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Knevet, Ralph	5
Ortelius, Abraham (1527-1598)	2
Grodecki, Waclaw	1

Archive Item:
BC MS Lt q 37

Three devotional poems, by Ralph Knevet

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 ...

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/4656

Heavens (?) lamentation

166- ?

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).

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/4657

[unknown]

166- ?

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.

Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/4658

[unknown]

166- ?

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

Archive Item:
BC MS Lt q 73

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

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...