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.
William Prynne (1600-1669)
Category
Books
Date
1641
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3048969
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16],184,[6],16 p. ; 4to. Running number: 1353. Errata on final leaf. Dedication "To the Right Worshipfull his ever honoured worthy friend ..." on leaf signed [par.]3 precedes "To the Christian reader". Imperfect: wants initial blank and portrait plate. Provenance: library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Manuscript inscription on front board in eighteenth-century(?) hand: "Oi.30". Manuscript inscriptions on lower board in nineteenth-century hand: [1] "11 241", [2] "+011". Binding: seventeenth-century full sprinkled sheepskin over boards (worn, stained) with double blind fillet border. Blind dash pattern on board edges. Recessed supports; smooth spine, untooled. Three leather thongs laced in. No pastedown, added endleaf at both ends. Sprinkled edges. Rebacked at Cambridge in 1956 (pencil inscription on verso of front endleaf in hand of Cecil Clarabut, the National Trust's first Libraries Adviser).
Makers and roles
William Prynne (1600-1669)