(Americana : Religion) 1 Vol. Manuscript Hebrew Bible Commentary...

(Americana : Religion) 1 Vol. Manuscript Hebrew Bible Commentary and Exigetical Scrapbook. (Elmore, Arvilla, owner and compiler). Compendium of various Methodist seminarians' notes. No place, no date - but composed ca. 1830 and compiled ca. 1855. 4to, original marbled boards with old green ties; panels loose, exterior generally worn. Some leaves blank but mostly filled-in recto/verso in brown ink, manuscript text in seeming multiple hands, with later compiler's manuscript title page: "Mrs. Arvilla H. Elmore / Scrap. Book / Port Jackson. Clinton. Co / New York / February 1855." Internal evidence and some very preliminary research indicate contents to have been composed several decades earlier, perhaps in Vermont. Excerpts in Hebrew from Psalms, Torah, and Maimonides, with German-language commentary. Arvilla Elmore's original poetry and hymnody in English at rear pastedown and end matter.