The History of Special Collections at Brown University

Valentin Schindler
Lexicon Pentalotton Hebraicum, Chaldaicum, Syriacum, Talmudico-Rabbinicum et Arabicum.  
Hanover: Typis Joannis Jacobi Hennei, 1612

This book, the first acquired for the College Library, is inscribed: "The gift of the Revd. James Manning to Rhode Island College, June 17, 1767."

Williams Table Collection.  Gift of President James Manning

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