Mysterium Magnum : or an exposition of the first book of Moses called Genesis ... / written ... by Jacob Boehm ; [with a preface by John Sparrow].
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| Language: | English |
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London :
printed by M. Simmons for H. Blunden, at the Castle in Cornehill,
1654.
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| Collection: | Stearne |
| Item Description: | On front guard written in ink: "our Salvation is in the Life of Jesus christ in us". 'P' and '[J. Sta...]' (autograph?) written on title page. Extensive annotations in English in ink. Includes 16 pages of transcription of the missing printed pages followed by a poem in a different hand: 'What may I call thee, or what is thy name That lou'd the mysterie, and tooke this paine. That rather then these pages, lost should be, With pleasure, doubtless, they were pen'd by thee. Also 'Mary' is written in red pencil in large letters on page 54-55. Manicules and margins have been drawn in red pencil. |
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| Physical Description: | 20 unnumbered, 605, 28 unnumbered pages |
| Published References: | Wing B. 3411. See Donations book 1720-30. |
| Provenance Note: | Written in ink on front pastedown "Iohn Pennell, his book, Nov. VII 1718. This Book was Bought at the auction, at Dicks coffe house in Skinner Row. [price scribbled out]. Ex dono admodum Reverendi". Marsh library stamp on pastedown and title page. |
| Binding Note: | Leather. Blind tooled. Speckled edges. |
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