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Mount-Orgueil: or Divine and profitable meditations : raised from the contemplation of these three leaves of natures volume, 1. rockes, 2. seas, 3. gardens, digested into three distinct poems. To which is prefixed, a poeticall description, of Mount-Orgueil Castle in the Isle of Jersy. By VVilliam Prynne, late exile, and close prisoner in the sayd Castle. A poem of The soules complaint against the body; and Comfortable cordialls against the discomforts of imprisonment, &c. are hereto annexed

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Title: Mount-Orgueil: or Divine and profitable meditations : raised from the contemplation of these three leaves of natures volume, 1. rockes, 2. seas, 3. gardens, digested into three distinct poems. To which is prefixed, a poeticall description, of Mount-Orgueil Castle in the Isle of Jersy. By VVilliam Prynne, late exile, and close prisoner in the sayd Castle. A poem of The soules complaint against the body; and Comfortable cordialls against the discomforts of imprisonment, &c. are hereto annexed

Other titles: Divine and profitable meditations

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Classmark: BC Lt/PRY

Creator(s): Prynne, William (1600-1669)

Publisher: printed by Tho. Cotes, for Michael Sparke Senior, dwelling at the blue Bible in Greene Arbor

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1641

Language: English

Size and medium: [16], 56, 59-184; [4], 16 p., [1] leaf of plates

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/283658

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991001771359705181

Collection group(s): English Literature

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In verse.


First edition.


One of four possible imprint variants of this text.


With marginal notes.


Order and number of preliminary leaves vary. Ideal copies include a 4-line verse (printed in 7 lines) which accompanies a portrait of the author. These two leaves may either precede or follow title page. There are two verse dedications, "To the Christian reader", which fills both sides of a leaf, and "To the Right Worshipfull his ever honoured worthy friend..." on a leaf signed [par.]3, the verso of which is blank. These two dedication leaves are frequently interchanged.


With errata on the final leaf. In one of the other issues, errata in the same setting are on A4v.


"Rockes improved", "Christian sea-card", "Christian paradise", and "Soules complaint" each have separate dated title page; pagination and register are continuous.


"Comfortable cordialls" has separate signatures (A-C) and pagination; ²A3 and ²B1 signed A*3 and B* respectively.


Pp. 57-8 omitted in the pagination; p.177 erroneously marked 176. Page 184 is followed by a blank leaf [Aa4].


Divine and profitable meditations.


Indexed in: Wing (CD-Rom, 1996) P4013 issue without the list of Errata on the verso of the dedication to Lady Anne Carteret.

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Separate part title for Comfortable cordials (sig.[²A1]) is cropped at the foot

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