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<em>The Botanic Garden: A Poem in Two Parts</em>
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Botany, Natural Science, Natural Philosophy
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<a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/erasmus-darwin%20" target="_blank">Erasmus Darwin, 1731-1802</a>
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New York: Printed by T&J Swords
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1798
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Lawton, Jordan
Torrico, Julia
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2v. :ill.; 23cm
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English
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Poem
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Erasmus Darwin’s <em>The Botanic Garden, </em>originally published in two volumes in 1792, was praised as a bestseller. <em>Part Two: The Loves of the Plants</em> was published in 1789, and <em>Part One: The Economy of Vegetation</em> was published in 1791 (Priestman). According to <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/erasmus-darwin">The Poetry Foundation</a>, <em>The Botanic Garden</em> is “structured in rhyming couplets with extensive footnotes [that] addresses a series of scientific concerns, including the beginnings of Darwin’s theory of evolution.” <br /><br /><em>The Botanic Garden</em> is a long poem divided into two sections. The first section, <em>The Economy of Vegetation</em>, is organized into four cantos, each of which focuses on botany and natural science. According to "<a href="http://go.galegroup.com/ps/retrieve.do?tabID=T001&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&searchResultsType=SingleTab&searchType=BasicSearchForm&currentPosition=2&docId=GALE%7CCX2356300089&docType=Critical+essay%2C+Work+overview&sort=RELEVANCE&contentSegment=&prodId=GLS&contentSet=GALE%7CCX2356300089&searchId=R2&userGroupName=vic_marymount&inPS=true" target="_blank">The Botanic Garden: The Economy of Vegetation</a>," the format of the first section contains four cantos that focuses on a particular natural affinity that connects to other natural elements in the world; “Canto I focuses on fire, Canto II focuses on earth, Canto III focuses on water, and Canto IV focuses on air." <br /><br /><em>The Economy of Vegetation</em> is recognized as the more successful portion of The Botanic Garden. <em>The Loves of the Plants</em> is also divided into four cantos, and it is narrated by the Goddess of Botany. Both volumes contain footnotes that are detailed scientific observations and extensive explanations on the mythologies involved in the poems. According to Martin Priestman, author of <em>The Poetry of Erasmus Darwin</em>, “the two parts [of the poem] are so different that it makes sense to call each [section] a poem in its own right” (23). <br /><br />Categorized as a didactic poem, <em>The Botanic Garden's</em> purpose was to educate the public on plant life and to present Darwin’s admiration for plants and natural science. The book popularized the study of scientific investigation. This particular work not only interested and inspired scientists, but it also inspired works by Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, including her novel <em>Frankenstein</em> (1832). <em>The Economy of Vegetation</em> includes a “Rosicrucian doctrine” that relates cultural mythology, philosophy and history to the societal values of Darwin’s time. According to the article <em>Botany for Gentleman: Erasmus Darwin and The Loves of the Plants</em>, it is suggested that <em>The Loves of the Plants</em> reinforced the male view of feminine behavior in the late 1700s. Based on the ideas of natural science in <em>The Botanic Garden</em>, the poem did not experience any religious backlash, and his poem was praised by the scientific community. <br /><br />Later on, the poem and Darwin did receive speculation of how he created <em>The Botanic Garden</em>. Priestman explains that the lengthy opening of <em>The Economy of Vegetation</em> may have been borrowed “or perhaps [was] stolen from Anna Seward’s [an eighteenth-century English Romantic poet] ‘Verses Written in Dr. Darwin’s Botanic Garden, Near Lichfield’ dating from 1778” (24). On the other hand, Siobhan Carroll, specialist of British literature of the Romantic century, suggests that Darwin and Seward worked together on the poems related to <em>The Loves of the Plants</em>. <br /><br />By late 1790s, Darwin’s poem began to receive negative philosophical criticism. Due to conservative philosophers of anti-Jacobin perspective, <em>The Botanic Garden</em> started to lose its high reputation, and <em>Anti-Jacobin</em>, an English newspaper founded in 1797, criticized Darwin’s poem (by using Darwin’s own words) as “an exercise in literary and political foolishness” (Carroll). <br /><br />Today, literary scholars refer to Erasmus Darwin through one or more of the other eighteenth century Romantic poets like Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats in order to present Darwin’s role as the “before” affect to the Romantic period (Priestman).