Catalogue description COMMONPLACE BOOK

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Details of MS 3360
Reference: MS 3360
Title: COMMONPLACE BOOK
Description:

Theological commonplace book of Nathan Prince, Fellow of Harvard College, Massachusetts (America). He notes on p.i, 'My method in this common place book (much the same as in others of mine) with respect to the notes on any passages of the antients has been to set down the judgment of criticks of all sorts whether Papists or Protestants, orthodox or haeretical writers, as I happened to light on them any where, and this too most commonly without mentioning their names, and also intermingling them with my own remarks. So that none can tell whose notes they are, or whether true and just ones or false and deceitfull. The distinguishing those from these being not my design here but meerly to fling my own notes and those of others all together in a heap for a future examination'.

 

List of contents (p.ii).

Date: 18th century
Held by: Lambeth Palace Library, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Physical description: iii + 216 pages
Physical condition: Bound in vellum with remains of label reading 'N.Pr...vol.II'. Some leaves at end removed.
Immediate source of acquisition:

Transferred from the Fulham Papers in Lambeth Palace Library.

Custodial history:

Subsequently the volume came into the possession of Thomas Prince (1687-1758), minister of Old South church, Boston (America), theologian, collector, and brother of Nathan Prince. On p.1 is the printed bookplate with manuscript additions of Thomas Prince c.1750. It reads:

 

This book belongs to the New-England-Library, begun to be collected by Thomas Prince, upon his entring Harvard-College, July 6, 1703; and was given by said Prince to said Librarie in memory of his dear brother the Rev. Nathan Prince MA, formerly Fellow and Tutor of Harvard College, Cambridge, born at Sandwich Nov. 30 1698, and died at the Island of Rattan about July 25 1748, and wrote this ms before he left the college in 1742.

 

Also the rough sketch of a bird.

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