Manuscript on paper, in a cursive hand, of thirty-three prayers for the relief of the souls in Purgatory. The prayers open with "We salute thee o most sweet Lord Jesus," and focus particularly on redemption through the events of the Passion and Resurrection. The final prayer asks Him "mercifully to forgive us all our omissions of intention in these prayers and let them not be through our coldness less meritorious to these poor souls.", Pages 54-[55] contain a devotional practice "For y.e Holy Conversation," directing daily recital of the Litanies of Loreto, weekly Mass on Tuesday, "a pair of Beads" on "y.e first Tuesday of y.e month," and receiving Communion three times a year, "upon y.e Feast of the Circumcision, of y.e purification, and of St. Joseph." Dated "12 Jan 1675/6.", and This text is almost identical to that of Three and thirty most godly and deuout prayers and salutations...for faithfull soules departed [St. Omer, 1620-40?]. Also includes a translation of Psalm 50 (51), the Miserere, which combines phrasing from the Douai version and the revised version which appeared in The Primer, or Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in English... (St. Omer, 1673).
Description:
Binding: Contemporary English calf, spine gilt., Corrections include careful renumbering of all prayers past Prayer 5 on pasted-in small slips., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., Separate title page with decorated print capitals., and Spine title: "33 prayers for the souls in purgatory" (paper label).
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Customs and practices, Catholic Church--England, Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions, and Jesus Christ--Passion--Prayer-books and devotions
Subject (Topic):
Catholics--England, Devotional exercises--Catholic Church, Devotional literature, English, Miserere, Prayers for the dead, and Purgatory
Foliation errors throughout. and Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of a collection of 33 of Donne's poems and several of his other writings. The poems include Catholicism-inflected poems "A Lettanie" and "A Sonnett On the blessed Virgin Marie," as well as "Satira Prima" through "Satira Sexta," selections from his elegies, "The Flea," "Diamond in Glass" ["A Valediction of My Name, in the Window"], and sets of "Canzons," "Canzonettes," and "Airs and Angles." Other writings include several satirical prose "Problemes" such as "Why doe women delight so much in feathers" and "Why doth not gold soyle the fingers" and a copy of a letter by Donne to the Countess of Bedford accompanied by the poem "Obsequies on the Lord Harrington brother to the Countess of Bedford."
Description:
Binding: parchment. and For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--England
Subject (Topic):
Elegiac poetry., English literature--17th century, English poetry--17th century, Metaphysics--Poetry, Religious poetry, and Verse satire, English
