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...
Description:
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
Subject (Name):
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
BEIN If M81 r516: Inscription: Su[m] Tunstalli. From the libraries of Thomas Godwyn, J. Hilton, John Loveday, and the Loveday family from 1736-1940. Contemporary blindstamped Flemish binding, clasps wanting. No.4 of 7 works bound together.
Manuscript on parchment of Guarino of Verona, 1) Regulae grammaticales. 2) De orthographia. 3) Carmina differentialia
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Guarino, Veronese, 1374-1460.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Language and languages, Orthography and spelling, Latin language, Medieval and modern, Grammar, Latin poetry, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on goatskin parchment of the Regulae grammaticales by Conradinus de Pontremulo (Corradino de' Belmesseri).
Description:
Script: Copied by one hand in Gothica Cursiva Libraria (Cancelleresca). The author, Conradinus de Pontremulo, has been identified with the notary Corradino de' Belmesseri, active between the 14th and 15th centuries in Pontremoli (northern Tuscany, pro...
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Conradinus de Pontremulo.
Subject (Topic):
Italian language, Grammar, and Manuscripts, Medieval
