The anatomie of the English nunnery at Lisbon in Portugall : dissected and laid open by one that was sometime a younger brother of the couent : who (if the grace of God had not preuented him) might haue growne as old in a wicked life as the oldest amongst them.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robinson, Thomas, active 1622.

Contributor:

Eld, George, -1624, printer.

Milbourne, Robert, -1642 or 1643, bookseller.

Stephens, Philemon, -approximately 1665, bookseller.

STC Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Anatomy of the English nunnery at Lisbon in Portugall

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sion House (Lisbon, Portugal).

Catholic Church.

Monasticism and religious orders for women--Portugal--Early works to 1800.

Monasticism and religious orders for women.

Catholic Church--Controversial literature--Early works to 1800.

Portugal.

Genre:

Controversial literature.

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 32 pages ; 19 cm (4to)

Place of Publication:

[London] : [Printed by George Eld and] are to bee sould by R. Milbourne and Philemon Stephens, 1623.

Notes:

Dedication to Thomas Gurlin signed: Thomas Robinson.

Printer's name from STC.

Signatures: A-E⁴.

Half-page engr. ill. on title-leaf depicting monks and nuns in four scenes. "The explanation of the picture on the title" (in verse) on leaf A1v.

Text and marginalia printed within ruled borders.

"Published by authoritie."

Reference to Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis on p. 17.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.) 21124

ESTC S114564

OCLC:

83715055