BEIN 1742 Yale Library 7.6.28: Bound with his Discourses on various important subjects. Boston, 1738. Pages 3-4, 67-68 mutilated. and Signatures: A4a4B-L4.
Publisher:
Printed & sold by S. Kneeland [and] T. Green, over against the prison in Queen-street
Subject (Geographic):
Massachusetts and Northampton.
Subject (Name):
Colman, Benjamin, 1673-1747.
Subject (Topic):
Conversion, Great Awakening, Revivals, and Church history
Faithful narrative of the surprising work of God in the conversion of many hundred souls in Northampton
Description:
BEIN 1742 Yale Library 1.5.56: Copy presented to Yale college by Dr. Watts and Dr. Guyse, through Benjamin Colman; with manuscript note on fly-leaf and manuscript corrections on the t.p. and in the text by Jonathan Edwards: Cf. Anne S. Pratt, Isaac Watts and his gift of books in Yale College, New Haven, 1938, p. 97-99. Yale shelf marks: 8.7.23 and 1.5.56 crossed out., Signatures: A⁸ B-F⁸² G⁸ (G7-8 blank), and The error on the t.p. is due to the confusion of Hampshire county in Massachusetts with New Hampshire province.
Publisher:
Printed for John Oswald, at the Rose and crown, in the Poultry, near Stocks-market
Manuscript on parchment (hair side quite yellow) of Paulus de Sancta Maria (of Burgos; 1353-1435), Scrutinium Scripturarum. With Passages concerning the conversion of Jews to Christianity; (a) unidentified; (b) Letter of Pope Gregory I to Pascasius, bishop of Naples
Description:
In Latin., Script: Arts. 1 and 3 written below top line in fere-humanistic script by a single scribe who frequently erased and rewrote the text; art. 2 added in another hand. Some later marginalia., Crudely executed initial and full border on f. 9r: gold initial, 11-line, on blue rectangular ground, with white vine-stem ornamentation highlighted in green; border in gold, blue, pale pink, mauve and green, consisting of swirling acanthus leaves, flowers, birds, gold dots and leaves around bar border in upper and outer margin, and with putti supporting laurel wreath (arms effaced) in lower margin. One penwork initial of pathetic quality, 8-line, red and blue divided body accompanied by red and blue penwork designs, on f. 125v. Table of contents (art. 1) and headings throughout, in bright red. Remains of notes to rubricator., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Red goatskin, with green, gold-tooled labels. Yellow edges.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Naples (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Paulus de Sancta Maria.
Subject (Topic):
Conversion, Christianity, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Judaism, and Manuscripts, Medieval
