Restoration poetic miscellany [manuscript].
1670
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Title
Restoration poetic miscellany [manuscript].
Created/published
England?, circa 1670.
Description
[138] p.
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Great Britain -- England.
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Call number
FAST ACC 271409 (quarto)
Folger-specific note
From dealer's description: "Herbert, George (1593-1633); Quarles, Francis (1592-1644); Sylvester, Joshua (1563-1618). Rawlins, Thomas (fl. 1670), compiler Manuscript verse miscellany. England: 1670 Otavo: 17.7 x 10 cm. [138] pp. (i.e. 69 unnumbered lvs.) Manuscript on paper. Bound in strictly contemporary black morocco (mild wear), gilt-paneled, with ornaments at the corners, and with the original brass clasps intact. Written in an attractive calligraphic hand, signed and dated by the compiler, Thomas Rawlins at the foot of every page, often with the date 1670. Some slight damage to the foot of the first few leaves very slightly impinging on the text of the first poem by Sylvester. Minor blemishes or small paper defects, else very fine. A superb 17thc. English verse miscellany of poems by George Herbert, Francis Quarles, and Joshua Sylvester, written in the year that Izaak Walton published his "Life" of Herbert. Herbert is represented by 24 poems: "The Thanksgiving", "The Agonie", Redemption", "Good Friday", "The Sepulchre", "Afflication", "Faith", "Antiphon", "Grace", "Trinity Sunday", "Christmas", Colossians 3:3, "Charms and Knots", "Vanitie" (II), "Busyness", "Sin's Round", "King of Glory, King of Peace" (here titled "Prise", i.e. "Praise"), "Longing", "Paradise", "The Call", "Dooms-day", "Judgment", "The Church-porch", and "The Sacrifice". The poems by Quarles include his "Feast for Worms", "The Prisoner", a number of his meditations, etc. Among Sylvester's contributions are long sections of his translation of Du Bartas' "Divine Weeks". This manuscript recorded in CELM (Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700) HrG 56.8 but describing only the inclusion of "The Church-porch." Ordered from Liber Antiquus D9309, 2019-06-06, email quote.
Folger accession
271409