Select meditations, [ca. 1660-1665]
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Description
- Title
- Select meditations, [ca. 1660-1665]
- Creator
- Traherne, Thomas, d. 1674
- Contributor
- Traherne, Thomas, d. 1674
- Published / Created
- [ca. 1660-1665]
- Abstract
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Manuscript on paper, in a single Italic hand, of several hundred brief religious meditations divided into four "centuries" of 100 meditations each; the first and last centuries are incomplete. Topics include the God's love, doing good works, and hypostatical union. The author writes, "Light is not more Beautifull, and Healing in the Sun, then the Beams of his Gospel Shining in our chambers. We were before Like Dragons inhabiting the Parched Places of the Desart wildernes: now streams and Rivers flow upon the Top of evry Hill," and he describes human fallibility thus: "Man is in this Glorious world Environed with Delights and Spiritual Exaltations, Ineffable Joys and celestial Treasures. But is in the midst of all a filthy peece of Insensat Dirt, a careless Stupid & Repining Devil." The manuscript also includes several meditations in verse and a longer treatise on the soul.
- Description
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Accompanied by newspaper article by James Osborn attributing the manuscript to Thomas Traherne.
Binding: full sheep.
Scans include backlit images of pp. 226, 244, 246 to reveal watermarks. - Extent
- 1 v. (200 p.) ; 15 x 10 cm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Osborn b308
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Format
- text
- Genre
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Devotional literature
Manuscripts
Micrography (Writing technique)
Watermarks - Resource Type
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Subject (Geographic)
- Great Britain--Religious life and customs
- Subject (Name)
- Traherne, Thomas, d. 1674
- Subject (Topic)
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Devotional literature
English literature--17th century
English poetry--17th century
Meditations
Meditations (Religious)
Religious poetry, English
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 7040356
- Object ID (OID)
- 2056424