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1723 Copy of ‘A Life of Mahomet’ Possibly Morant’s (?) and Japanese Stamp Collection
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- Part Of
- Nicholas Morant fonds
- Scope & Content
- File consists of 2 books; one 18th century, one 20th century stamp book. Includes 1723 copy of ‘A Life of Mahomet’ by Humphrey Prideaux; missing front/back covers, replaced with plain brown paper covers. Handwritten title ‘Mahomet’ written on front cover and side binding in different handwritings; …
- Date Range
- 1723
- [ca. 1900 - ca. 1920]
- [ca. 1920 - ca. 1940]
- [ca. 1940 - ca. 1960]
- Reference Code
- M300 / III / D / 5 / 91 and 95
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Textual record
- Private record
- Published record
- Part Of
- Nicholas Morant fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M300 / V500 / S20
- Sous-Fonds
- M300
- Sub-Series
- M300 / III / D / 5 : Personal Interest and Gifts
- Accession Number
- Unknown
- Reference Code
- M300 / III / D / 5 / 91 and 95
- Responsibility
- Nicholas Morant (?), Nicholas Morant
- Date Range
- 1723
- [ca. 1900 - ca. 1920]
- [ca. 1920 - ca. 1940]
- [ca. 1940 - ca. 1960]
- Physical Description
- 2 books (1 published, 1 stamp book)
- History / Biographical
- Humphrey Prideaux (1648-1724) was born in Cornwall and eventually became a Doctor of Divinity. Prideaux was an author of multiple textual works pertaining to faith and particularly Christianity. He was the Dean of Norwich from 1702 until his death in 1724.
- Scope & Content
- File consists of 2 books; one 18th century, one 20th century stamp book. Includes 1723 copy of ‘A Life of Mahomet’ by Humphrey Prideaux; missing front/back covers, replaced with plain brown paper covers. Handwritten title ‘Mahomet’ written on front cover and side binding in different handwritings; front believed to be by Nicholas Morant (?), side unknown. Also includes book of Japanese stamps collected by Nicholas Morant; many not dated, various designs and sizes, annotated on covers with Nicholas Morant's personal ink stamp.
- Storage Range
- In file box M300 / III / D / 5 / 75 to M300 / III / D / 5 / 91
- Geographic Access
- England
- Japan
- Canada
- Access Restrictions
- Items in this file are not to be accessed or distributed without the explicit permission of their identified owner(s).
- Reproduction Restrictions
- Items in this file are not to be reproduced without the explicit permission of their identified owner(s).
- Language
- English
- Conservation
- 'Mahomet' book must be stored with protective barrier to prevent further damage (i.e. acid-free paper).
- Biographical Source Notes
- https://www.ccel.org/ccel/prideaux
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Ammonite Fossil
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact112.03.1016
- Date
- prior to 1800
- Material
- mineral
- Catalogue Number
- 112.03.1016
- Description
- An ammonite that is in quite good shape except that the tail is missing. There is no parts of the rock attached to it.
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- Title
- Ammonite Fossil
- Date
- prior to 1800
- Material
- mineral
- Dimensions
- 4.5 cm
- Description
- An ammonite that is in quite good shape except that the tail is missing. There is no parts of the rock attached to it.
- Subject
- prehistory
- paleontology
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1978
- Catalogue Number
- 112.03.1016
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- Date
- c. 1700
- Material
- hair sheep
- Catalogue Number
- 102.01.1011
- Description
- A checked beige, red and blue blanket. There is a prominent seam down the middle.
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- Title
- Blanket
- Date
- c. 1700
- Material
- hair sheep
- Dimensions
- 199 x 184 cm
- Description
- A checked beige, red and blue blanket. There is a prominent seam down the middle.
- Subject
- households
- Sharples
- weaving
- Credit
- Gift of Harold C. Whyte, Penticton, 2012
- Catalogue Number
- 102.01.1011
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Bludgeon Hammerhead
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact104.06.1012
- Date
- prior to 1800
- Material
- mineral
- Catalogue Number
- 104.06.1012
- Description
- An oval shaped rock with an indentation around middle to secure a band.
