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Memorial of chaste and pious women : autograph manuscript, undated.

BIB_ID
132661
Accession number
MA 308
Creator
Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852.
Display Date
undated.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Description
1 item (26 p.), unbound ; 31.3 cm
Notes
This manuscript is incomplete. The text ends abruptly on page 26.
This manuscript was never published because Moore suppressed it.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson, 1900.
Summary
A satiric description of the lives of St. Barbara, St. Juliana of Nicomedia, Saint Paula, Anna Maria van Schurman, Saint Julitta, Eve, "Pope Joan," and other historical characters, with many original poems and quotations from the classics.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (43.3 cm)