Guide to Depositories of Manuscript Collections in Pennsylvania ...
Guide to Depositories of Manuscript Collections in Pennsylvania ...

Author: Historical Records Survey of Pennsylvania

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Published: 1939

Total Pages: 140

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"This volume represents a group of Pennsylvania institutions in whose libraries manuscripts are housed. It lists historical societies, public libraries, museums, and academic institutions, but is not intended to cover the vast number of manuscript collections in the archives of families and commercial enterprises, and in the hands of private collectors."--Pref.

A History of Illuminated Manuscripts
A History of Illuminated Manuscripts

Author: Christopher De Hamel

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 280

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"Illuminated manuscripts are perhaps the most beautiful treasures to survive from the middle ages. This authoritative volume provides a comprehensive introduction to the medieval world of books, their production and their consumption. The text divides this world into different groups of readers and writers: missionaries, emperors, monks, students, aristocrats, priests, collectors and the general public. De Hamel is both informative and immensely readable, and the sumptuous illustrations render this book too good to be missed."--From Amazon.com

Before the Melting Pot
Before the Melting Pot

Author: Joyce D. Goodfriend

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 1994-10-09

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9780691037875

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From its earliest days under English rule, New York City had an unusually diverse ethnic makeup, with substantial numbers of Dutch, English, Scottish, Irish, French, German, and Jewish immigrants, as well as a large African-American population. Joyce Goodfriend paints a vivid portrait of this society, exploring the meaning of ethnicity in early America and showing how colonial settlers of varying backgrounds worked out a basis for coexistence. She argues that, contrary to the prevalent notion of rapid Anglicization, ethnicity proved an enduring force in this small urban society well into the eighteenth century.