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- Title
- Bludgeon Hammerhead
- Date
- prior to 1800
- Material
- mineral
- Dimensions
- 11.1 cm
- Description
- An oval shaped rock with an indentation around middle to secure a band.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- warfare
- Credit
- Gift of Joe A. Brewster, Banff, 1980
- Catalogue Number
- 104.06.1012
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Chart of Lakes and Rivers
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue21491
- Medium
- Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
- Map
- Published Date
- c. 1780
- Call Number
- C12-1.16
- Published Date
- c. 1780
- Subjects
- North America
- Notes
- Photostatic copy from Public Archives
- two sections
- Accession Number
- 675
- Call Number
- C12-1.16
- Collection
- Archives Library
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- Date
- prior to 1800
- Material
- mineral
- Catalogue Number
- 104.06.1009
- Description
- a large stone with an indentation around it to attach thong.
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- Title
- Clubhead
- Date
- prior to 1800
- Material
- mineral
- Dimensions
- 10.5 x 15.0 cm
- Description
- a large stone with an indentation around it to attach thong.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- warfare
- Credit
- Gift of Unknown, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- 104.06.1009
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Map from Tyrell Papers
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- Medium
- Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
- Map
- Published Date
- 1785
- Call Number
- C12-1.1
- Published Date
- 1785
- Subjects
- Western Canada
- Notes
- Photostatic copy from Public Archives
- Accession Number
- 675
- Call Number
- C12-1.1
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Map of his discoveries presented to Congress by Peter Pond
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue21479
- Medium
- Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
- Map
- Published Date
- 1785
- Author
- Pond, Peter
- Call Number
- C12-1.6
- Author
- Pond, Peter
- Published Date
- 1785
- Subjects
- Peter Pond
- Notes
- Photostatic copy from Public Archives
- Accession Number
- 675
- Call Number
- C12-1.6
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Map of his discoveries presented to Congress by Peter Pond
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue21480
- Medium
- Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
- Map
- Published Date
- 1785
- Author
- Pond, Peter
- Call Number
- C12-1.6(a)
- Author
- Pond, Peter
- Published Date
- 1785
- Subjects
- Peter Pond
- Notes
- Accompanies 02.5/P77w
- Accession Number
- 400
- Call Number
- C12-1.6(a)
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Map of North America
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue21481
- Medium
- Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
- Map
- Published Date
- 1785
- Author
- Pond, Peter
- Call Number
- C12-1.7
- Author
- Pond, Peter
- Published Date
- 1785
- Subjects
- Peter Pond's Map
- Notes
- Photostatic copy from Public Archives
- Accession Number
- 675
- Call Number
- C12-1.7
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Map of North America
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue21482
- Medium
- Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
- Map
- Published Date
- 1785
- Author
- Pond, Peter
- Call Number
- C12-1.7(a)
- Author
- Pond, Peter
- Published Date
- 1785
- Subjects
- Peter Pond's Map
- Notes
- Photostatic copy from Public Archives
- Accession Number
- 400
- Call Number
- C12-1.7(a)
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Mercator's Projection showing new discoveries
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue21531
- Medium
- Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
- Map
- Published Date
- 1789
- Call Number
- C13-11.1
- Published Date
- 1789
- Subjects
- World
- Notes
- Photostatic copy from Public Archives
- C13-11.1(a), (b), (c), (d)
- Accession Number
- 675
- Call Number
- C13-11.1
- Collection
- Archives Library
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- Date
- prior to 1800
- Material
- metal
- Catalogue Number
- 112.03.1001
- Description
- a small rust coloured meteorite with the top missing exposing the grey metals inside.
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- Title
- Meteorite
- Date
- prior to 1800
- Material
- metal
- Description
- a small rust coloured meteorite with the top missing exposing the grey metals inside.
