Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of various texts pertaining to theological inquiry. Contents include a series of letters between "W.S" and "T.P" debating the issue of free will; arguments for the baptism of infants; letters from "W.S" criticizing "G.S.," a "Taylor, & ye most debauch'd villain in ye Countrey, & now turn'd Preacher;" a debate concerning how to keep the Sabbath after having sailed to America, accompanied by a diagram illustrating how ships sailing eastward may gain a day; a dialogue between Montezuma, Cortez, a Jesuit and an Indian priest, which is extremely similar to a scene in John Dryden's Indian Emperor; and a "Dialogue between ye Angel Gabriel & Adam in Paradise, concerning free will & Predestination" in blank verse, roughly parallel to a scene in Dryden's State of Innocence.
Description:
Binding: full sheep. and Portions of text in cipher on p. 79-80, 96, 97, and 100.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Religious life and customs
Subject (Name):
Dryden, John,--1631-1700 and Stanton, William,--1673-
Subject (Topic):
English poetry--17th century, Infant baptism--Controversial literature, Religious literature, English, Theology--England, and Theology--Examinations, questions, etc
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:
Accompanied by newspaper article by James Osborn attributing the manuscript to Thomas Traherne., Binding: full sheep., and Scans include backlit images of pp. 226, 244, 246 to reveal watermarks.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Religious life and customs
Subject (Name):
Traherne, Thomas, d. 1674
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, English literature--17th century, English poetry--17th century, Meditations, Meditations (Religious), and Religious poetry, English
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
Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, consisting of aphorisms, axioms, and pithy commentary on such subjects as "Wisdom, "Money," "Retalliation," and "Parliament." Prefaced by a dedication to Lord Chief Justice Matthew Hale, Edward Heywood, John Vaughan, and Rowland Jenkes, signed by Selden's secretary Richard Milward, who "had the opportunity to hear his discourse twenty years together."
Description:
9 preliminary leaves, front and back, some lined but otherwise blank, not digitized., Armorial bookplate of Hugh Cecil Earl of Lonsdale., Binding: contemporary full leather., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., and Includes alphabetized table of contents.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Politics and government--1603-1649 and Great Britain--Religious life and customs
Subject (Name):
Hale, Matthew,--Sir,--1609-1676, Lowther, Hugh Cecil, Earl of Lonsdale--Bookplate, Milward, Ri.--(Richard),--1609-1680, and Selden, John,--1584-1654--Table-talk
Subject (Topic):
Aphorisms and apothegms--17th century, Conduct of life--17th century, and Conduct of life--Quotations, maxims, etc
