy of an edition of William Penn's Some Fruits of Solitude. This version has 467 numbered precepts, aphorisms, and moral observations
Alternative Title:
Some fruits of solitude, in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life
Description:
Six additional aphorisms, numbered 468-473, added at the end of the text in a later hand.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Penn, William, 1644-1718.
Subject (Topic):
Aphorisms and apothegms, Christian life, Conduct of life, Maxims, Military art and science, and Quakers
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 wi...
Description:
Pasted in on last page: ALS from William Button to his "uncel," February 1855.
Subject (Geographic):
England. and Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Christian life, Conduct of life, Quakers, Spiritual biography, Women, Religious life, and Religious life and customs
Media, the middle things., Prima, media, and ultima., Prima, the first things, in reference to the middle and last things., The doctrine and directions, but more especially, the practice and behviour of a man in the act of the new birth., The doctrine of regeneration., and Ultima, the last things.
Description:
BEIN Mhc9 Am23 P6 1654: Imperfect: t.p. for v. [1, pt. 1] wanting.
Publisher:
Printed by T.R. and E.M. for Nath. Webb and Will. Grantham,
Subject (Topic):
Christian life, Future life, and Regeneration (Theology)
Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of a version of this fourteenth-century pastoral manual. The text is in eight sections, or Tabulae, in Latin, with extensive passages in Middle English prose and interpolated Middle English verse
Description:
In Latin and Middle English.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Christian life, English poetry, English prose literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