- Subject
- prehistory
- geology
- Credit
- Gift of Forrest (Pat) Oliver Brewster, Banff, 1966
- Catalogue Number
- 112.03.1001
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North West Territories
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue21483
- Medium
- Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
- Map
- Published Date
- 1787
- Author
- Pond, Peter
- Call Number
- C12-1.8
- Author
- Pond, Peter
- Published Date
- 1787
- Subjects
- Peter Pond's Map
- Notes
- Photostatic copy from Public Archives
- three sections
- Accession Number
- 675
- Call Number
- C12-1.8
- Collection
- Archives Library
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North West Territories
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue21484
- Medium
- Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
- Map
- Published Date
- 1787
- Author
- Pond, Peter
- Call Number
- C12-1.8(d)
- Author
- Pond, Peter
- Published Date
- 1787
- Subjects
- Peter Pond's Map
- Notes
- Accompanies 02.5/P77w
- Smaller scale of maps: C12-1.8 (a) (b) (c)
- Accession Number
- 400
- Call Number
- C12-1.8(d)
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Petrified Wood
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact112.03.1012
- Date
- prior to 1800
- Material
- wood
- Catalogue Number
- 112.03.1012
- Description
- A piece of petrified wood. It is a portion of a large piece broken at both ends.
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- Title
- Petrified Wood
- Date
- prior to 1800
- Material
- wood
- Dimensions
- 12.1 x 15.3 x 16.0 cm
- Description
- A piece of petrified wood. It is a portion of a large piece broken at both ends.
- Subject
- pre history
- paleontology
- botany
- Credit
- Gift of Bill de Haan, Canmore, 1970
- Catalogue Number
- 112.03.1012
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- Date
- 1782 – 1795
- Material
- ceramic, porcelain
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.0209 a-c
- Description
- A set of three serving plates: one large (c), one medium (a), and one small (a). Each platter is white porcelain with a dark blue and gold band around the slightly shaped outer edge. There are four sprays of blue flowers evenly spaced around the edge of each plate, and a single spray of blue flow…
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- Title
- Tableware Set
- Date
- 1782 – 1795
- Material
- ceramic, porcelain
- Description
- A set of three serving plates: one large (c), one medium (a), and one small (a). Each platter is white porcelain with a dark blue and gold band around the slightly shaped outer edge. There are four sprays of blue flowers evenly spaced around the edge of each plate, and a single spray of blue flowers in the centre of each plate. The bottom of each plate has a maker’s mark.
- Subject
- households
- plants
- flowers
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.0209 a-c
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- Date
- 1780 – 1850
- Material
- metal; wood
- Catalogue Number
- 104.06.1004
- Description
- Triangular iron blade, wooden pipe shaped handle, blade 14.2 long flares from 1.3 cm wide to 4.8 cm wide, 5 horizontal lines are etched extending around top of blade, edge of blade is chipped, wooden handle 32.5 long has an "H" etched into the wood 10.6 cm from bottom, 4 wires wind around the handl…
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- Title
- Tomahawk Ax
- Date
- 1780 – 1850
- Material
- metal; wood
- Dimensions
- 2.6 x 20.5 x 32.5 cm
- Description
- Triangular iron blade, wooden pipe shaped handle, blade 14.2 long flares from 1.3 cm wide to 4.8 cm wide, 5 horizontal lines are etched extending around top of blade, edge of blade is chipped, wooden handle 32.5 long has an "H" etched into the wood 10.6 cm from bottom, 4 wires wind around the handle 7.5 cm form top, handle has a black top and bottom, top curves to form a pipe shaped handle, blade seems to be inserted directly through top part of the handle
- Subject
- Indigenous
- warfare
- Credit
- Gift of Don Maskel, 1967
- Catalogue Number
- 104.06.1004
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Trilobite, Ammonite Fossil
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact112.03.1017%20a%2cb
- Date
- prior to 1800
- Material
- mineral; paleontology
- Catalogue Number
- 112.03.1017 a,b
- Description
- (a) trilobite is quite nice, it is on a rock slab 12.4 x 10.8 cm, the trilobite measuring 9.3x4.7 cm, part of the tail is missing.(b) ammonite (9.5x8.7 cm) is actually a shape of an ammonite depressed in a large circular slab of rock measuring 27.0 dia and 2.2 thick.
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- Title
- Trilobite, Ammonite Fossil
- Date
- prior to 1800
- Material
- mineral; paleontology
- Description
- (a) trilobite is quite nice, it is on a rock slab 12.4 x 10.8 cm, the trilobite measuring 9.3x4.7 cm, part of the tail is missing.(b) ammonite (9.5x8.7 cm) is actually a shape of an ammonite depressed in a large circular slab of rock measuring 27.0 dia and 2.2 thick.
