Adam and Eve in St. John’s gift copy

Resource added
Photograph of a page opening in Benlowes’s gift copy of Theophila to St. John’s College Library.
Woodcut of Adam and Eve, inserted in Canto 2 in this copy of Theophila (1652). St Johns College Library, Bb.4.25, facing sig. E6v.

Full description

A woodcut of Adam and Eve in Eden inserted at the poem’s beginning, at a recounting of Genesis.

  • type
    Image
  • created on
  • file format
    jpg
  • file size
    7 MB
  • container title
    Edward Benlowes, Theophila (London: Henry Seile and Humphrey Moseley, 1652)
  • copyright status
    Public Domain
  • creator
    Edward Benlowes, Francis Barlow
  • credit
    Photograph by Whitney Trettien. By permission of the Master and Fellows of St. John’s College, Cambridge.
  • original publisher
    Edward Benlowes, Roger Norton, Henry Seile, Humphrey Moseley
  • original publisher place
    London
  • rights holder
    Whitney Trettien
  • rights territory
    Worldwide