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South Carolina Colonial Writ Signed By Charles Hill, Charleston, May 8, 1722., George William Frederick, Charles Hill

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

This writ or warrant deals with a case of trespass with damages of 50 pounds sterling.

Manuscript Of Jonathan Swift's Accounts, Jonathan Swift

Harold Wave Whicker Collection of Literary Manuscripts

In this document Swift lists amounts owed to him and expenses as of 8 September 1718.

Effigies, Et Series Chronologica Ministrorum Generalium: Totius Ordinis S. Francisci Minorum Conventualium Concinnatae, Vincenzo Coronelli, 1650-1718

Academy of American Franciscan History Manuscript Collection

16 portraits of the Minister Generals of the Order of Friars Minor, each with handwritten descriptive text and preceded by a portrait of St. Francis of Assisi

Selected Pages From Characteristicks Of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times., Anthony Ashley Cooper Shaftesbury

Selections from Special Collections

3 v. illus., port. 2d. ed., corr.

Some of the pages in this document were selected as part of a class project for Professor Garth Bond’s History of the Book seminar, Spring 2012. The abstract was prepared by Alexis VanZalen.

Donovan Family Recipe Book, Donovan Family

Manuscripts

This book was started by Mary Ogle (sometimes called Marie) in 1713. She was the daughter of the Reverend Honourable Samuel Ogle, M.P. for Berswick and Commissioner of Revenue for Ireland who resided at Bowsden, North Cumberland and Stephen’s Green with his wife Elizabeth Pringle Dawson.

Mary married Captain John Broughton of Maidstone, Kent in 1720 and their daughter Mary was born in Jersey in 1724. She was an heiress and married Edward Donovan, Barrister at Law, of Ballymore, Co. Wexford and 24, Peter Street, Dublin in 1747. They had 21 children, sixteen lived and five died unbaptized. Perhaps, some …

Some Reasons For An European State, Proposed To The Powers Of Europe, By An Universal Guarantee, And An Annual Congress, Senate, Dyet, Or Parliament, To Settle Any Disputes About The Bounds And Rights Of Princes And States Hereafter..., John Bellers

Historical Quaker Books

Excerpt from the conclusion of Beller's argument for an European state: "The judicious sayings, of Henry the 4th of France, show him to be a Prince of great sense, and the Multitude of difficulties her surmounted, of great Courage, but no one thing bespeaks the excellency of his Mind, more than his great Desire, for the Uniting of Christendom.

His excluding the Muscovites, and the Ottomans out of it, I take as a Complement to the See of Rome.

For as nothing makes Nations, and People more Barbarous than War; so Peace must be the first step, to fit Mankind …

Land Grant Between William Penn, E. Shippen, G. Owens, And J. Logan, July 11, 1709, William Penn

Liberty Hall Collection 1700s

The following document is a land grant, on parchment, between William Penn to E. Shippen, G. Owens, and J. Logan.

Will: February 21, 1709

Historical Legal Documents

Will of John Wealthdale, a merchant tailor, of London. Witnessed by William Woolla[s]ton, Deborah Clarke, and Deborah Clarke the Younger.

Florida Del Inca. French (Middle French)., Vega, Garcilaso De La, 1539-1616, Richelet, Pierre, 1626-1698, Translator

Florida Heritage

Describes Hernando de Soto's march of conquest in Florida and other parts of southeastern North America.

Partus Iii Continens 51 Breves Antiphonas, Cajetan Kolberer

Rare Books

Marian music score in four separate part books titled Vox Prima, Vox Secunda, Vox Tertia, Basso Continuo. In mensural notation.

A New Method Of Making Common-Place-Books, John Locke

Deaf Rare Books

No abstract provided.

The Negro Christianized. An Essay To Excite And Assist That Good Work, The Instruction Of Negro- Servants In Christianity, Cotton Mather

Zea E-Books in American Studies

There were enslaved Negroes in New England before there were Puritans there, and by 1700 they numbered about 1,000 out of a total population of 90,000. Roughly half of them lived in Massachusetts, and were concentrated in Boston and the coastal towns. Puritans actively participated in the colonial slave trade, importing them from the West Indies and sometimes selling Indian prisoners into overseas slavery.

