Benlowes’s inscription in The Purple Island (1633)

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Benlowes’s inscription in a “large paper” copy of The Purple Island, reading: “Benevolus - Esse suj voluis monumentum & pignus Amoris.”
Benlowes’s inscription in a “large paper” copy of The Purple Island. The Morgan Library & Museum. PML 17605.

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Benlowes’s inscription in a “large paper” copy of The Purple Island, reading: “Benevolus - Esse suj voluis monumentum & pignus Amoris.”

  • type
    Image
  • created on
  • file format
    png
  • file size
    16 MB
  • container title
    Phineas Fletcher, The Purple Island, or the Isle of Man: Together with Piscatorie Eclogs and other Poeticall Miscellanies (Cambridge: Printers to the University of Cambridge, 1633)
  • copyright status
    Public Domain
  • creator
    Edward Benlowes
  • credit
    Photograph by Whitney Trettien. By permission of The Morgan Library & Museum.
  • original publisher
    University of Cambridge Press
  • original publisher place
    Cambridge
  • rights holder
    Whitney Trettien
  • rights territory
    Worldwide