<br /><br /><strong>About the Editions</strong><br /><p>The text in the Marymount University’s Gomatos collection is the first American edition, which was published in 1798, and includes a handwritten note on the flyleaf noting a sale price: "5 vols $25." The American and London editions varied by price and by printing method. The American edition, like the Dublin edition, is printed in octavo, while the London edition is printed in quarto.</p>
<p>Both editions are divided into two volumes, and they are further divided into four cantos, suggesting the Linnean principles of classification. Also, both editions contain detailed footnotes and illustrations. The first London edition of <em>The Botanic Garden</em> was illustrated by William Blake and Henry Fuseli, and the American edition was reprinted with the illustrations by Fuseli. Later editions comprise all content and illustrations in to one volume.</p>
<p><strong>About the Author<br /><br /></strong>Erasmus Darwin was born in Nottinghamshire, England in 1731, and he was the grandfather of Charles Darwin, whom wrote <em>the </em><em>Origin of Species</em> in 1859. Darwin was a physician, poet, and botanist. His strong interest in botany, later, inspired him to write <em>The Botanic Garden</em>. He had also written <em>Zoonomia</em> (1796) and <a href="https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=rLVLAAAAcAAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA2&dq=Erasmus+Darwin&ots=ErH1pDHRbS&sig=940BQKMJFP0TKrynb2jzK5tcfrk#v=onepage&q=Erasmus%20Darwin&f=false" target="_blank">A Plan for the Conduct of Female Education, in Boarding Schools</a> (1797). Darwin was a founding member of the Lunar Society of Birmingham, which greatly influenced the industrial revolution in the late eighteenth-century, which came to also influence the fashion, ideas, and beliefs of English and American society. In 1802, Darwin died due to a lung infection, and his last work, <em>The Temple Nature</em>,was published in 1803.<br /><br /><strong>Further Reading<br /><br /></strong><span>Browne, Janet. “<a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/234174.pdf" target="_blank">Botany for Gentleman: Erasmus Darwin and ‘The Love of Plants</a>’” <em>Isis</em>, vol. 80, no. 4, 1989, pp. 592-621. JSTOR, JSTOR.<br /><br /><span>Carroll, Siobhan. “<a href="http://www.branchcollective.org/?ps_articles=siobhan-carroll-on-erasmus-darwins-the-botanic-garden-1791-1792" target="_blank">On Erasmus Darwin’s The Botanic Garden, 1791-1792</a>.” BRANCH: Britain, Representation and Nineteenth-Century History. Ed. Dino Franco Felluga. Extension of Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net. Web. Accessed 31 Oct. 2018.</span><br /></span><br />Emery, Clark. “<a href="http://proxymu.wrlc.org/login?url=https://search.proquest.com/docview/222959963?accountid=27975." target="_blank">Scientific Theory in Erasmus Darwin's ‘The Botanic Garden’ (1789-91)</a>.” Isis, vol. 33, no. 3, 1941, pp. 315–325. <em>JSTOR</em>, JSTOR.<br /><a href="Emery,%20Clark.%20%E2%80%9CScientific%20Theory%20in%20Erasmus%20Darwin's%20%E2%80%98The%20Botanic%20Garden%E2%80%99%20(1789-91).%E2%80%9D%20Isis,%20vol.%2033,%20no.%203,%201941,%20pp.%20315%E2%80%93325.%20JSTOR,%20JSTOR,%20www.jstor.org/stable/330787" target="_blank"><br /></a>"<a href="https://academic.eb.com/levels/collegiate/article/Erasmus-Darwin/29406" target="_blank">Erasmus Darwin</a>." Britannica Academic, <em>Encyclopædia Britannica</em>, 20 Oct. 2008. Accessed 1 Nov. 2018.<br /><br /><span>“<a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/erasmus-darwin" target="_blank">Erasmus Darwin</a>” Poetry Foundation. 30 Oct. 2018.</span><br /><br /><span>Garfinkle, Norton. “<a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2707638.pdf" target="_blank">Science and Religion in England, 1790-1800: The Critical Response to the Work of Erasmus Darwin</a>.” The Journal of the History of Ideas, vol. 16, no. 3, 1955, pp. 376-388. <em>JSTOR</em>, JSTOR.