Cotton Mather was a slave-owner, and his congregation at the Second (or North) Church included both slave merchants and Negroes. The pamphlet reprinted here appeared in 1706 without his name, but his authorship of it was …

Stabat Mater, Giovanni Pergolesi

Marian Sheet Music

Giovanni Battista's Pergolesi's "Stabat Mater," or the Sorrows of Mary, for voice with unidentified accompaniment (likely for organ or piano).

A Vindication Of The Royal Martyr King Charles I. From The Irish Massacre In The Year 1641 : Cast Upon Him In The Life Of Richard Baxter, Wrote By Himself. And Since In The Abridgment By E. Calamy. Being A Case Of Present Concern. In A Letter To A Member Of The House Of Commons, Thomas Carte

English Historical Library of Wallace Notestein

No abstract provided.

Historica Notitia Della Miracolosa Imagine Della Madonna Santissima Della Consolata: Venerata Nella Chiesa Di S. Andrea De'mm. Rr. Monaci Di S. Bernardo Dell'ordine Cisterciense Di Torino, D. Domenico Arcourt

Rare Books

220 pages; frontispiece engraving of Our Lady of Consolation icon in Turin

Clugnet Collection.

“[D]ata in luce dal molto reuerendo padre D. Domenico Arcourt, priore de'sudetti monaci, e consultore del Sant'Ufficio; consecrata alle glorie dell'istessa regina consolatrice, sotto li fortunati auspicj dell'altezza serenissima di Vittorio Amedeo Filippo Giuseppe, prencipe di Piemonte”—from title page.

The ancient icon of Our Lady of Consolation at the Santuario della Consolata in Turin, believed to be miraculous, has been drawing pilgrims for centuries. It was placed in a chapel in the fifth-century Chiesa di Sant’Andrea, becoming an important shrine of Marian devotion. In the tenth …

Magnalia Christi Americana, Cotton Mather, Thomas Parkhurst

Osher Map Library Rare Books

Full title: Magnalia Christi Americana: or, the Ecclesiastical history of New-England, from its first planting in the year 1620. unto the year of Our Lord, 1698. In seven books ... By the Reverend and learned Cotton Mather. London: Printed for Thomas Parkhurst, at the Bible and Three Crows in Cheapside. MDCCII.

Early New England history.

7 parts in 1 volume

Hunting License, England 1700, Charles Beauclerk

Todd A. Herring Archival Collection

Charles Beauclerk, natural son of King Charles I and his mistress Nell Gwynne was given the title of Duke of St. Albans in 1684. With the title came land, and the wild game living on it. This slip of paper grants permission for Christopher Roleston to hunt in the Duke�s parks. This item was included in the Scrawl and Order exhibit, http://lib.msstate.edu/exhibits/past/.

A Light Shining Out Of Darkness, Or, Occasional Queries Submitted To The Judgment Of Such As Would Enquire Into The True State Of Things In Our Times, Henry Stubbe

Historical Quaker Books

Sometimes attributed to Sir Henry Vane (1613-1662)

Henry Stubbe (1632-1676)

3rd edition, 230 pages

Essays About The Poor, Manufactures, Trade, Plantations, & Immorality And Of The Excellency And Divinity Of Inward Light, Demonstrated From The Attributes Of God And The Nature Of Mans Soul, As Well As From The Testimony Of The Holy Scriptures (1699), John Bellers

Historical Quaker Books

A series of essays by John Bellers.

Selected Pages From A New Discovery Of A Vast Country In America : Extending Above Four Thousand Miles, Between New France And New Mexico : With A Description Of The Great Lakes, Cataracts, Rivers, Plants, And Animals : Also, The Manners, Customs, And Languages Of The Several Native Indians, And The Advantage Of Commerce With Those Different Nations : With A Continuation, Giving An Account, Louis Hennepin

Selections from Special Collections

[24], 243, [33], 228 p., [9] leaves of plates (8 folded) : ill., maps ; 20 cm. (8vo).

