Ungraded reports submitted to Professor Stacey Erickson during January term 2010 for the class, Culture of the Book.  Reports give information about bibles, books and periodicals from the Funderbury Library rare book collection.

Note:  Much of the writing projects student observations and should be processed and utilized accordingly.

Bibles:

Manchester / Special Collections - Rare: 220.52 B471h 1628

Manchester / Special Collections - Rare: 220.53 B471b 1813
First Bible printed West of the Allegheny Mountains (Rumball - Petre, Rare Bibles). 

Funderburg Family Bible.

Manchester / Special Collections - Rare: 220 B47  "The Bible in miniature for children: with twenty-five engravings."

The King James Bible, published in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1872.

Manchester / Special Collections - Rare: 220.52 B471h 1870

Manchester / Special Collections - Rare: 655.1 B47

Manchester / Special Collections - Rare: 220.53 B471b 1830

The New Testament has a special title page.  Following the Old Testament there are six pages of Family Register, with handwritten records of marriages and births, from 1788 forward.

Manchester / Special Collections - Rare: 220.53 B471b 1743

Christopher Saur published the first Bible printed in America in an European language.

Manchester / Special Collections - Rare: 220.52 B471b 1610

Books:

Manchester / Special Collections - Rare: 970.1 C289n

Manchester / Special Collections - Rare: 783.9 C462ch 

Manchester / Special Collections - Rare: 234.7 F836o

Manchester / Special Collections - Rare: 917.58 K312j

Manchester / Special Collections - Rare: 252 W51

Manchester / Special Collections - Rare: 248.4 R1v

Manchester / Special Collections - Rare: 266.2 B81a "Memoir of Catherine Brown, a Christian Indian of the Cherokee Nation," 1932, by Rufus Anderson.

Manchester / Special Collections - Rare: 287.092 W516m

Manchester / Special Collections - Rare: 809.3 D92

Manchester / Special Collections - Rare: 226.5 H97

Manchester / Special Collections - Rare: 425 B813g

Periodicals:

"The Inglenook," Vol. 15., Elgin Illinois: Brethren Publishing House.

"The Brethren's Family Almanac," a 1915 edition.

"The Christian Family Companion," 1865.

"Our Boys and Girls," 1941.

"The Missionary Visitor," 1905.

"The Christian Family Companion," 1866.

"The Gospel Messenger," 1902.
 

A dozen students in Stacey Erickson’s English Department January 2010 course, “The Culture of the Book,” spent four mornings in the special collections of the Library.   Under the supervision of Prof. Erickson and College Archivist Jeanine Wine, they completed hands-on assignments with volumes going back 400 years.  These included a 1610 Bible bound with the important 1619 Whole Book of Psalmes, the 1628 New Holy Bible, and a 1694 edition of Foxe’s “Of Free Justification.”  They worked with one of the rare German Bibles printed in 18^th century Pennsylvania by Christopher Sauer, as well as a number of 19^th century Brethren-related periodicals.