1832 Handwritten Manuscript Lectures James Luce Kingsley Yale Divinity, Iliad
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Antique original 187 year old handwritten manuscript journal penned by a one Oliver Baker as a student at Yale University Divinity School in the early 1830s. This fascinating piece of history contains a Translation Of The Iliad followed by lectures and sermons given by esteemed Professor James Luce Kingsley. (Bio below). The first 4 pp. of the manuscript contain a very detailed translation of the Iliad by Homer. The text is so small and the pages so large th...at each single page is equivalent to 2 or 3 pages in a smaller journal. The next 6 pp. contain detailed lecture notes from Professor James Luce Kingsley. Next, there are 6 pages listing Authors of the Articles in the Christian Spectator Vol 1 1829. Finally, the remaining 77 pp. are blank. There also is a loosely inserted period Map of Gallia that is dated 1816.
The manuscript comes from a collection of 4 total journals penned by Oliver Baker while a student at the Divinity School. All 4 journals contain lectures and sermons from infamous and historically important professors from the school and offer us a first hand look at what was being taught in the early Divinity School at this time. Please visit our eBay store to view the other 3 journals from Yale and please check later today to see 61 Harvard Unirsity journals from the 1880s listed together as one listing!
In Very Good overall condition. Boasts original Yale blue marbled soft cover wraps and string binding. Binding is strong and tight and all pages are firmly secure. The text block is in a Excellent condition with clean, crisp, white pages throughout and clean and legible period ink.
James Luce Kingsley (August 28, 1778 – August 31, 1852) was an American classical and biblical scholar.
Born in Windham, Connecticut, Kingsley was educated at Williams and Yale, where he was graduated in 1799. He afterward taught for two years, first in Wethersfield, Connecticut and then in Windham, and in 1801 became a tutor at Yale. In 1805 he was appointed to the newly established professorship of Hebrew, Greek, and Latin in there. Kingsley was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1825.[1] He was relieved of a part of his duties in 1831, when a separate professorship of Greek was established, and of another part in 1835, when a professorship of sacred literature was founded, but he continued to instruct in Latin until he resigned in 1851. Kingsley died in New Haven, Connecticut.WorkEditAs a writer of English, Yale president Timothy Dwight called him the “American Addison”; and Yale president Woolsey said of him, “I doubt if any American scholar has ever surpassed him in Latin style.” He published a discourse on the 200th anniversary of the founding of New Haven, April 25, 1838; editions of Tacitus (Philadelphia), and Cicero, De Oratore (New York); and was the author of a history of Yale college in the American Quarterly Register (1835); a life of Ezra Stiles, president of Yale college, in Sparks's series “American Biography.”
Measures 9 3/4” x 8 1/4” x 1/4” thick. Contains 15 pp. of Manuscript. 92 total pp.
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The manuscript comes from a collection of 4 total journals penned by Oliver Baker while a student at the Divinity School. All 4 journals contain lectures and sermons from infamous and historically important professors from the school and offer us a first hand look at what was being taught in the early Divinity School at this time. Please visit our eBay store to view the other 3 journals from Yale and please check later today to see 61 Harvard Unirsity journals from the 1880s listed together as one listing!
In Very Good overall condition. Boasts original Yale blue marbled soft cover wraps and string binding. Binding is strong and tight and all pages are firmly secure. The text block is in a Excellent condition with clean, crisp, white pages throughout and clean and legible period ink.
James Luce Kingsley (August 28, 1778 – August 31, 1852) was an American classical and biblical scholar.
Born in Windham, Connecticut, Kingsley was educated at Williams and Yale, where he was graduated in 1799. He afterward taught for two years, first in Wethersfield, Connecticut and then in Windham, and in 1801 became a tutor at Yale. In 1805 he was appointed to the newly established professorship of Hebrew, Greek, and Latin in there. Kingsley was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1825.[1] He was relieved of a part of his duties in 1831, when a separate professorship of Greek was established, and of another part in 1835, when a professorship of sacred literature was founded, but he continued to instruct in Latin until he resigned in 1851. Kingsley died in New Haven, Connecticut.WorkEditAs a writer of English, Yale president Timothy Dwight called him the “American Addison”; and Yale president Woolsey said of him, “I doubt if any American scholar has ever surpassed him in Latin style.” He published a discourse on the 200th anniversary of the founding of New Haven, April 25, 1838; editions of Tacitus (Philadelphia), and Cicero, De Oratore (New York); and was the author of a history of Yale college in the American Quarterly Register (1835); a life of Ezra Stiles, president of Yale college, in Sparks's series “American Biography.”
Measures 9 3/4” x 8 1/4” x 1/4” thick. Contains 15 pp. of Manuscript. 92 total pp.
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