Some of the pages in this document were selected as part of a class project for Professor Garth Bond’s History of the Book seminar, Spring 2009. The abstract was prepared by Kyle Brennan.

Les Metamorphoses D'Ovide, T. 1 (Selections), Ovid, Thomas Corneille

As Good Luck Would Have It: The Rich Tradition of Shakespeare Scholarship in the Library

Selection from Ovid's work. Scholars surmise the author was another source of inspriation for Shakespeare; "mises en vers francois par T. Corneille"

Les Metamorphoses D'Ovide, T. 3 (Selections), Ovid, Thomas Corneille

As Good Luck Would Have It: The Rich Tradition of Shakespeare Scholarship in the Library

Selection from Ovid's work. Scholars surmise the author was another source of inspriation for Shakespeare; "mises en vers francois par T. Corneille"

Selected Pages From A Short View Of The Immorality And Profaneness Of The English Stage..., Jeremy Collier

Selections from Special Collections

288 p. 20 cm.

Some of the pages in this document were selected as part of a class project for Professor Garth Bond’s History of the Book seminar, Spring 2012. The abstract was prepared by Megan Hagar.

A New Discovery Of A Vast Country In America, Louis Hennepin, Jacob Tonson

Osher Map Library Rare Books

Full title: A new discovery of a vast country in America, extending above four thousand miles, between New France and New Mexico with a description of the Great Lakes, cataracts, rivers, plants, and animals also, the manners, customs, and languages of the several native Indians, and the advantage of commerce with those different nations with a continuation, giving an account of the attempts of the Sieur de la Salle upon the mines of St. Barbe, &c. : the taking of Quebec by the English, with the advantages of a shorter cut to China and Japan : both parts illustrated with …

Phaenomena Quaedam Apocalyptica Ad Aspectum Novi Orbis Configurata. Or, Some Few Lines Towards A Description Of The New Heaven, Samuel Sewall, Reiner Smolinski

Zea E-Books in American Studies

SAMUEL SEWALL (1652-1730) is best remembered as a colonial judge during the Salem Witchcraft trials, as a significant diarist, and as an ardent millenarian, who published a number of eschatological tracts on his favorite obsession. Apart from his political achievements in the colonial judicature, Sewall published a number of significant works. The Selling of Joseph (1700) is one of the earliest abolitionist documents in American history. His famous Diary of Samuel Sewall, 1674-1729 (1878-82) is a Puritan document par excellence and a window on a crucial period in the development of the colony. His millenarian tract Proposals Touching the Accomplishment …

Truth's Innocency And Simplicity Shining Through The Conversion ... (With The Long And Patient Sufferings) Of That Ancient And Faithful Minister And Servant Of Jesus Christ, Thomas Taylor

Historical Quaker Books

First few pages partially missing. Numbers 97-104 are skipped in the page numbering. The group of 54 pages are inserted between p. 130 and 131.
351, 54 pages ; 21 cm

The Talking Deaf Man, Or, A Method Proposed, Whereby He Who Is Born Deaf May Learn To Speak, Johann Conrad Amman

Deaf Rare Books

No abstract provided.

Mercury, Or, The Secret And Swift Messenger : Shewing, How A Man May With Privacy And Speed Communicate His Thoughts To A Friend At Any Distance, John Wilkins

Deaf Rare Books

No abstract provided.

Indenture: March 17, 1692

Historical Legal Documents

Indenture between Elizabeth Palmer of St. Giles, Middlesex (?) and John and Edward Roper of St. Giles, Middlesex.

Old Mens Tears For Their Own Declensions, Mixed With Fears Of Their And Posterities Further Falling Off From New-England’S Primitive Constitution, Joshua Scottow

Zea E-Books in American Studies

This is an online edition of Scottow’s popular tract, published in Boston in 1691, based on the first edition. Later editions were published in Boston in 1715, 1733, and 1749, and in New London in 1769. It is a searchable PDF document. The characteristics of Scottow’s original text (spelling, punctuation, capitalization, italics, etc.) have been retained. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected, and a list of emendations is included at the end. Its typographic design is based on that of the original. The work decries the falling off of New England from the purity and purpose of its original founding, …