- Subject
- prehistory
- paleontology
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1978
- Catalogue Number
- 112.03.1017 a,b
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Trilobite Fossil
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact112.03.1003%20a-s
- Date
- prior to 1800
- Material
- mineral
- Catalogue Number
- 112.03.1003 a-s
- Description
- 19 pieces of slate and slabs of limestone containing imprints of trilobites, some whole, halves or just parts; many pieces are merely fragments of trilobites:(a) a piece of limestone 2.3cm high x 11.0x6.7cm wide, with a clear, whole, imprint of a small trilobite (3.0x2.0 cm wide); (b) a piece of li…
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- Title
- Trilobite Fossil
- Date
- prior to 1800
- Material
- mineral
- Description
- 19 pieces of slate and slabs of limestone containing imprints of trilobites, some whole, halves or just parts; many pieces are merely fragments of trilobites:(a) a piece of limestone 2.3cm high x 11.0x6.7cm wide, with a clear, whole, imprint of a small trilobite (3.0x2.0 cm wide); (b) a piece of limestone 2.5cm high x 17.3x7.5cm wide, with a clear, whole imprint of a small trilobite (5.7x3.0 cm wide).(c) a piece of slate 1.5 cm high x 9.7x8.0cm wide, almost whole imprints of two trilobites one (5.0x3.0 cm wide ) and the smaller one 2.0x 1.5 cm wide;(d) a piece of slate 1.20 cm high x 16.0x9.0cm wide with an almost whole, but not very clear imprint, of a trilobite, missing head 10.5x5.5cm wide;(e) a piece of limestone 2.50 cm x 11.0 high x14.5 cm wide with an almost whole imprint of a trilobite (6.9x3.8cm wide);(f) a piece of limestone 2.5cm high x 7.5x9.3 cm wide, with a partial imprint of a small trilobite (6.4x3.7 cm wide);(g) a piece of limestone 1.3cm high x 8.7x9.0 cm wide, with a partial imprint of a small trilobite (3.2x2.5 cm wide);(h) a piece of slate 2.4cm high x 7.5x8.5 cm wide, with a partial imprint of a trilobite (3.2x3.0 cm wide);(i) a piece of slate 1.80cm high x 9.0x11.0 cm wide, with an almost whole imprint of a trilobite (6.4x3.7 cm wide);(j) a piece of slate 1.20 cm high x 16.0x9.0cm wide with a partial imprint of a trilobite, missing head, 10.5x5.5cm wide. There is also a partial imprint on the back;(k) a piece of slate 2.2 cm high x 7.3x18.0cm wide with an almost whole imprint of a trilobite, 10.0x5.3cm wide. There is also two partial imprints on the back;(l) a piece of slate 1.2 cm high x 5.0x11.2 cm wide, with about one third of an imprint of a trilobite (3.2x4.5 cm wide);(m) a piece of slate .08cm high x10.3.x7.0 cm wide, with an almost whole imprint of a trilobite (3.2x.9.5x7.2 cm wide);(n) a small (0.80cm high) piece of slate 5.5x7.5 cm wide, with a partial imprint of a trilobite (4.0x5.8 cm wide);(o) a very small (0.80cm) high piece of slate 5.3x2.8 cm wide, with a partial, but very clear, imprint of a trilobite (4.5x2.7 cm wide);(p) a piece of slate 9.2x8.5 cm wide, with a few very small (almost indiscernible) traces of trilobite;(q) a piece of slate 9.5x12.8 cm wide, with a long, but very narrow, trace of the side of a trilobite;(r) a piece of slate that doesn’t seem to have anything distinguishable although it is part of a fossil;(s) a small (0.70cm high) piece of slate 3.7x3.5 cm wide, with a partial imprint of a trilobite (1.9x3.5 cm wide).
- Subject
- prehistory
- paleontology
- hobbies
- Art Krowchuk
- Credit
- Gift of Art Krowchuk, Canmore, 1970
- Catalogue Number
- 112.03.1003 a-s
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