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The Crucifixion. A Curious Piece of Antiquity.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Misc Print Collection box 8 no 16
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jesus Christ--Crucifixion--Poetry.
- Jesus Christ.
- Christian poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Broadsides.
- Poems -- 1834.
- Acrostics.
- Penn Provenance:
- Burr, Charles W. (Charles Walts), 1861-1944 (donor) (Kislak Center copy)
- Physical Description:
- 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 28 x 22 cm
- Other Title:
- First line: O God my God. In rivers of my tears
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Designed and Engraved by Jacob Perkins, 1834.
- Notes:
- Verse in twenty-six lines.
- Depicts three crosses with verses arranged to be read as acrostics within the columns; each line of verse extends across the crosses, with one or more words enclosed within the cross-pieces of the crosses, and one or more letters enclosed within the columns of each cross; the letters within the columns form words of Christ and the two thieves, reading down each column.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 1923 by Charles Walts Burr.
- OCLC:
- 1374069454
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