<br /><br /></span><span><span>George, Sam. “<a href="http://web.a.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=1&sid=60fa94b1-b1bc-46ed-bf0f-21e004ef35d7%40sessionmgr4008" target="_blank">Carl Linnaeus, Erasmus Darwin and Anna Seward: Botanical Poetry and Female Education</a>.” Science & Education, vol. 23, no. 3, Mar. 2014, <span><span>pp. 673–694, <em><span>EBSCOhost</span></em></span></span>.</span><br /><br />Page, M. (2005). “<a href="https://search.proquest.com/docview/198414070/fulltextPDF/C22B0E96E8A04AE4PQ/1?accountid=27975" target="_blank">The Darwin before Darwin: Erasmus Darwin, Visionary Science, and Romantic poetry.</a>” Papers on Language and Literature, 41(2), 146-169.<br /><br /><span><span>Priestman, Martin. </span><span>The Poetry of Erasmus Darwin: Enlightened Spaces, Romantic Times</span><span>. Burlington, Ashgate, 2013. Print. </span></span><br /><br /><span>"<a href="http://go.galegroup.com/ps/retrieve.do?tabID=T001&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&searchResultsType=SingleTab&searchType=BasicSearchForm&currentPosition=2&docId=GALE%7CCX2356300089&docType=Critical+essay%2C+Work+overview&sort=RELEVANCE&contentSegment=&prodId=GLS&contentSet=GALE%7CCX2356300089&searchId=R2&userGroupName=vic_marymount&inPS=true" target="_blank">The Botanic Garden: The Economy of Vegetation</a>." British Writers, Supplement 16, edited by Jay Parini, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2010, pp. 129-131. Gale Virtual Reference Library, </span><span><span>Accessed 30 Oct. 2018.</span></span><br /></span></p>
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London: Macmillan and Co.
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1876
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The Hunting of the Snark: an Agony, in Eight Fits
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Cox, Sinclair
Dalce, Naiya
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xi, 83 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
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English
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<p><span>Published in 1876, </span><span><em>The Hunting of The Snark</em> </span><span>by Lewis Carroll is a poem about nine men and a beaver on a quest for a snark. The poem focuses on the journey the characters embark on and is so outlandish that some have called it an epic, but the tale the poem spins isn’t meant to hold any message or moral. Carroll wrote this poem without any intention for it to be seen as an allegory; it’s just a poem of nonsense about fictional beings and whimsical people. Throughout his life, Carroll loved writing stories and poems with imaginary creatures and made-up words. Between 1860 and 1863, he contributed much of his work to </span><span>College Rhymes</span><span>. Later on, he wrote his own book of poems and from those, one in particular stood out from the rest in which he called, “fits”,</span><span> which later became </span><em>The Hunting of the Snark. </em><span>The poem was created one night when he went for a walk, and the line, “For the Snark was a Boojum, you see!” popped into his head. The rest of the poem was composed over six months and over time it became an inspiration for different works, such as parodies, musical adaptations, and more. </span></p>
<p><span>There are thirteen hundred copies of </span><span><em>The Hunting of the Snark</em>, </span><span>and </span><span>Marymount University’s Gomatos Special Collection holds one, but the edition number of the Marymount text isn’t known. The pictures were illustrated by Henry Holiday and the book was published by Macmillan and Co. and printed by R. Clay, Sons, and Taylor, Printers, Bread Street Hill. </span></p>
<p><em>The Hunting of the Snark </em><span>is classified as a nonsense poem and was written to have no meaning whatsoever; nonetheless, many scholars and readers believe that there is some deeper message to be found within Carroll’s poem. They believe that his poem is an allegory due to the last line of the poem, “For the Snark was a Boojum, you see!” From this line, readers suggest the Boojum may be a representation of man’s unending attempts to search for something that can’t be found. Despite Carroll creating this poem with no meaning in mind, meaning was created from it in the most ironic way as readers and scholars take the poem’s last words and turn them into something that they were not meant to be.</span></p>
