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Title

Authors

• Davis, Alexander B

Other related names

• Kaplan, Arnold Harvey, 1939-, donor
• Kaplan, Deanne, donor

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9979352111303681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1422293462
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3154fc39

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

circa 1854-1861

Place

Kingston, Jamaica

Summary

An untitled and unsigned lecture on the third degree of Freemasonry (Master Mason), and the ceremony associated with raising a candidate to that degree. A reference to "the lectures upon the two previous degrees" (p. 4) suggests that this is one in a series. The lecture includes biblical citations and words written in Hebrew (for example, p. 3, 6-10). The lecture is written in a blank notebook with a detached front cover with the printed title At the Rev'd. A. B. Davis's Academy, Synagogue House, Kingston, Jamaica enclosed in a foliate oval topped by a rondel with an image of a globe, a compass, and pens in an inkwell, with books on either side. The back cover is missing. The notebook has 20 leaves and is paginated in ink by the author, 1-25, 28-40 (the missing numbers are a pagination error), beginning on the verso of the first leaf.

Notes

• An image of an identical Davis Academy notebook cover, described as a "front free endleaf," appears in Peter Lanchidi, “A Kabbalistic lithograph in Australia,” Australian Journal of Jewish Studies 34 (2021), 188-233, fig. 8.
   

Extent

Provenance

• Sold by Kestenbaum & Company (New York, N.Y.), 11 January 2024, lot 162
   
• Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2024 by Arnold and Deanne Kaplan (Kestenbaum & Co.) (Collectify no. 2024.01.26.00005; 13.2029).
   

Subjects topical

• Freemasons--Jamaica
• Jews--Jamaica--History
• Freemasonry--Rituals

Genres

• Lectures
• Notebooks
• Manuscripts, English--19th century

Licenses

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Table of contents

• Front cover — At the Rev'd. A. B. Davis's Academy, Synagogue House, Kingston, Jamaica