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English legal documents collection, 1592-1810 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box
Abstract:: This collection contains 52 assorted English legal documents. Most are brief transactional records attesting to land sales, contracts, or estate settlements. Though mostly unrelated, there are a few small groups of connected documents, such as the five certificates of payment by Captain Roger Martin to various parties executed during December 1685. Beyond these transactional documents are a 1679 record of arguments before the Privy Council as well as a 1770 warrant for the arrest of Nicholas Gwyn, an Ipswich medical doctor.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]

Daniel G. Brinton collection on Spain and New Spain, 1582-1854 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1.4 linear feet (4 boxes)
Abstract:: Daniel Garrison Brinton (1837-1899) was a Philadelphia surgeon and anthropologist who created, collected, and donated collections of books and manuscripts related to anthropology, colonization of the Americas, and native American linguistics. This collection on Spain and New Spain documents, to a limited degree, Spain's relationships with its colonies and other European powers while struggling to maintain its empire.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]

Hacienda San Diego (Mexico) Records, 1634-1902 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.4 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of two volumes of certified copies of land titles and estate records of the estate known as Hacienda San Diego, situated in the Armadillo Valley of the northern state of San Luis Potosí (Mexico), a silver mining region, covering the period from its origin, in a 1634 grant from Viceroy Pacheco y Osorio to Diego del Castillo, to 1902, when John A. Wright bought the estate on behalf of George W. Brackenridge, a prominent citizen of San Antonio, Texas.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

New Series of Islamic Manuscripts, 1300-1920 (inclusive)

Extent:: 2400 items and 195 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of approximately 5000 texts in 2194 volumes.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

Charles H. McIlwaine Papers, 1707-1946 (inclusive) 1894-1946 (bulk)

Extent:: 5 boxes
Abstract:: Author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book The American Revolution (1923), Charles H. McIlwaine (Princeton Class of 1894) was a professor of history and government at both Princeton (1905-1910) and Harvard University (1926-1946). His papers include notes, lectures, and other miscellaneous personal papers.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

Delaware Boundary Case Collection, 1664-1932 (inclusive)

Extent:: 7 boxes and 5.9 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of photostats of documents collected by assistant New Jersey attorney general Duane E. Minard regarding a state boundary case argued before the U.S. Supreme Court, October term, 1929, in which New Jersey was the plaintiff and Delaware the defendant.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

Princeton Collection of Ethiopic Magic Scrolls, 1700-1900 (inclusive)

Extent:: 2 boxes and 207 items
Abstract:: Consists of an open collection of Ethiopic magic scrolls.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

Stewart M. Robinson Collection of Colonial Sermons, 1615-1960 (inclusive) 1745-1785 (bulk)

Extent:: 42 boxes and 16.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of a collection compiled by American clergyman Stewart M. Robinson (Princeton Class of 1915), including photostats of sermons, letters, pamphlets, and communications to newspapers by clergymen in colonial America, which he used as research material for a proposed book entitled "The Political Thought of the Colonial Clergy."

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

Francis C. Brown Collection of French Royal Marriage Contracts, 1607-1846 (inclusive)

Extent:: 33 volumes and 2.7 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of 32 bound volumes, each containing an original, French, royal marriage contract with supplementary biographical sketches and portraits of the witnesses who signed the contracts, collected by Francis C. Brown (Princeton Class of 1958). The first two volumes are alphabetical catalogues of the marriage contracts

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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