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Southwell, Saint Robert, c.1561-1595, Jesuit priest Dublin City
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Manuscript entitled 'A short rule of a good life'

A short rule of good life To direct the deuout Christian in a regular and orderly course.

With a letter from Prof. Nancy Pollard Brown, (Professor of English, Trinity College, Washington) to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ, 2 February 1967. Brown traces the history of the printed version of the 'Short Rule, and it seems Gwynn had a microfilm made of the manuscript which he sent to her.

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ concerning a seventeenth-century transcript of Robert Southwell’s 'Rule of Good Life' in Milltown Park

  • IE IJA J/10/139
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  • 17 January 1967 - 6 June 1975
  • Part of Irish Jesuits

Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Prof. Nancy Pollard Brown, (Professor of English, Trinity College, Washington) and Dr Peter Beal, concerning a seventeenth-century transcript of Robert Southwell’s 'Rule of Good Life' in Milltown Park, Dublin.

Brown, Nancy Pollard, 1921-2015, professor

Collection of pamphlets of Jesuit interest in the 16th century

  1. De persecutione Anglicana libellus....by Robert Persons SJ, Rome, 1582. Ex libris Josephi Mariani and inscription in Italian;
  2. Rationes decem quibus fretus...by Edmund Campion SJ, Rome, 1582;
  3. Historia del glorioso...by William Allen, 1583;
  4. Alcune lettere della cose del Giappone, 1584;
  5. Relations della felice morte, by Alessandro Valignano SJ, 1584.