https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=42&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Displayed+as+.jpg&sort_field=Dublin+Core%2CCreator&page=1&output=atom2024-03-28T07:56:54-04:00Omekahttps://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/380Booklet describing how Southern Methodist University (SMU) became the first major southern institution to desegregate voluntarily.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:05-05:00
Merrimon Cuninggim, Perkins Led the Way: The Story of Desegregation at Southern Methodist University, Dallas: Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, 1994.
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/2425This hymn, with its beautiful woodcut engraving of Saint Philip of Jesus to whom it is dedicated, describes the fate of the Mexican-born member of the Franciscan order who was martyred in Japan in 1597. St. Philip is known as the patron saint of Mexico City.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:36-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/123A translation of The Brazen Serpent into Urdu, here identified as Hindustani, which is widely used in Pakistan and northern India. This was the sixth religious text translated into Hindustani at the time. "The Brazen Serpent" was the title for multiple religious tracts and was a popular theme in religious teachings.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:01-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/287First edition of the Imitatio Christi. The Imitatio Christi is the classic expression of the Devotio Moderna, or "modern devotion," a movement that responded to the widespread need for deepened spiritual life in the years before the Reformation. It consists of four Books: the first two counsel the reader on the spiritual life; the third deals with the inward consolation of the soul; and the fourth concerns the virtues of Communion.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:04-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/471The text of the Psalms, printed in large letters, is surrounded with commentary by David ben Joseph Ḳimḥi (c. 1160-c. 1235) in smaller types. A Christian censor used ink and small sheets of paper to omit words from commentary and entire passages.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:08-05:00
07017, Sefer Tehilim [Book of Psalms]. Commentary by David ben Joseph Ḳimḥi, edited by Jacob Baruch ben Judah Landau. Naples: Joseph ben Jacob Gunzenhauser, 4 Nisan 5247 (28 March 1487).
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1678Devotional object that consists of a printed hinged box filled with 147 small rolled slips of paper bearing printed texts for Christian meditation. Each slip in Promise, Prayer, Poetry provides three quotations. The first is always a Bible verse. The second quotation, printed in italics, is frequently a Psalm. The third text quotes a verse from a nineteenth-century English hymn, the title of which is not provided.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:25-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/2429Pamphlet of a novena for the faithful to complete the prayers in exchange for an indulgence. On the final page, bishop José María de Jesús Belaunzarán concedes 200 days of indulgence for every word contained in this novena to those who read it faithfully.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:36-05:00
Novena del santísimo sacramento, donde el devoto de tan admirable misterio hallará motivos eficaces para amarlo, y especiales obsequios para servirlo. México: Impr. de Luís Abadiano y Valdés, 1845. (Pamphlet [2], 36 p., [2], 15cm x 10cm)
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/469Commentary on the Passover Haggadah written in Italy and it was first published at Constantinople in 1506. This copy was expurgated and signed by two 17th century censors.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:08-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1902Rabbi Abravenel's commentary on the Hebrew Haggadah was written in Italy. Venetian law did not permit Jews to own or operate printing presses so this second edition was printed by a Christian printer. The final leaf, dated 1617, has the signatures of two censors, Clemente Renatto and Giovanni Domenico Carretto. In Psalm 115's commentary, the censors' ink deletions have corroded the paper, creating a large loss.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:28-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1594This brief devotional text in Spanish, intended to focus meditation on the sufferings of Christ and the sorrows of the Virgin Mary, was approved by Mexico City's Franciscan Order for publication at the Hogal press. Although the text had appeared in at least four previous editions, the book was censored by the Holy Office of the Inquisition at a later date.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:23-05:00
BRB0893. Juan de Abreu (fl. 1716–1738). Desagravios dolorosos de María por los agravios ignominiosos de Christo. Mexico: Widow of Don José Bernardo de Hogal, 1745.
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1603A heroic poem on the theme of the biblical King David. Dedicated to Maria Maddalena de' Medici, the Archduchess of Austria and Grand Duchess of Tuscany, the poem also included flattering allusions to contemporary Florentine nobles.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:23-05:00
Prothro B-466. [English Bible]. The Illuminated Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1846. From the Elizabeth Perkins Prothro collection.
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/605One of 40 printed copies. This printing of the Song of Songs features decorative typeface along with illumination.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:10-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1577In 1901, Charles H. St. John Hornsby hired Florence Kingsford to illuminate 44 copies of the Ashendene Press edition of the Song of Songs, each with a different design. Bridwell Library's copy of the Ashendene Song of Songs, illuminated by Florence Kingsford and bound by Katharine Adams, was the publisher Hornby's personal copy.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:23-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/539History of the Trinity United Methodist Church in El Paso, TX. Kate Warnick Local Church History Award winner-Large Church Division, 1976–1977.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:09-05:00
287.6764 E48T A. Methodism Comes to the Pass: A History of Trinity United Methodist Church of El Paso. El Paso, Texas: Guynes Print. Co., 1975. (Conference: New Mexico)
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/941Letter from Jane Addams to John Vincent for his 70th birthday congratulating him on the founding of Chautauqua and his impact on others.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:14-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/2162A French style binding with laced-on boards. The top edge is graphite with hand sewn silk endbands, covered in "coke" gray buffalo leather with onlays of emery paper and aluminum screen. The book would be housed in a matching leather clamshell box. The aluminum screen representing the source of the disappearance is depicted on the back board, dwindling around to the front board. "Goodbye" tooled on the spine, too late to save the river. The design is as "simple" as the age old problem of balancing contemporary needs for dwindling natural resources and preserving those resources for future generations.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:33-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/989Vernacular German fables by Johannes Mathesius, Nathan Chytraeus, and Martin Luther.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:15-05:00
BRB1526. (Hundert Fabeln mehrtheils auss Esopo [= Aesopus] etliche von D. Mart. Luth(er) und herrn (Johann) Mathesio, etliche von Nathan Chytreo [= Chytraeo] und ander verteutschet ... das Leben Esopi von Erasmo Albero beschreiben, sampt einer schönen Vorrede D. Luth... Frankfurt: Johann Feyerabend, 1584.
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1452In this history of the South Central Jurisdiction, Agnew and Severe, with the help of Bishop Hardt, chronicle the first forty years of the United Methodist Church (1968–2008).]]>2022-11-26T12:54:21-05:00
BY 1720 .A36 2012. Theodore L. Agnew and David L. Severe. 40: The History of the South Central Jurisdiction, 1968–2008. Oklahoma City: South Central Jurisdiction, 2012.
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1453In this history of the South Central Jurisdiction, Agnew recounts the Methodist Church years (1939–1968) and the first quadrennium of the United Methodist Church (1968–1972). ]]>2022-11-26T12:54:21-05:00
BX8382.2.A42 S682 1973. Theodore L. Agnew. The South Central Jurisdiction, 1939-1972: A Brief History and an Interpretation. Oklahoma City: Commission on Archives and History, South Central Jurisdiction, United Methodist Church, 1973.
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/453One of the earliest Lutheran catechisms, this is the first edition of this catechism for girls. Has a woodprint of the crucifixion.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:07-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/988One of the earliest Lutheran catechisms, this is the first edition of this catechism for girls. Has a woodprint of the crucifixion.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:15-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1216One of the earliest Lutheran catechisms, this is the first edition of this catechism for girls. Has a woodprint of the crucifixion.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:19-05:00