<p><strong>Further Reading<br /><br /></strong>Consenstein, Peter. "<a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/637369/pdf" target="_blank">The Transmetrical Snark.</a>" Mln 131.4 (2016): 932-43. ProQuest. Web. 25 Oct. 2018.<br /><br />Holquist, Michael. “<a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/3040720" target="_blank">What Is a Boojum? Nonsense and Modernism.</a>” Yale French Studies, no. 96, 1999, pp. 100–117. JSTOR, JSTOR.<br /><br />Wakeling, Edward. “<a href="https://publicdomainreview.org/2011/02/22/lewis-carroll-and-the-hunting-of-the-snark/" target="_blank">Lewis Carroll and The Hunting of the Snark.</a>” The Public Domain Review, 22 Feb. 2011. </p>
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Fables
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London : printed for J. Tonson and J. Watts
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194 p. : ill. ; 21 cm
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Old English
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OCLC : (OCoLC)642407561
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Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Illustrator: William Kent (1685- 1748) and John Wootton (1682- 1764)
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1728
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As described by the <em>Oxford English Dictionary</em>, a fable is “a short story devised to convey some useful lesson" and especially "one in which animals or inanimate things are the speakers or actors.” The dictionary then dates the word's first appearance in 1340 in Kentish, an English dialect. William R. Wray states in his book <em>The English Fable</em> that “animal fables originally began in the middle of the eighteenth century” and were a new storytelling format brought to the country after the English Civil Wars catalyzed a separation from Georgian culture (<em>The English Fable</em>, Lewis). As a result, animal fables then spread to all aspects of English culture. The fable became such a popular genre that it initiated a change in Brittan’s academic literary circles. It became the standard for textbooks and spread widely to scholars all throughout England. At the time, there was already a significant evolution of literature happening in England and the country became the leading developer of the prosaic voice through the emerging form of the novel. In fact, the Augustan age, which took place from around 1700 to 1750, was praised as the “Golden Age of Latin literature” by the <em>Encyclopedia Britannica</em>. The time period Gay lived in was likely as prolific as it was because of the influx of writing genres, such as the Fable, coupled with the widespread availability of the printing press. This combination afforded writers the ability to contribute to the literary culture in a new way. As an important contribution to such a time, Gay’s <em>Fables</em> will forever be held as a noteworthy piece of contemporary eighteenth-century Augustan children's literature. <br /><br /><em>Fables</em> by John Gay was first published in 1727; Marymount University’s Gomatos collection has the 1728 second edition of volume one. Marymount’s ninety-four-page hardcover copy of <em>Fables</em> contains one introductory poem followed by fifty short fables, each with an illustration at the header. The <em>Fables</em> are written in octosyllabic meter with rhyming couplets throughout, enforcing the poems' appeal to adolescent sensibilities. The illustrations in this text were hand carved into copper printing plates designed by William Kent, a distinguished architect, and John Wootton, a famous equestrian and landscape painter and then later engraved into the book by Fourdrinier, Baron, or Van der Gucht. Kent’s etchings can also be seen in Alexander Pope’s <em>The Dunciad</em>, while Wootton’s art is more commonly known to illustrate Shakespeare’s plays. Kent and Wootton were widely popular British artist of the time and members of an elite social circle belonging to The Royal Academy of Arts. The Royal Academy was at the center of English enlightenment for eighteenth-century artists, poets and intellectuals alike. It was a network that connected the acclaimed contemporary writers of the day such as Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, and John Gay, who was strongly influenced by the community of satirical writers who went by the alias Scriblerus. Gay was so influenced by his social circles that within the first