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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Codex 1626
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Frederick, 1773-1830.
- Language:
- English
- German
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Speeches, addresses, etc., English.
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- commonplace books
- excerpts
- orations
- sermons
- Manuscripts, American.
- Manuscripts, English.
- Penn Provenance:
- Possible former ownership inscriptions: Frederick L. Smith (f. 84v), Henry A. Smith (inside lower cover).
- Purchased, 1968.
- Physical Description:
- 84 leaves : paper ; 160 x 100 mm bound to 164 x 104 mm
- Place of Publication:
- [Philadelphia?], [1792-1818?]
- Language Note:
- English, with 2 sections in German (f. 41r-49r, 78r-81r) and a few words of Latin (f. 12r).
- Biography/History:
- Student at the University of Pennsylvania (A.B., 1792); attorney general of Pennsylvania, 1823-1828; judge of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, 1828-1830.
- Summary:
- Excerpts from orations, sermons, and other prose works of the 18th century and early 19th century, with a focus on political rhetoric. The first item is an oration, On the rise and progress of American independence, which has an explanatory note about intended use at commencement at the University of Pennsylvania. Other authors represented include William Pitt, Charles James Fox, and Richard Brinsley Sheridan, all members of the British Parliament; and ministers John Daniel Gros and Samuel Stanhope Smith. A statement by Governor John Jordan Crittenden of Kentucky in 1850 (f. 52r-53r) and the last words of President Zachary Taylor (f. 81r), who died in 1850, may have been added by another hand.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (front flyleaf).
- Foliation: Paper, i + 84; [i, 1-84] (f. 4r-10v, 54v-75r blank), modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Multiple leaves cut out after f. 76.
- Script: Written in cursive script.
- Binding: Quarter leather over very worn marbled paper; Frederick Smith and a circle in wedges in ink on lower cover.
- Origin: Written in Philadelphia, ca. 1792-1818, with later additions ca. 1850.
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 1626
- OCLC:
- 806318025
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