University of Pennsylvania Ms. Codex 726: Francis Daniel Pastorius, His Hive, Melliotrophium Alvear or, Rusca Apium. Volume 1

Pastorius' commonplace book, usually referred to as the Beehive manuscript (from
Pastorius' prologue, p. 1), is a compendium and alphabetical digest of knowledge including
inscriptions, epitaphs, proverbs, poetry, Biblical citations, theological citations,
quotations, a list of books he read or knew, copies of letters, and notes on science, useful
herbs and other plants. Pastorius divided his list of titles into "Quaker" and "No Quaker,"
Quaker titles number 414 and non-Quaker 700 (see Lyman W. Riley). A section of genealogical
materials on the Pastorius family was bound in or laid in at the end of vol. 1, this
includes a memorial poem to Francis Daniel Pastorius by Howell Powell, dated 1720, and added
entries in many hands recording births and deaths in the Pastorius family to 1865. A
Catalogue of Francis Daniel Pastorius his Manuscripts, is in Vol. 2, p. 736. Vol. 3 is a
continuation of the indexes present in the Beehive Manuscript itself; it is in Pastorius'
hand and its references are almost entirely to entries in Vol. 2. Title from caption title,
vol. 1, p. 7; this heading is no longer intact; alternate title from caption heading at the
start of the text, vol. 1, p. 51. A few folios have loss of text due to severe oxidation of
ink. Incipit: For as much as our Memory is not Capable to retain all remarkable Words,
Phrases, Sciences or Matters of Moment, which we do hear and read, it becomes every good
Scholar to have a Common-Place Book, & therein to treasure up what ever deserves his
notice &c. And to the end that he may readily know, both whither to dispose and Insert
each particular, as also when upon Occasion to find the same again, &c. he ought to make
himself an Alphabetical Index, like that of this Bee-Hive...p. 1. For a full description,
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