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Fenelon, Francois De Salignac De La Mothe- (1651-1715)5
Hale, Matthew (1609-1676)4
Shewen, William (1631?-1695)4
Mollineux, Mary (1651?-1695)3
Gerhard, Johann (1582-1637)2
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Contemplations moral and divine : in two parts

Hale, Matthew (1609-1676)

1711

Part 2 has special title-page, dated 1710.

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Traité de la paix de l'ame, et du contentement de l'esprit

Du Moulin, Pierre (1601-1684)

1729

The author published this work first in English and afterwards in French.

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Contemplations moral and divine (v.1)

Hale, Matthew (1609-1676)

1676

"A good method to entertain unstable and troublesome times" and "The great audit" (v.1) and "Meditation upon the Lord's prayer" (v.2) have separate half titles and pagination.

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Contemplations moral and divine (v.2)

Hale, Matthew (1609-1676)

1676

"A good method to entertain unstable and troublesome times" and "The great audit" (v.1) and "Meditation upon the Lord's prayer" (v.2) have separate half titles and pagination.

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Querela siue, Dialogus animæ & corporis damnati : Quem aiunt S. Bernardum ex nocturna visione composuisse. Ex vetusto codice discripta

Crashaw, William (1572-1626); Bernard of Clairvaux, Saint (1153); Fulbert Saint, Bishop of Chartres (960-1028)

1616

Signatures: A-H¹². Not in fact by St. Bernard; an English verse translation by William Crashaw of the anonymous medieval Latin poem "Noctis sub silencio tempore brumali", sometimes referred to as ...

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Meditations at Holy Communion

T. S. L; Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain)

[193-?]

Cover title.

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A description of an annuall world, or, Briefe meditations upon all the holy-daies in the yeere : with certaine briefe poeticall meditations of the day in generall and all the daies in the weeke

Browne, Edward (fl. 1641)

1641

Attributed to Edward Browne. cf. NUC pre-1956. Fully described in Grolier club cat. of early works of English writers from Wither to Pryor, New York, 1905, v. 1, no. 103, p. 96-97 & facsimile facing...

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Divine fancies : digested into epigrammes, meditations, and observations

Quarles, Francis (1592-1644)

1633

Second edition. Title and imprint within double lined borders. In verse. Printer's name from STC. The first leaf and the last leaf are blank. Pages 89-96 (sig. N) numbered 81-88 in error.

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A feast for vvormes : Set forth in a poeme of the history of Ionah

Quarles, Francis (1592-1644); Kingston, Felix; Moore, Richard (fl. 1607-1631)

1626

Second edition. First leaf is blank. Signatures: A-N⁴ O². With a woodcut title page ornament. "Pentelogia" has a separate dated title page. The "w" of "wormes" on title page is formed of ...

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BC MS Lt 56, f. 68v: Castilian Morris's poem
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Autograph manuscript book containing religious meditations and effusions in prose and verse, compiled by Castilian Morris

Morris, Castilian

1692-1697

The text includes some 85 prose meditations, prayers and paraphrases of scripture, 64 acrostic poems and a verse paraphrase of the Lord's Prayer (f.136r). The prayers on f.112v have emblematic illustr...

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