Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938
2. Freemasons. African Lodge No. 459 (Boston, Mass.)

Description

1. xvi pages; 18 cm

Donor/Sponsor

1. Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subject

1. African american clergy
2. African American freemasonry > Massachusetts
3. African American freemasons
4. Bookplates (Provenance)
5. Freemasons Sermons
6. Black author

Genre/Form

1. Bookplates (Provenance)

Call number

1. Sc Rare 252-M (Marrant, J. Sermon preached on the 24th day)

Note

1. "Edited by Arthur A. Schomburg, member American Negro Academy and associate editor of the Masonic Quarterly Review."--Preface, verso of upper wrapper.
2. In the preface, Schomburg states that "The pamphlet was printed at Boston in 1784 ... "; it was most likely printed in 1789. cf. English short title catalogue; Evans, C. American bibliography.
3. Originally published: Boston : Printed and sold at the Bible and Heart, [1789]
4. John Marrant was one of the first African-American ministers of the Gospel in North America.

Provenance (note)

1. With the bookplate: The Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, The New York Public Library Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Author

1. Marrant, John, 1755-1791, author.

Title

1. A sermon preached on the 24th day of June 1789 : being the festival of St. John the Baptist, at the request of the Right Worshipful the Grand Master Prince Hall, and the rest of the brethren of the African Lodge of the Honorable Society of the Free and Accepted Masons in Boston / by the Reverend brother Marrant, chaplain.

Publisher

1. [New York] : [publisher not identified], [192-?]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Provenance

1. Copy in Sc Rare 252-M (accession no. B526301) With the bookplate: The Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, The New York Public Library Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Local note

1. Copy in Sc Rare 252-M: disbound, rehoused with: Marrant, John. A sermon preached on the 24th day of June 1789 ... Boston : Printed and sold at the Bible and Heart, [1789]
2. Researchers are restricted to the microform copy in: Sc Micro R-3984.

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Occupation

1. African american clergy.

Local subject

1. Black author.

Added author

1. Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, editor.
2. Freemasons. African Lodge No. 459 (Boston, Mass.)
3. Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Other editions:

1. Reproduction of (manifestation): Marrant, John, 1775-1791. A sermon preached on the 24th day of June 1789. Boston : Printed and sold at the Bible and Heart., [1789] 24 pages ; 20 cm. (8vo) (OCoLC) 20384445

Research call number

1. Sc Rare 252-M (Marrant, J. Sermon preached on the 24th day)