Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Prentis, William, -1824
2. Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History bookplate.

Description

1. 1 volume (unpaged) : tables; 18 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2021-2024).

Series statement

1. In his Works, C

Subject

1. Almanacs > Early works to 1800
2. Almanacs, American > Early works to 1800
3. Almanacs

Genre/Form

1. Inscriptions (Provenance)
2. Bookplates (Provenance)

Call number

1. Sc Rare 317-B (Banneker, B. Virginia almanack)

Indexed in (note)

1. New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall.

Additional formats (note)

1. Also available on microfilm, Schomburg Center's researchers restricted to the microform copy in Sc Micro R-803 [pt. 3].

Author

1. Banneker, Benjamin, 1731-1806, creator.

Title

1. The Virginia almanack, for the year of our Lord, 1794 : Being the second after leap year. And the eighteenth of American independence / calculated by the ingenious self taught astronomer, Benjamin Banneker, a black man.

Publisher

1. [Petersburg, Va.] : [Publisher not identified], [1794?]

Manufacturer

1. Petersburg : Printed by William Prentis, [179 4?]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. In his Works, C

Indexed in:

1. New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall., v. 1, page 740, column 2, row 1

Additional formats

1. Also available on microfilm, Schomburg Center's researchers restricted to the microform copy in Sc Micro R-803 [pt. 3].

Local note

1. The Schomburg Center's Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Book Division's copy is one of the items acquired or added to the Schomburg collection (July 19, 1937 -- G.K. Halls) during Catherine A. Latimer & Arthur A. Schomburg's times as collection librarian & curator. Imperfect: disbound, lacks the NYPL's bookplate of "Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection," that's associated with books from that period, treated, each leaf encapsulated or reinforced with Japanese tissue paper, rebound in blue cloth over boards library binding, and gilt spine. It includes an NYPL's 1940's onward bookplate of: "The Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History"; and inscribed in inks on the cover, and manuscript notations on the pages for February, March, June, November, and December, & also a page of additional manuscript notation page between June and July which contains a medicinal instruction "giving by the Rev. [Wm.?] [Prichett?] July 17th, [17]94."

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Local subject

1. Black author.

Place of publication

1. United States Virginia Petersburg.

Added author

1. Prentis, William, -1824, printer.
2. Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History bookplate.
3. Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, Curator.

Research call number

1. Sc Rare 317-B (Banneker, B. Virginia almanack)