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Total number of records: 2238

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Society of Friends233
Fox, George (1624-1691)194
Jesus Christ176
Tipping, William ?111
Penn, William (1644-1718)74
Whitehead, George (1636?-1723)63
Anonymous60
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Morris, Castilian27

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Title: Christ and Anti-Christ

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 165- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 18

Contents: Epigram on the power of anti-Christ on earth

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Title: Christ

Author: Morris, Castilian

Attribution: C. Morris

Date(s): 1696

Manuscript: Lt 56

Contents: Religious acrostic on the word Christ, in which Christ offers

comfort and salvation to those that turn to him. Between items

dated 1696.

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Title: On Christ's Passion

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 174- or 175- ?

Manuscript: Lt 45

Contents: Religious poem on the natural phenomena that accompanied Christ's passion, or

crucifixion

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Title: On the nativity of Christ

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 174- or 175- ?

Manuscript: Lt 45

Contents: Religious poem of praise and thanksgiving on Christmas Day, for Christ's

nativity or incarnation

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Title: My Christ

Author: Tipping, William ?

Date(s): 169- or 170- ?

Manuscript: Lt 50

Contents: Religious poem on devotion to Christ and rejection of the world

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Title: My Christ

Author: Tipping, William ?

Date(s): 169- or 170- ?

Manuscript: Lt 50

Contents: Religious poem expressing devotion to Christ and contempt for the world

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Title: The Jewes mockinge of Christ

Author: Rowlands, Samuel

Date(s): 1598 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 77

Contents: Religious poem on the mocking of Jesus Christ by the Jews before the Crucifixion. From Samuel Rowlands's "The Betraying of Christ".

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Title: Christs wrongfull judgement

Author: Rowlands, Samuel

Date(s): 1598 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 77

Contents: Religious poem on Pontius Pilate's role in the trial of Jesus Christ. Seemingly from the "lost" second 1598 edition of Samuel Rowlands's "The Betraying of Christ".

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Title: A hymne to Christ the Mesiah

Author: Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax

Attribution: F.

Date(s): 166- ?

Manuscript: Lt 105

Contents: Religious poem, in praise of Christ

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Christs Kirk on the green

James King of Scots (1394-1437); James King of Scotland (1512-1542)

[ca. 1626?]

In verse. Broadsheet, folded, possibly with the intention of cutting into two half-sheets. "The attribution to James V of Scotland is almost certainly false; evidence for and against the authorshi...

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Christ (fol. 1r)
Archive Piece

Christ (fol. 1r)

[ca 1450-1500]

4-line initial 'D' in blue on red background, decorated with a strawberry, a speedwell and a daisy, and inhabited with a head-and-shoulders portrait of Christ, crowned with thorns.

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A declaracion of Christe and of his offyce

Hooper, John Bishop of Gloucester and Worcester (1555)

1547

Signatures: A-L8, M6. Imprint from colophon.

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