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The pathe to paradise

Title
The pathe to paradise, [circa 1600].
Physical Description
1 v. (27 ff.) 22 cm. x 15 cm.
Language
English
Notes
The title page has crosses in gold ink surrounding the name of Mary Yeate.
Pasted in before the title page is a slip which reads, "The Rev. Charles Churchill, Halifax, Nova Scotia, requests your acceptance of this manuscript found on board a vessel wrecked off the coast of Bermuda."
Binding: nineteenth-century paper boards.
In English.
Provenance
Bequest of James M. Osborn, 1976.
Summary
Manuscript, on paper, in italic script, produced in England around 1600. The text is a devotional poem, also known as The Fourfold Meditation. After the introduction of 216 lines, the poem begins "O wretched man which louest earthlie thinges..." Manuscript, on paper, in italic script, produced in England around 1600.
For more information on the text, see notes to Osborn a6.
Variant and related titles
The fourfold meditation.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
July 26, 2010
References
Arundel, Philip Howard, The Pathe to Paradise. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Arundel, Philip Howard, The Pathe to Paradise. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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