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Three devotional poems, by Ralph Knevet
Knevet, Ralph
1660s
Three religious poems written on the back of a 2-page engraved and coloured map of Poland "auctore Wenceslao Godreccio" [Waclaw Grodecki] first published in Basel in 1562, but here apparently removed ...
Title: Heavens (?) lamentation
Author: Knevet, Ralph
Date(s): 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 37 [1]
Contents: Religious poem, deploring mankind's sin and hardness of heart, and imagining the heavens as lamenting also by sending wind, rain and bad weather. Occurs as "The Lamentation" in Knevet's "A Gallery to the Temple" (BL Add MS 27447).
Title: [unknown]
Author: Knevet, Ralph
Date(s): 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 37
Contents: Religious poem asking for a purer heart, so that it might be a suitable place for God to dwell in. Occurs as "Sanctification" in Knevet's "A Gallery to the Temple" (BL Add MS 27447). Right hand edge of text lost.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Knevet, Ralph
Date(s): 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 37
Contents: Religious poem reflecting on the writer's relationship to sin but finding also the possibility of receiving grace. Occurs as "The Pedigree" in Knevet's "A Gallery to the Temple" (BL Add MS 27447). Right hand edge of the text of the first 6 stanzas
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Compositional draft of five devotional poems by Ralph Knevet, on the verso of a copy of the Ortelius map of the Kingdom of Prester John
Knevet, Ralph
1640s
The poems entitled 'Prayer', 'Sicknes', 'The world', 'Preaching' and 'Memory', together approximately 123 lines of verse in two columns, on the blank verso of: [Abraham ORTELIUS (1527-1598)]. Prebis...