Collections taggedReligion

Luke Wadding Papers
This project draws from a digital facsimile of UCD-OFM, MSS. D.01 <https://digital.ucd.ie/view/ivrla:18726>. It represents selections from the first five volumes of Luke Waddings Papers. This amounts to 1,080 pages which have been disbound, cleaned and strengthened by professional conservator...

Loreto 1916
The Institute of the Blessed Virgin was founded by Mary Ward in 1609. It is a religious institute of pontifical right dedicated to apostolic works’, living according to the Ignatian tradition [IBVM Constitutions 2009, Volume II: Chapter I; 1.1]. Mary Ward’s idea of religious life was based on...

The Collected Letters of Nano Nagle
A collection of the surviving letters of Honora (Nano) Nagle (1718-1784), foundress of the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (PBVM). Nano Nagle brought the Ursuline congregation to Ireland, before founding the Presentations. This collection represents a digital reunification...

Leonidas Polk Family Papers
Leonidas Polk, first Bishop of Louisiana, founded the University of the South. Born to a wealthy planter family in North Carolina, Polk first attended West Point, but turned his attention toward the episcopacy. In the immediate antebellum period the Episcopal church spread south and west,...

Codex Marchalianus
Cozza-Luzi / Ceriani, Prophetarum codex graecus Vaticanus 2125 phototypice editus (Cozza-Luzi, Giuseppe (Iosephus) / Ceriani, A. - 1890)

The Case of Magdalena, the Former Slave
Archives Départementales des Bouches-du-Rhône 3B 858, and the opening folio is 178r. Marseille, 1407.

Ahavat David
This universalistic and rationalistic turn in Fleckeles’s thinking may be attributed in part to a reaction against the havoc wreaked by the public ascendancy in the mid-eighteenth century of the Kabbalah and its related movements—Hasidism and, more relevantly in the Bohemian milieu,...

Cartas dos mercedários do Pará
Coleção de documentos de fonte primária, cartas, atas, capítulos, requerimentos, entre outros documentos produzidos pelo Convento das Mercês do Pará durante o tempo que estiveram ali (1639-1794)

Mutual Improvement Association Minutes
The Mutual Improvement Association is a women's organization founded in Sandy Spring, Maryland in 1857 and is among the oldest, continually meeting groups of its kind in the United States. The original group was comprised of Quakers and thus meetings are modeled, in part, on a Quaker Meeting...

Life and Death in Florence
Biographical details, including date of birth and of entry to the convent, names of parents, and date of death. The second of two volumes, the first probably lost or stolen as a result of political turmoil.

Mother Agnes Hazotte Correspondence
Correspondence written to and from Mother Agnes Hazotte during her tenure as Mother Superior of the Congregation of Sisters of St. Agnes, 1864-1905.

Public Universal Friend Collection
Papers of the Public Universal Friend (born Jemima Wilkinson), 1752-1819. American sect founder and leader. Collection contains the Friend's writings, as well as letters to and from the Friend from followers (Universal Friends). Collection at Yates County History Center, Penn Yan, New York.

Dispatches from China: Letters and Diaries of Stuart & Hummel families
These diaries and letters document the Stuart and Hummel families' life and work in China as Methodist missionaries in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. There are travel diaries of Mildred Hummel (China, Europe, Egypt, and America). There are also diaries and notebooks of Arthur...

Brigham Young Probate Case File
The first governor of the Utah Territory and president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon) died August 29, 1877. At the time, the church practiced an arrangement wherein the president held property and real estate as "trustee-in-trust." This allowed Young to direct and...

Le Pelerinage de Damoiselle Sapience
https://www.arlima.net/mp/pelerinage_de_damoiselle_sapience.html From UPenn MS 660, ff. 86r-95v, uploaded for the Schoenberg Conference, November 2020

Guillaume le Clerc de Normandie’s Bestiary
During the 2021 IUB Transcribathon (April 15-17, 2021), five teams will collaborate to transcribe a copy of Guillaume le Clerc de Normandie's early thirteenth-century Bestiary, which details the appearance and habits of a series of real and fantastical creatures, as well as moral lessons they...

Crusading Books
Texts related to books that went on crusade go here -- it begins with the Inventory of Count Eudes of Nevers, and may expand from there.

