Collection Highlights
Journael Gehouden opt’ schip den gulden Bever en tschip den gulden Otter van de Manathans naer Patria Ende Wedrom naer de Manathans (Journal kept aboard the Ship the Golden Beaver and the Ship the Golden Otter from the Manhattans to Patria and the return)
Date:
October 1660- June 1663
Object Number:
MSS.Ships.Journals.1600
Medium:
Ink on paper
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Poems, Henricus Selyns
Object Number:
MSS.BV.Selyns
Date:
1659-1686
Medium:
Ink on paper
Description:
Undated manuscript volume of poems by Henricus Selyns (1636-1701), comprising approximately 200 epitaphs, and nuptial, birthday, and other congratulatory odes of a personal character and chiefly dedicated to the author's contemporaries in Holland, New York, and the West Indies. Most are in Dutch, but also included are several in Latin, and one in Greek.
Bibliography:
Krohn, Deborah, Peter Miller, and Marybeth De Filippis, eds., "Dutch New York Between East and West: The World of Margrieta van Varick." New York: Bard Graduate Center, New-York Historical Society, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009, p. 200
Credit Line:
New-York Historical Society Library
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