few pages of <em>Fables</em> lies a dedication to William Augustus, The Duke of Cumberland. <br /><br />Gay’s work was also largely inspired by classical works such as the famous fables of Aesop. Gay’s fables are considered to be Aesopian, which according to The Oxford English Dictionary, is “a style or language that has hidden or ambiguous meaning, esp. as a device to disguise dissident political writing in allegorical form… so [as to] avoid official censorship.” Gay’s fables seems to do exactly this through his humorously representative titles that anthropomorphise the animals and inanimate objects of Gay’s imagination. Because these fables were meant for children, each tale contains a moral to learn from at the end. This is where Gay uses the form of an Aesopian fable to inserts his own criticism of modern English values with morals like ‘flattery can only get you so far’, and a warning to ‘take even the works of esteemed scholars with a grain of salt’. For example In Fable V, "The Wild Boar and the Ram," the ram in the end essentially proclaims ‘what goes around comes around’ to the taunting boar in the verse “Know, those who violence pursues, / Give to themselves the vengeance due” (Fables 19). The entire book is filled with such cautionary tales suiting paired with rich illustrations of the English countryside and a rhyme scheme that one can’t help but follow. <br /><br />Gay was a dramatist most known for <em>The Beggar's Opera</em> and his poem, <em>Trivia, or The Art of Walking the Streets of London</em>. These works, along with <em>Fables, </em>fall under the genre of satire, a key element of the Augustan age that characterized literature of the period. According to the Poetry Foundation, <em>Fables</em> was “written to win the favor of specific members of the court." As Gay’s dedication to the six-year-old Duke exposes in an introduction that claims Fables was “invented for his amusement." It is obvious that Gay relied on various nobles, including The Earl of Bath and others for support. Considering that patronage was Gay’s means to continue his literary pursuits, it is not surprising that he would rub elbows with the noble. However, despite his need to accommodate the aristocracy, Gay’s work continually subverts the monarchy’s authority by mocking their traditional customs and practices. In <em>Fables</em>, Gay uses imaginary animals to express controversial opinions and persuade readers to disagree with popular opinion. His work provides social commentary on the politics of the time, particularly the role of the crown. Gay was considered to be a controversial writer namely because his play <em>Polly</em>, the sequel to <em>The Beggar's Opera</em>, was banned by the king, which naturally only ignited public interest. To fuel the production of more rebellious writings, Scriblerus, the above-mentioned band of satirists, encouraged each other to undermine social constructs by focusing their work on disrupting conforms. <br /><br /><strong>Further Reading</strong><br /><br />Lewis, Jayne Elizabeth. <em>The English Fable : Aesop and Literary Culture, 1651-1740.</em> Cambridge University Press, 1996. <br /><br />Gay, John, and Faber, G. C.. <em>The Poetical Works of John Gay, Including “Polly”, “The Beggar”s Opera’ and Selections from the Other Dramatic Work</em>. Oxford University Press, H. Milford, 1926. <br /><br />Nokes, David. J<em>ohn Gay, A Profession of Friendship</em>. Oxford University Press, 1995.
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Alnajem, Nouf
McGale, Maeve
Ramos, Elizabeth
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Document, book
1685-1732
Aesops Fables
Augustan Literature
Childrens Literature
English poetry --Middle English
Fables
Gamatos Collection
John Gay
Poetry
Satire
William Augustus
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To Enlighten and Inspire
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A discussion of the Gomatos collection that appeared in the Fall 2006 issue of <em>MU Today</em>
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Joyce Jones
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Marymount University
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Fall 2006
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Images of relevant pages in <em>MU Today</em>
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Manuscript Leaves
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The Gomatos Collection has a small number of manuscript leaves dating from the 12th-15th centuries.
