rdf-syntax-grammar
mods:
  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: New-England diary, or Almanack for the year of our Lord 1725
  name:
    name part: Bowen, Nathan
    name part: 1698-1776
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: Almanacs-Massachusetts-1725.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 1724
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 16 unnumbered pages ; 15 cm. (octavo)
  note: By a native of New England.
  note: At head of title: MDCCXXV.
  note: Two versions of this almanac were issued over the same pen-name and thus allegedly by the same author, the other being printed at Boston by B. Green. Franklin's edition, unlike Green's, is not signed by Bowen, and is said to be a pirated almanac. Cf. Nichols, Charles L. "Notes on the almanacs of Massachusetts." Proc. Amer. Antiq. Soc., n.s. 22 (1912): 54. The calculations on the calendar pages of the two issues are basically identical. The notes on the calendar pages largely differ, particularly in that the Franklin issue omits the abundant planetary and zodiacal information found in the issue by Green, and includes church days, which Green's edition lacks. The respective eclipse notes are versions of each other.
  note: Green's version includes also several pages of astronomical matter, animadversions on the almanac author Nathaniel Whittemore, and a table of roads. None of these appears in the Franklin edition, which contains instead two pages entitled "The principal holy-days in the year explain'd."
  note: Later almanac authors occasionally issued similarly varying editions by different publishers, and possibly the two present versions are legitimate and intended for different audiences.
  note: The calendar pages of the Franklin edition contain many of those enigmatic and oracular observations, seemingly apropos of nothing, which characterize Bowen's almanacs and are not readily imitated. Only one of these ("The winner is a loser", at June 12) occurs in both almanacs, but the examples in the Franklin edition have Bowen's flavor. Still it is possible that they were imitated specifically to give that authentic flavor, and that this is why there are so many of them in the Franklin issue. On the other hand, their abundance may have been intended by Bowen to compensate for the paucity of astronomical notes on the calendar pages of this issue.
  note: Advertised in the New-England courant, Boston, Nov. 16/23, 1724.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Bristol B700
  note: Shipton & Mooney 39821
  note: Drake, M. Almanacs, 3012
  note: Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
  note: Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 39821).
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Whittemore, Nathaniel
      name part: 1673-1754
  subject:
    hierarchical geographic:
      country: United States
      state: Massachusetts
      city: Boston
  related item:
    note: Bristol B700
  related item:
    note: Shipton & Mooney 39821
  related item:
    note: Drake, M. Almanacs, 3012
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Early American imprints. no. 39821
      part number: Series I
      part name: Evans (1639-1800)
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  related item:
    location:
      url: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: MWA
    record creation date: 810812
    record change date: 20260331160727.7
    record identifier: in00002132445