Franklin

[Lecture notes].

Author/Creator:
Miller, Samuel, 1769-1850.
Publication:
Philadelphia, 1788-1793.
Format/Description:
Manuscript
85 leaves : paper ; 323 x 186 mm bound to 331 x 208 mm
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Subjects:
Ethics.
Logic.
Rhetoric.
Spherical trigonometry.
Books and reading -- History -- 18th century.
Books and reading.
History.
Form/Genre:
Codices.
Lecture notes.
Book catalogs.
Manuscripts, American.
Biography/History:
Student at the University of the State of Pennsylvania, A.B. 1789; Presbyterian clergyman and professor at Princeton Theological Seminary.
Summary:
Notes taken by student Samuel Miller from lectures at the university and from printed sources. Sources include lectures by Samuel Magaw on moral philosophy and Robert Patterson on spherical trigonometry; Isaac Watts's Logick; and Hugh Blair's Lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres. At the end of the volume is a list of books, perhaps of Miller's own library; folio and quarto titles are listed, and the following page where the octavo titles would have been has been cut out. The titles are mostly for religious reference and devotional works. The final note is of a sum received from the Session to distribute to the poor, dated 23 December 1793 and noted as distributed.
Contents:
1. p.i-ii, 1-34: Notes from a course of lectures on logick and moral philosophy / Samuel Magaw.
2. p.57-77: A compendious system of logick, being an abridgement / Isaac Watts.
3. p.79-89: Excerpts from Blair's Lectures on rhetoric / Hugh Blair.
4. p.91-117: Spherical trigonometry / [Robert Patterson?].
5. p.119-166: To find the latitude & longitude at sea / Robert Patterson.
6. p.168: Catalogue of the books.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Pagination: Paper, ii (modern paper) + 170 + ii (modern paper); 1-34, 59-77, 79-89, 91-113, 121-166; pagination is contemporary with text and only appears in the sections of notes, which have unnumbered pages between them, including some title pages and indexing.
Script: Written in a cursive script.
Decoration: Numerous diagrams in the sections on spherical trigonometry and latitude and longitude.
Binding: Late 19th- or early 20th-century quarter leather; both covers are detached.
Origin: Written in Philadelphia from 1788 (p. i) to 1793 (p. 169).
Penn Provenance:
Gift of Ernest Hare Miller, 1915.
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 1034.
Contributor:
Magaw, Samuel, 1735-1812.
Patterson, Robert, 1743-1824.
University of the State of Pennsylvania.
Contains:
Blair, Hugh, 1718-1800. Lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres.
Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748. Logick.
OCLC:
155928891
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