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MS5 Lectionary Leaf
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Inscribed in the 12th century, this nameless lectionary contains an invocation to the Lord and was most likely used in the celebration of the Christian Mass. A liturgical book is one used during the ceremony of the Mass as opposed to a reference text, which would give instructions on how best to perform the ceremony or when to perform the ceremony. This leaf is originally from France, and as such may not be a version of the Roman Liturgy but a version of the Gallican Rite, the liturgy of ancient Gaul. The leaf contains both prayers and songs, both of which correlate to the specific part of the liturgical calendar in which these invocations should be made.
Marymount University's Gomatos Collection contains a single leaf of vellum, inscribed with musical notations and prayers. Recovered from a binding, the leaf is in pieces loosely reassembled to form a complete page. The text is comprised of few drop capital letters filled in blue and red with small intricate designs. The majority of the text is written in black ink with visible margins and lines.
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Inscription: Oblatis domine qs sec placare munibus. Er inter cedente beato valentino vire tuo acunctis vos defende periculis. Co magna e. Sit noli repano vitis ... ... celeste misterium utemus exequimur auctione. Sentiamus…
Oh lord with what gifts offered?
Further Reading:
Palazzo, Eric, and Madeleine Beaumont. A History of Liturgical Books: from the Beginning to the Thirteenth Century. Liturgical Press, 1998.
Jenner, Henry. "The Gallican Rite." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 6. New York: Robert Appleton Company,1909. 2 Apr. 2018 <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06357a.htm>.
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France
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c1150
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Duong, Nhu-Phuong
Freeland, Allyson
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
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1 leaf vellum
colored illustrations
36 x 27 cm.
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Latin
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https://catalog.wrlc.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=17692408
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Text
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Manuscript Leaves
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The Gomatos Collection has a small number of manuscript leaves dating from the 12th-15th centuries.
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MS 3 French Book of Hours Leaf containing psalms 23 and 24
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Books of hours.
Illumination of books and manuscripts --Specimens.
Illumination of books and manuscripts --15th century
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Books of Hours, or Horæ in Latin were often lavishly decorated books of prayers, rites for canonical hours of the day, and readings from the Bible developed during the 1300s and based on longer ecclesiastical texts of devotions performed during the eight canonical hours. They are usually small as to be portable, and mostly in Latin. They were produced in many diocese, often with the characteristics of that diocese’ liturgical style.
Marymount University's Gomatos Collection contains a single leaf of vellum from France, produced around 1460. The double-sided leaf is brightly colored in blues, greens, yellow, and red with gold illuminated lettering. The body of the text is ink brown ink and written in lettre batarde script. Lettre batarde was a common French script of the period, which is a combination of formal “black letter” and less formal cursive script. Decorations include a notable winged insect, perhaps a dragonfly, on the borders of each page as well as various plants and flowers. The text is from Psalms 23 and 24.
First line, side 1: Dominus regit me et ni\hil mihi deerit in loco\pakue ibi me collacavit
“The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not be in want.
Last line, side 2: Reminiscere miserationus\tuarum Domine et miseriuavm\tuarum quae a saeculo sunt.
“O Lord, remember your compassion and your mercies, which are from ages past”
Beal, Peter. "book of hours." A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology 1450–2000. : Oxford University Press, 2008. Oxford Reference. 2011. <http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199576128.001.0001/acref-9780199576128-e-0106>.
Barbour, Ruth, and others. “Calligraphy.” Encyclopedia Britannica. 10 Nov. 2017,
https://www.britannica.com/art/calligraphy/Latin-alphabet-handwriting#ref512983
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Psalms 23 and 24
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France
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1460
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Anaba, Phinehas
Burke, Meghan
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 Unsorted License.
