Works of Thomas Traherne V Centuries of Meditations and Select Meditations

Name: Works of Thomas Traherne V Centuries of Meditations and Select Meditations
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ISBN: 9781843843276

ISBN-10: 1843843277

ISBN-13: 9781843843276

Edition: 2013

Authors: Jan Ross

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Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674), a clergyman of the Church of England during the Restoration, was little known until the early twentieth century, when his poetry and Centuries of Meditations were first printed. There have been since only miscellaneous publications of his poetry and devotional writings. The Works of Thomas Traherne brings together for the first time all Traherne's extant works, including his notebooks, in a definitive, printed edition. The six works in this volume are taken from two manuscripts. The first, held at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford (MS Eng. th. e. 50), contains Centuries of Meditations; the other, held at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library,…

Book details

Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, Limited
Publication date: 1/17/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 528
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 1.22" tall
Weight: 1.848
Language: English

Affiliation (To be added only on dust jacket, otherwise omit): Fellow of the George Bell Institute



List of Plates


General Preface


Acknowledgements


Abbreviations


Introduction


The Century as a literary form


Literary form and purpose


Bodleian MS th. e. 50


Description of the physical manuscript


Identification of scripts


Provenance of the manuscript


Osborn MS b. 308


Description of the physical manuscript


Identification of scripts


Production and purpose of the manuscript


Provenance of the manuscript


General editorial principles


Centuries of Meditations


The First Century (untitled)


The Second Century


The Third Century


The Fourth Centurie


The Fifth Centurie


Textual Emendations and Notes


Select Meditations


The First Century (untitled)


The Second Century


The Third Century


The Fourth Century


Textual Emendations and Notes


Miscellaneous works from Osborn MS b. 308


'A Prayer for Ash Wednesday'


'A Meditation'


'Being a Lover of the world'


'The best principle whereby a man can Steer his course'


Textual Emendations and Notes


Appendix


William T. Brooke's account of the discovery of Thomas Traherne's manuscripts: The Story of the Traherne MSS. by their Finder


Bodleian MS Eng. th. e. 50: Manuscript foliation


Osborn MS b. 308: Manuscript foliation


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