Life as a Quaker Family: The Brookes
Welcome! Introduction to the Brooke Family The Brooke Family were landowners and members of the Quaker community in Sandy Spring, Maryland. Their family was made up of Robert (father), Mary (mother), and their ten children. When they first...

Letters of Rev. John W. Alvord
This collection contains the private letters written by the Rev. John W. Alvord, a Civil War Army Chaplain and Freedmen's Bureau Superintendent of Schools and Finance. Rev. Alvord was a significant historical figure best known for his Letters from the South, Relating to the Condition of...

Bishop Hellmuth Library Catalogue
This is a hand written list of titles contained in Bishop Hellmuth's (1817-1901) personal library. It was purchased by Barnett in 1895, at the sale of the Bishop's library, as stated in Barnett's inscription in the book. Bishop Isaac Hellmuth was the Founder of Huron College, Hellmuth Boys'...

Pacific Grove Retreat Association
The Pacific Grove Retreat Association Minute Book documents the founding meetings, beginning July, 1875, of the Methodist Ministers and prominent lay persons who met at San Francisco’s Howard Avenue Methodist Church to form a coastal Retreat Association known today as Pacific Grove, California. ...

Arabic Transcription, Macalester Library Session
This library session will give students an opportunity to work with Islamic manuscript materials and contribute to making these collection materials more accessible through the practice of transcription. By transcribing these primary sources, students will be helping the library increase...

A Digital Repatriation of a Lost archive of the Spanish Pacific: The Library of The Convent of San Pablo (Manila, 1762)
Important note: Unless otherwise indicated, the hard-copies of the manuscripts in this collection are housed at the LILLY LIBRARY at Indiana University. If you are using any of the documents, please reference them appropriately. Description: This project seeks to repatriate books and...

The Edward Mitchell Papers
The work on this collection is complete. Thank you! You can now view all of the documents and transcriptions of The Edward Mitchell Collection on the Dartmouth Libraries website, as well as read about the Edward Mitchell 200th anniversary celebration of being admitted into Dartmouth. Edward...

Saint Dunstan
This is the inaugural event of the Transcription Challenge Framework, led by Tristan B. Taylor. See below for copy-paste special characters.

Indigenous Episteme
The purpose of this project is to carry out research focused on the ethnohistory of the religions of the Coahuilteco-speaking indigenous people who lived in southeastern Texas and northeastern Mexico, in the current Mexican states of Coahuila and Nuevo León, during the colonial period (18th...

Sounding Spirit Hymnody Index
The Sounding Spirit Hymnody Index (SSHI) will provide a single point of access to hundreds of thousands of hymn settings in over 1,300 significant books of vernacular sacred music from the southern United States published between 1850 and 1925.

Papal Bull (16 July 1182)
i) Pope Lucius III ii) The Prior of Dudley Granting ii) the church of St James of Dudley and the chapel of St Edmund; church of Northfield; chapel at Coston Haskel, Ingle, Bradfield with chapel of Inglefield, gift of Gervase Paganell; the church of Wombourne with chapel of Tresel, gift of...

David Kimball Diary, 1803-1804
A journal kept by noted Ipswich, Massachusetts minister David T. Kimball during his final year of studies at Harvard University and Harvard Divinity School, and a year of teaching at Phillips Academy when he studied divinity under the Rev. Jonathan French. Rev. David Tenney Kimball...

Spring 2021 Letters from Telecommuting
These letters were worked on by students workers over the Covid-19 lockdown. They need to be updated and submitted.

Colonial North America: Tozzer Library
Colonial North America at Harvard Library provides access to remarkable and wide-ranging materials digitized as part of an ongoing, multi-year project. When complete, the project will make available to the world approximately 650,000 digitized pages of all known archival and manuscript materials...

Mauritius BM Project
The Bois Marchand Cemetery was established in 1867, due to the malaria epidemic. The land was donated by the Marchand family. The Archive consists of Burial Registers (BR) and Graves Purchased Books (GPB), in the form of bound printed forms. They were written in English and on a daily basis from...

Sabato Morais Collection
Sabato Morais (Hebrew: שבתאי מוראיס; April 13, 1823 – November 11, 1897) was an Italian-American rabbi of Portuguese descent, leader of Mikveh Israel Synagogue in Philadelphia, pioneer of Italian Jewish Studies in America, and founder of the Jewish Theological Seminary, which initially acted as...