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1 leaf : vellum
Colored illustrations
17 x 12 cm
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Latin
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Text
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https://catalog.wrlc.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=17692037
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Manuscript Leaves
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The Gomatos Collection has a small number of manuscript leaves dating from the 12th-15th centuries.
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Leaf from a Book of Hours
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Medieval Literature
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On the front page of this piece (two lines from the top starting with the enlarged B) is Luke chapter 1 lines 68-79. This is known as the Benedictus or Canticle of Zechariah. This is the prayer which Zachariah said when John the Baptist was born. It has been an important part of customary Christian worship services. This is followed by a section from the Doxologia Minor - Glory Be. This is a short prayer of praise to the Trinity.
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http://www.preces-latinae.org/thesaurus/Cantici/Benedictus.html
http://www.preces-latinae.org/thesaurus/Basics/GloriaPatri.html
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France , ca. 1460
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Sara Heflin & Johnny Vaccaro
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These pieces of parchment are excerpts from a French Book of Hours circa 1460. These books were often composed in Latin and were quite portable due to their small size. These books contained biblical prayers, texts, and psalms for devotion. The Latin text is in lettre batarde script. The ink is mainly brown with verse section-header backgrounds of dark red and dark blue with gold ink. There are margin illustrations on the left side of the front page and the right side of the back page. These illustrations include flowers, leaves, and various intricate details in what appears to be green, blue, light tan, brown, blue, and pink. Both the front and the back sections contain 20 lines each.
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Latin
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Bible Verse
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a Book of Hours
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Manuscript Leaves
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The Gomatos Collection has a small number of manuscript leaves dating from the 12th-15th centuries.
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MS 4, Golden Legend leaf
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Initially entitled Legenda sanctorum (Readings on the Saints), The Golden Legend was compiled about the year 1275 by Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa and a member of the Dominican Order. The Golden Legend was, perhaps, the most widely read book in the Middle Ages, after the Bible. A substantial portion of Jacobus' text was drawn from two collected lives of the saints, one is Abbreviatio in gestis et miraculis sanctorum (Summary of the Deeds and Miracles of the Saints) and the other is Epilogum in gesta sanctorum (Afterword on the Deeds of the Saints) both of which were written by Dominicans. The Golden Legend was written in Latin and is a compendium of saints’ lives and liturgical and doctrinal instruction. During the Middle Ages it was translated into nearly every language in Europe with seven French translations and two English translations. The Golden Legend has a prologue and over 180 chapters from “The Advent of the Lord” to “The Dedication of a Church.” The lives of saints constitute 153 chapters in The Golden Legend; the “non-hagiographic chapters,” i.e., the chapters not devoted to the lives of the saints, describe Church doctrine during the Middle Ages and were intended for instruction and teaching. Approximately 800 copies of the manuscript version are extant. The Golden Legend provides the reader with insight into the religious thought during the Middle Ages.
The Life of Saint Bartholomew, partially shown here, is the 123rd chapter of The Golden Legend. Being one of the Twelve Apostles, Bartholomew’s name appears in each of the three Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke) while the name “Nathanael” in the Gospel of John is believed, according to most biblical scholars, to refer to the same person. The saint is known for having traveled to India and Greater Armenia, where he exorcised demons from the daughter of King Polymios and eventually inspired the royal family and many of their subjects to be baptized into Christianity. Enraged by the mass conversion of the local people, the king’s brother ordered Bartholomew’s capture and execution. Like Peter, Bartholomew was crucified upside down, preaching the Gospel until his moment of death.
Further Reading:
de Voragine, Jacobus. The Golden Legend: Readings on the Saints. Translated by William Granger Ryan. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012.
OCA. “Apostle Bartholomew of the Twelve.” The Lives of the Saints. https://oca.org/saints/lives/2018/06/11/101690-apostle-bartholomew-of-the-twelve.
