- Creator:
- Bradley, Hester
- Call Number:
- Osborn d93
- Image Count:
- 52
- Abstract:
- Autograph manuscript collection of original religious poems, verse prayers, and metrical hymns, dated 1803-1831. Also includes: some dedicatory, elegaic, and occasional poems of a religious nature; poems on nature and on friendship; an abolitionist poem; some riddles.
- Description:
- For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., Inscriptions on front pastedown: Hester Bradley 1807; and in another hand, in pencil: Quaker poetess., and Paper watermark: 1806.
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian poetry, English, Hymns, Prayers, Quakers--Poetry, Religious poetry, English, Religious poetry--Women authors, Women authors, and Women--Religious life--Poetry
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commonplace book, [1807 and later].
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- Creator:
- Pseudo-Augustinus
- Published / Created:
- [between 1500 and 1550]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 236
- Image Count:
- 384
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of 1) Pseudo-Augustine, Soliloquia, translated into Greek by Demetrius Cydonius; first leaf missing. 2) Creed of St. Athanasius. 3) Various prayers and hymns, some by John of Damascus and Macarius, but most anonymous
- Description:
- In Greek., Watermarks: Harlfinger Chapeau 74., Script: Written by a single scribe in tall, upright minuscule., Decorative initials, 6- to 5-line, in red with simple floral designs; rubrics throughout., and Binding: 16th-17th centuries. Three original chain-stitched supports, the thread laced into square-edged, flush, wooden boards grooved on the edges. The beaded, colored endbands are sewn on cords which are attached in holes in the edges of the boards. The edges are painted with a red and black interlace design, the spine smooth and round. Covered in brown goatskin, blind-tooled with concentric borders, different on each board, the central panels filled with flowers and small diamonds. One pin hole in the edge of the upper board, three holes for a strap in the lower. Rebacked. According to A. R. A. Hobson, the binding originated in Crete.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Pseudo-Augustinus. and Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados.
- Subject (Topic):
- Creeds, Hymns, Manuscripts, Medieval, Mysticism, and Prayers
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Soliloquia, etc