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Von Der Gestalt Der Erden, Leonhard Euler

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A Brief History Of The Pequot War (1736), John Mason, Paul Royster , Editor

Electronic Texts in American Studies

John Mason’s posthumously published account is the most complete contemporary history of the Pequot War of 1636–1637. Written around 1670, and published in part in 1677 (although misattributed by Increase Mather to John Allyn), the complete text was issued by Thomas Prince in 1736. That text is reproduced here in a corrected and annotated edition that includes Prince’s biographical sketch of Mason and various dedicatory and explanatory documents.

John Mason (c.1600–1672) commanded the Connecticut forces in the expedition that wiped out the Pequot fort and village at Mystic and in two subsequent operations that effectively eliminated the Pequots as a …

Memoirs Of Odd Adventures, John Gyles

Settler Literature Archive

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An Examination Of William Notcutt's Reply To H.B'S Vindication Of R. Barclay's Apology, Henton Brown

Historical Quaker Books

Wherein the deceit of the said W.N. is father manifested; his many abuses of the people call'd Quakers detected; and the genuine sense of their writers asserted; against his gross and palpable perversions of them.

The Threefold Paradise Of Cotton Mather: An Edition Of "Triparadisus", Reiner Smolinski

Electronic Texts in American Studies

No other American Puritan has fueled both the popular and academic imagination as has Cotton Mather (1663-1728). Colonial America's foremost theologian and historian, Mather was also one of its most powerful voices advocating millennialism. His lifelong preoccupation with this subject culminated in his definitive treatise, "Triparadisus" (1726/1727), left unpublished at his death. In it, Mather justified his ideological revisionism; his response to the philological, historical, and scientific challenges of the Bible as text by English and continental deists; and his hermeneutical break from the orthodox exegeses of his father, Increase Mather, and Joseph Mede. In his critical introduction to this …

Aegidius Bohmius, August Hermann Francke, 16 April 1725, Aegidius Bohmius

Francke Nachlass Correspondence

Correspondence, dated 1725, from Aegidius Bohmius, to August Hermann Francke

Crisis Del Ensayo A La Historia De La Florida, Joseph De Salazar

Select Florida Studies Publications

A short history of Florida spanning 200 years written by Joseph De Salazar.

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.

An Act For Explaining Several Clauses In An Act Passed The Last Session Of Parliament, For The Relief Of The Sufferers Of The Islands Of Nevis And Saint Christopher, By Reason Of The Invasion Of The French There, In The Year One Thousand Seven Hundred And Five.

British Parliamentary Acts

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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.

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.

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).

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 …

Phineas Pemberton, Alice Hodgson Pemberton, May 28, 1700, Phineas Pemberton

Pemberton Correspondence

Letter dated May 29, 1700 (May 18, 1700 Old Style) from Phineas Pemberton to his wife, Alice Pemberton. The contents of the letter include trouble with Phineas' affairs which have lengthened his stay and business conducted with Thomas Clark.

Phineas Pemberton, Alice Hodgson Pemberton, May 28, 1700, Phineas Pemberton

Pemberton Correspondence Transcriptions

Letter dated May 29, 1700 (May 18, 1700 Old Style) from Phineas Pemberton to his wife, Alice Pemberton. The contents of the letter include trouble with Phineas' affairs which have lengthened his stay and business conducted with Thomas Clark.

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.

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.

Daniel Gould, Phineas Pemberton And Phebe Pemberton, March 7, 1697, Daniel Gould

Pemberton Correspondence

Letter dated March 7, 1697 (February 26, 1696 Old Style) from Daniel Gould to Phineas Pemberton.

Daniel Gould, Phineas Pemberton And Phebe Pemberton, March 7, 1697, Daniel Gould

Pemberton Correspondence Transcriptions

Letter dated March 7, 1697 (February 26, 1696 Old Style) from Daniel Gould to Phineas Pemberton.

