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Benjamin Kennicott Collection

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This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.

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Call Number:
C0852
Repository:
Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division
Extent:
  • 1 box
  • 0.5 linear feet
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Benjamin Kennicott Collection, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
Date:
circa 1762 (inclusive)
Creator:
Kennicott, Benjamin, 1718-1783.
Form:
Commonplace books -- 18th century. and Sermons, English -- 18th century.
Abstract:
Benjamin Kennicott was a biblical scholar who specialized in the collation, translation, and publication of Hebrew texts. He held positions as Vicar of Culham (1753-1783) and Radcliffe librarian at Oxford (1767-1783). Collection consists of selected manuscripts by or related to Kennicott.

Kennicott, Benjamin, 1718-1783.

Benjamin Kennicott was born at Totnes in Devon, England, and became a biblical scholar who specialized in the collation, translation, and publication of Hebrew texts. He held positions as Vicar of Culham (1753-1783) and Radcliffe librarian at Oxford (1767-1783).

Consists of selected manuscripts by or related to Kennicott. Included are three original, undated manuscripts--two sermons and a poem entitled "A Poem on Christmas Day"--and a commonplace book kept by John Cooke (b. 1742), also of Totnes (lass of 1760, Christ Church, Oxford), which contains copies of eleven poems by Kennicott, most of which are unpublished. Some of the poems concern people or events in Totnes, and one is a humorous parody of Hamlet's soliloquy "To be or not to be."

Purchased from Julian Browning in 1998.

This collection was processed in 2000. Finding aid written in 2000.

No appraisal information is available.

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Publisher
Manuscripts Division
Finding Aid Date
2000
Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research use.

Use Restrictions

Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.

Collection Inventory

Scope and Contents

Inscribed by, and with bookplate of John Cooke, born 1742 in Totnes, Devon, class of 1760, Christ Church, Oxford, B.A. 1764, M.A. 1767. Also bears the signature of Edward Windeatt of Totnes who supplied information for the Kennicott Dictionary of National Biography entry. Contains copies of eleven poems by Benjamin Kennicott, 82 pp.;

Physical Description

1 box

"A Poem on the Usefulness of Natural Philosophy", dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"A Poem on the Usefulness of Mathematical Literature", dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"A Poem on the Recovery of the Honble. Mrs. Courtenay, From her late Dangerous Illness humbly inscrib'd to Kellond Courtenay of Painsford, Esq. & his Lady", dates not examined. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

(Written in the year 1743 by Benj. Kennicott, afterward Dr. Kennicott)

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1 folder

"A Pastoral, Thyrsis, Strephon, Daphnis", dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Verses: To Myra, being Presented with Pamela", dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"The Greyhound, a Fable", dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"An Ode, In the manner of Collin's Ode to Evening", dates not examined. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

(An Ode in Memory of Miss Betsy Payne of Totnes, Devon)

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1 folder

"Bidwell, An Epistolary Poem to Mr. Richard Hicks, by Benj. Kennicott", dates not examined. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

(A Poem on Bidwell, a Bower near Totnes)

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1 folder

"Nundinum Totonense", dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Disciplina Academica", dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"A Parody on ye Celebrated Soliloquy in Hamlet", dates not examined. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

(A Parody on "To be or not to be" in Hamlet)

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1 folder

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1 box

"30th of January, The guilt of blood...," AMsS, 4 pp., dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"On the disadvantage of riches," AMsS (initialed), 2 pp., dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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1 box

"A Poem on Christmas Day," AMs, 4 pp., dates not examined. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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