A Short Account of the Wickednesse of ye age before the Destruction of Jerusalem

Scope and Content

Manuscript item bound in a volume of printed pamphlets.

A collection of citations from, and references to, the Bible, the Fathers, and classical authors, illustrating the 'wickedness' of the Jews which led to the destruction of Jerusalem.

First line of text reads: 'Our Saviour generally brands the Jews wth the blackest characters'. Text ends: '... we have the new Jerusalem im[m]ediately succeedinge upon the Destruction of the old'.

Listed in the Bowdler Manuscript Catalogue: Bundle 164, Item 2, where it is indexed as: 'A MS. of the Wickedness of the Jewes before the Destruction of Jerusalem'.