- Published / Created:
- [ca.1580-1600]
- Call Number:
- Osborn a30
- Image Count:
- 242
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper in a neat bookhand of 57 devotional poems written in celebration of the feasts of the Roman Catholic Church from Trinity Sunday to the close of the Time after Pentecost. The volume opens with a 13 stanza poem, "For Trinitie Sunday," followed by a 12 stanza poem, "Of the Blessed Sacrament." Thereafter the poems cover feasts and saints' days from St. Barnaby's Day (June 11) to St. Catherine's Day (November 25); there are several feasts represented by two poems. and The verses are in a variety of stanza forms. Stanzas are numbered, and each poem is headed by a title within rules and closes with "Amen."
- Description:
- In English., Purchased from Richard Hatchwell on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 1993., and Volume may be the surviving second volume of a set covering the complete church year.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions
- Subject (Topic):
- Catholics--England, Church year--Poetry, English poetry--16th century, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Roman Catholic devotional poetry, [circa 1580-1600].
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