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Record 4441

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
In Will of Robert Keayne of Boston: 'As my special gift to ... [his son] my little written book in my closet upon I Cor. II, 27, 28, which is a treatise on the sacrament of the Lord's Supper ... [It is] a little thin pocket book bound in leather, all written with my own hand, which I esteem more precious than gold, and which I have read over I think 100 and 100 times ...'
Century: 1600-1699
Date: unknown
Country: n/a
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:Robert Keayne
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 1595
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Merchant tailor
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: n/a
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author:
Title: Treatise on I. Corinthians II.27, 28
Genre: Other religious
Form of Text: Manuscript: Codex, Leather bound pocketbook
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 4441  
Source - Print  
  Author: David D. Hall
  Editor: n/a
  Title: Cultures of Print: Essays in the History of the Book
  Place of Publication: Amherst
  Date of Publication: 1996
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 65
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: David D. Hall, Cultures of Print: Essays in the History of the Book (Amherst, 1996), p. 65, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4441, accessed: 01 May 2024

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