Phaenomena Quaedam Apocalyptica Ad Aspectum Novi Orbis Configurata. Or, Some Few Lines Towards A Description Of The New Heaven (1697), Samuel Sewall, Reiner Smolinski , Editor

Electronic Texts 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 …

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 …

Massachusetts: Or The First Planters Of New-England, The End And Manner Of Their Coming Thither, And Abode There: In Several Epistles (1696), John Winthrop, Thomas Dudley, John Allin, Thomas Shepard, John Cotton, Joshua Scottow, Paul Royster, Editor Of The Online Electronic Edition

Joshua Scottow Papers

In 1696 there appeared in Boston an anonymous 16mo volume of 56 pages containing four “epistles,” written from 66 to 50 years earlier, illustrating the early history of the colony of Massachusetts Bay.

The four “epistles” compiled in Massachusetts, or The First Planters were all originally addressed to English or European audiences:

1. The Humble Request of His Majesties Loyal Subjects (1630), sent from aboard the Arbella and usually attributed to John Winthrop, defended the emigrants’ physical separation from England and reaffirmed their loyalty to the Crown and Church of England.

2. Thomas Dudley’s letter “To the Right Honourable, My …

New Yorke Considered And Improved A.D. 1695, John Miller, Victor Hugo Paltsits, Paul Royster (Depositor)

Electronic Texts in American Studies

The following work is essentially a line-for-line facsimile of Victor Hugo Paltsits’ edition of John Miller’s New Yorke Considered and Improved A.D. 1695. Miller’s work was written during his tenure as chaplain to the British soldiers stationed in New York from June 1692 until July 1695. His first draft was thrown overboard to avoid its falling into the hands of the French privateers who captured the ship in which he was returning to England. Miller re-wrote his work while imprisoned in France, finished it after his return to England in 1696, and presented it as a report to his …

The Wonders Of The Invisible World. Observations As Well Historical As Theological, Upon The Nature, The Number, And The Operations Of The Devils (1693), Cotton Mather, Reiner Smolinski , Editor

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I. Some Accounts of the Grievous Molestations, by DÆMONS and WITCHCRAFTS, which have lately annoy’d the Countrey; and the Trials of some eminent Malefactors Executed upon occasion thereof; with several Remarkable Curiosities therein occurring.
II. Some Counsils, Directing a due Improvement of the terrible things, lately done, by the Unusual & Amazing Range of EVIL SPIRITS, in Our Neighbourhood: & the methods to prevent the Wrongs which those Evil Angels may intend against all sorts of people among us; especially in Accusations of the Innocent.
III. Some Conjectures upon the great EVENTS, likely to befall, the WORLD in General, and …

Regulæ Communes: Codex Sarzana 3

Textes Normatifs

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Regulæ Communes: Codex Sarzana 2

Textes Normatifs

No abstract provided.

Patrick Robinson, Phineas Pemberton, July 15, 1687, Patrick Robinson

Pemberton Correspondence

Copy of a letter dated July 15, 1687 (July 5, 1687 Old Style) from Patrick Robinson to Phineas Pemberton. Written at the bottom of the letter are remarks from Phineas Pemberton.

Patrick Robinson, Phineas Pemberton, July 15, 1687, Patrick Robinson

Pemberton Correspondence Transcriptions

Copy of a letter dated July 15, 1687 (July 5, 1687 Old Style) from Patrick Robinson to Phineas Pemberton. Written at the bottom of the letter are remarks from Phineas Pemberton.

An Arrow Against Profane And Promiscuous Dancing Drawn Out Of The Quiver Of The Scriptures, Increase Mather

Electronic Texts in American Studies

When a dancing master arrived in Boston in 1685 and offered lessons and classes for both sexes during times normally reserved for church meetings, the Puritan ministers went to court to suppress the practice. Increase Mather (1639-1723) took the leading part, writing and publishing this tract, which compiles arguments and precedents for the prohibition of “Gynecandrical Dancing, [i.e.] Mixt or Promiscuous Dancing, viz. of Men and Women … together.” These justifications were certainly shared with the court, which found the dancing master guilty, fined him £100, and allowed him to skip town.

Mather’s tract on dancing is an overwhelming compendium …