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- Creator:
- Newell, Elizabeth
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1655-1668]
- Call Number:
- Osborn b49
- Image Count:
- 19
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, in a single Italic hand, of a collection of 8 religious poems, mostly written in iambic couplets. The collection includes a series of dated """"Poems upon Christmas day,"""" """"A Paraphrase on Simeon?s Song,"""" """"Paraphrase on Seneca?s Thyestes,"""" and two poems titled """"Changes and Troubles."""" The poem titled """"A Dialogue"""" stages a conversation among Christ, Justice, and a Sinner, and the final poem is a lengthy work in four-line stanzas entitled """"A Poetical meditation, wherein the usefullness excellency and several perfections of Holy Scripture are briefly hinted at by J. C."""" Followed, in the same hand, by four pages of psalms.
- Description:
- First few pages are missing. and Teaching resource: English Paleography Examples, 16th-18th century
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain--Religious life and customs
- Subject (Topic):
- Bible. O.T. Psalms, English literature--17th century, English poetry--17th century, Religious poetry, English, and Women authors
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [A Collection of devotional verse], [ca. 1655-1668]
