Manuscript volume on paper, in several hands, two-thirds of which contains numerous brief commonplace book entries in Latin and English arranged under alphabetical Latin headings. The most frequently quoted author is Seneca, but there are also passage...
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Richard Fitzherbert (d. 1653?) received his M.A. from New College, Oxford in 1605 and was appointed rector of Cucklington in Somerset in 1607. He was also rector of Stoke Tristor and Gussage All Saints from 1621, as well as Archdeacon of Dorset. In hi...
Subject (Name):
Fitzherbert, Richard, d. 1653?
Subject (Topic):
Aphorisms and apothegms, Classical literature, Conduct of life, English prose literature, and Fathers of the church
Holograph commonplace book containing excerpts from books, magazines and newspapers on a variety of subjects, including antiquities; recent history and politics; voyages of discovery; agriculture and agricultural improvement; natural history; methods ...
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Richard Bailye of Lichfield (b. 1718) was a schoolfellow of Peter and David Garrick at the Lichfield Grammar School, and joined them in the wine trade for several years in the 1760s. Bailye probably continued his father's bookselling business in Lich...
Autograph letter, in Arabic Maghrabi script, conveying a greeting to Major John Owen in Raleigh, and consisting chiefly of quotations from the Qur'an and from treatises on Arabic grammar. Quotations from the Qur'an include: Sūrat al-Najm (21-23); Sūra...
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Omar ibn Said, also known as Moro or Moreau, was a West African Muslim born and educated in the Futa Toro region on the Senegal River. He was sold into slavery in approximately 1807 and transported to the United States. From approximately 1810 until t...
Subject (Geographic):
North Carolina., Africa., North Carolina, Cape Fear River Region., United States., Cape Fear River Region (N.C.), and United States
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Key, Francis Scott, 1779-1843., Owen, James, 1784-1865., Owen, John, 1787-1841., Said, Omar ibn, 1770?-1863., Taylor, John Louis, 1769-1829., and American Colonization Society.
Subject (Topic):
African American Muslims, African Americans, Colonization, Arabic language, Grammar, Slavery, Enslaved persons, Enslaved persons' writings, American, and Race relations