John D. Lee Case File
Collection Status: Transcription Complete Explore the Subjects tab to see all the names and places getting linked from within documents. About the Collection Case files document criminal cases as they proceed through the court system and subsequently become the official files of individual...

Wake Forest Archives
Transcription projects from the Wake Forest University Archives. Current document sets include: Early Wake Forest History and North Carolina Baptist Church Records.

St. Paul Catholic Church Baptismal Ledger 1854-1909
St. Paul Catholic Church is one of the oldest existing churches in Lexington. The records for the parish go back to 1854. The ledgers are part of the church's historical archive, and contain unique records for Lexington's history. Bishop Stowe, the bishop of the Lexington diocese, has given...

B'nai Israel Archives
Congregation B'nai Israel is launching a project to transcribe our historic Minute Books from cursive writing into typed text.

Fanny Trundle diary
The diary is a two part, hand-written collection of Fanny Trundle's writings. The first part is devoted to a commentary on various historical figures and documents and reflects Fanny Trundle’s strong religious and temperance beliefs. The second part is an incomplete diary, starting on page 198,...

Mary Magruder Collection
This collection includes documents from Sandy Spring resident Mary Magruder. Born in Brookeville in 1865, Mary would spend the entire 80 years of her life as an active member of the Sandy Spring community. First serving as a teacher, she would later become the county’s first school attendance...

Father William T. Punch Letter Collection
Letters from and/or about Father William T. Punch and the Punch family. Donated by a Lexington resident to Lexington Public Library.

St. Paul Catholic Church Baptismal Ledger 1907-1925
St. Paul Catholic Church is one of the oldest existing churches in Lexington. The records for the parish go back to 1854. The ledgers are part of the church's historical archive, and contain unique records for Lexington's history. Bishop Stowe, the bishop of the Lexington diocese, has given...

elder
Sermon-heads 1767-1791 of The Rev’d Mr. John Elder (1706-1792) Pastor of Paxton and Derry Churches Abbreviates sometimes Paxton with P, and Derry with D

Talmud Torah of Minneapolis records
These registration ledgers come from Talmud Torah in Minneapolis. Talmud Torah acted as the religious school in the Jewish community, teaching young students Hebrew and about their religious heritage and customs. Located in the North Side neighborhood of Minneapolis, where many Jewish families...

Mary Bosanquet Fletcher Letters
These letters are handwritten by Mary Bosanquet Fletcher (1739-1815) and addressed to unknown acquaintances.

Abbot Family Papers
Mostly correspondence of members of the Abbot family, who attended Phillips Academy in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. These letters document their lives after their time at Andover.

Phillips Family Papers
This collection compiles the legal documents, letters, books, and original works of several members of the Phillips family including Samuel Phillips (founder of Phillips Academy Andover) and his uncle John Phillips (founder of Phillips Exeter Academy). Items in the collections date 1647-1876...

Student Organizations
Meeting minutes, financial records, membership lists, libraries of student clubs. Thanks to Tam Gavenas, class of 2025, for scanning these in June 2023.

J. P. Weethee journal, 1872-1882
The J.P. Weethee journal includes corresponce related to mineral land purchases for General Thomas Ewing and documents Weethee's life during this time period and his interactions with Ewing. The journal is one bound volume. It was likely bound while Weethee used it because there is writing on...

Woodruff New Documents
The mission of the Wilford Woodruff Papers Foundation is to collect, transcribe, publish, and digitally preserve Wilford Woodruff's records. These document sets on FromThePage.com represent a very small portion of Wilford Woodruff's Papers. As these documents are transcribed, completed...

TRANSCRIPTION EXAMPLES
This set contains examples of transcriptions. Some of the letters are in Suetterlin. Others are not. You can find an image of the Suetterlin alphabet here: http://www.suetterlinschrift.de/Lese/Alphabet.htm Pay attention to the differences between: "A" and "O" "e", "m", "n" "L" and...

Early Wake Forest History
Documents from the early history of Wake Forest, from its founding in 1834 through the late 19th century.

North Carolina Baptist Church Records
The NC Baptist Historical Collection at Wake Forest University includes: over 16,000 titles, church records, association minutes, church files, and 1000+ biographical folders. Learn more about the NC Baptist Historical Collection here.