The order for morning prayer in the college, academy, and charitable schools of the city of Philadelphia.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pennypacker, Samuel W. (Samuel Whitaker), 1843-1916, associated name, former owner.

College, Academy, and Charitable Schools of Philadelphia, other.

General Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.), associated name, former owner.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College, Academy, and Charitable Schools of Philadelphia.

Schools--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Liturgy--18th century.

Schools.

Religious education--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--18th century.

Religious education.

Genre:

Liturgical books.

Prayers.

Physical Description:

7, [1] pages ; 22 cm (4to)

Fingerprint:

e.wn r.ee r.ou d.l- (C) 1789 (Q)

Place of Publication:

[Philadelphia?] : [publisher not identified], [between 1789 and 1791]

Notes:

Caption title.

Terminus post quem for imprint date range inferred from prayer "to behold the President of these United States; and all others in authority, legislative, judicial and executive, throughout the same" on page 6. Terminus ante quem from date of merger between the University of the State of Pennsylvania and the College, Academy, and Charitable Schools of Philadelphia into the University of Pennsylvania.

Signatures: A-B².

Text begins: At the beginning of morning Prayers, the officiating professor shall read some one or more of the sentences of the Scriptures that follow; and then he shall say what is written after the said sentences.

Not in Evans.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center RBC 2026 110 acquired for the Penn Libraries with funds provided by Susan M. Todres on 25 April 2026 at auction from Addison and Sarova (lot 80). Library donor bookplate ("Class [blank] Book [blank] General Theological Seminary Library Chelsea Square, New York Presented by Soc'y for Promoting Religion and Learning"), with previous shelf-mark erased, on front pastedown; perforated stamp ("GEN. THEO. SEMINARY LIBRARY NEW YORK") of the same instituteion on leaves A1 and B2; book pocket with shelf-mark label and partially effaced stamp of the same institution affixed to back pastedown. Formerly owned by Samuel W. Pennypacker with manuscript note ("732 RNS") in pencil on verso of front free endpaper referring to entry for this copy in Davis & Harvey, The extraordinary library of the Hon. Samuel W. Pennypacker, Governor of Pennsylvania (1905). Manuscript note ("Unique, Not in Hildeburn") in pencil in the hand of A.S.W. Rosenbach on verso of front free endpaper. Another bookseller's manuscript note in pencil discussing the date of this copy on verso of front free endpaper. Bound in modern gold-ruled half green cloth over marbled paper boards; several blank leaves bound in at beginning and end of volume. Front free endpaper and three blank leaves detached and laid in.

Cited in:

English short title catalogue, W471061

OCLC:

20309898