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Jacobus de Voragine
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The Golden Legend
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Italy
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13th century
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Davidson, Alec & Theberge, John
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1 leaf : parchment ; 17 x 34 cm
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Latin
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Hagiography
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Science and Experimentation
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Readers interested in the history of scientific thought and experiments meant to discover the elements and workings of the natural world will find an eclectic and interesting group of texts in the Gomatos Collection.
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New experiments on electricity
New experiments on electricity: wherein the causes of thunder and lightning as well as the constant state of positive or negative electricity in the air or clouds, are explained : with experiments on clouds of powders and vapours artificially diffused in the air : also a description of a doubler of electricity, and of the most sensible electrometer yet constructed : with other new experiments and discoveries in the science : illustrated by explanatory plates
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Atmospheric electricity --Early works to 1800.
Electricity --Early works to 1850.
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This original copy was printed in 1789, the very plain design of the cover of the book with the rough uneven edges of the pages give the book a very notebook or journal like feel rather than a professionally printed book. Also the handwritten annotations in the margins from the original owner of the book significantly add to the historic notebook feel of the book.
It was written by Rev. Abraham Bennet who was a clergyman and natural philosopher, a very rare and interesting combination of professions for the time period. It was this book that established Bennet’s “reputation for science amongst the philosophers of all countries”. New Experiments in Electricity was a summary of all of his electrical work and experiments at the time. Two of his most important inventions, the gold-leaf electroscope and the doubler of electricity are discussed in great detail in the book with pull out diagrams showing how they were constructed and how they function. The book goes on to discuss the details of Bennet’s various experiments and the results of each. His best known experiment is also recorded in this book, the use of his invention; the gold-leaf electroscope to develop the concept of what he called Adhesive electricity. It is this experiment that would go on to inspire Alessandro Volta and lead to his formation of the contact theory.
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Abraham Bennet
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Derby [England] : Printed by J. Drewry,
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1789
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Nathan Aultice
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Book
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English
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Document
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https://catalog.wrlc.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=3983803
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Title
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Children's Literature
Description
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The children's literature in the Gomatos Collection dates from the 19th and 20th centuries, and includes several editions of Lewis Carroll's Alice books, featured here.
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Title
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Kim
Subject
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Irish--India
Orphans
Lamas
Boys
India
Description
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Rudyard Kipling is one of the most celebrated English writers of his time. He wrote novels, short stories, poems, and journal articles. Born in India in 1895 during its time in the British Empire, Kipling travelled to England to be educated in a boarding school. During that time he developed a knack for writing that he further developed when he returned to India and worked as a journalist. He went on to write such celebrated novels as The Jungle Book and The Man Who Would Be King, as well as Kim. He received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1907 at the age of 42, making him the youngest to receive the prize, and the first writer to win writing in English. He died in 1936 in London, at the age of 70.
Kim by Rudyard Kipling is a novel about an orphan boy living in India under British occupation. The boy lives off begging for money as well as performing various tasks for others. During one of those tasks, the boy becomes friends with an old Lama from Tibet, and as a result joins the Lama on his quest. During the quest, Kim is recruited by a school where he learns the trade of espionage, all the while keeping in contact with the Lama. The story revolves around his adventures as a spy for the British.
The cover to Kim is green in color, with the letters colored in gold. The spine is the same forest green in color, with the words written in the same gold hue. The book opens to beautiful designs of elephants and symbols, which were actually illustrated by John Lockwood Kipling, Rudyard Kipling’s father. Each chapter has similar designs above the actual written words. John Lockwood Kipling also provides beautiful artwork of certain scenes in the novel. These pieces of art are grayish-green in color and are bordered by a flowery pattern in made with red and blue colors.
Creator
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Rudyard Kipling
Publisher
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Doubleday, Page, and Co.
Date
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1912
Contributor
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Kipling, Rudyard
Kipling, John Lockwood
Format
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355 p. book
Language
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English
Identifier
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https://catalog.wrlc.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=4106588
Type
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Fiction