‘Spare time…’ by Thomas Grover Florilegus
Reference code
MSS/0295
Title
‘Spare time…’ by Thomas Grover Florilegus
Date
1654
Level of description
item
Extent and format
1 volume; ff. iii + 58.
Octavo.
Leather binding, brown, blind-tooled. On the front pastedown, fol. i, the number '8390' and an erased owner's name (?Richard Helper).
Octavo.
Leather binding, brown, blind-tooled. On the front pastedown, fol. i, the number '8390' and an erased owner's name (?Richard Helper).
Scope and content
'Spare time: or Meditations on Christ's Carrage (to) and care over his people in their feares and doubs, with some of those privileges he has purchased for them.. By Tho: Grover Florilegus Anno. 1654'.
Probably autograph. For the author's name, which is cancelled, see also fol. 58v.
The MS contains two extended religious meditations:- (1) 'The Tempestuous Soule Calmed by Jesus Christ', on Matthew viii. 23-6. fols. 1-34v;- (2) 'The S(ain)ts Legacy', on I Cor. iii. 21-3. fols. 35-58v. The second item includes a number of poems, and several passages which suggest high church or Catholic views, e.g. 'The Saints are Gods Jewells' (fol. 38).
Probably autograph. For the author's name, which is cancelled, see also fol. 58v.
The MS contains two extended religious meditations:- (1) 'The Tempestuous Soule Calmed by Jesus Christ', on Matthew viii. 23-6. fols. 1-34v;- (2) 'The S(ain)ts Legacy', on I Cor. iii. 21-3. fols. 35-58v. The second item includes a number of poems, and several passages which suggest high church or Catholic views, e.g. 'The Saints are Gods Jewells' (fol. 38).
Creator
Florilegus, Thomas Grover (fl 1654)
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/295
Archival history
Probably a Phillipps MS from Heber's sale, 10-20 Feb. 1836. A. N. L. Munby, Phillipps Studies, III (1954) 75-6, 163.