Skip to content
Libra Esoterica

St. Patrick's purgatory

an essay on the legends of purgatory, hell, and paradise, current during the middle ages

by Thomas Wright

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
Read free

Description

Description from Internet Archive (opens in a new tab)

192 pages : 21 cm Appendix of illustrative pieces: Icelandic visions -- An early burlesque -- Anglo-Saxon description of paradise -- German ballad on paradise

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends.

  • Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends

    Controlled discovery queries from bavarian-state-library, internet-archive, and openlibrary-historical matched “Legends” and “Mythologie”. Retained metadata contains “Legends” in the subtitle, “legend” in the subject metadata, “Legends” in the subject metadata, and 1 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Mythologie”· via Bavarian State Library Digital Collections
    • “Legends”· via Internet Archive
    • “Legends”· via Open Library
    • “Legends”· in subtitle
    • “legend”· in subject
    • “Legends”· in subject

Membership records how this book met the catalog’s discovery criteria — relevance to a tradition, not a judgment of the book’s claims.

Read & download

Free, public copies reported by our sources. Links open the source directly.

Not yet in passage search

Pro research answers quote indexed passages. Ask the library to index this book’s public text.

marks a direct file download. Rights vary by country; each source states its own terms.

Buy or borrow

No ISBN on record, so the Amazon link searches by title and author. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. WorldCat shows libraries near you that hold a copy.

Editions

Open Library reports 4 editions; 2 cataloged here.

an essay on the legends of purgatory, hell, and paradise, current during the middle ages

Internet Archive unrestricted pre-1900 PDF scan

1844-01-01T00:00:00ZLondon : John Russell SmithEnglish—Public digitized item

an essay on the legends of purgatory, hell, and paradise, current during the middle ages

Bavarian State Library digitized rare-book edition

Digitized image count: 236; Extent: 192 S.; Shelfmark: H.g.hum. 242 r

1844John Russell Smith; London : Smith; SmithEnglish—Public

Subjects

15 subject headings

Identifiers & provenance

How this record was assembled, and the authority identifiers it carries.

Cataloged from

Cataloging notes

  • B3Kat identifier: BV021053931
  • Bavarian State Library shelfmark: H.g.hum. 242 r
  • Contributing institution: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
  • Digitization license: https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/
  • Digitization sponsor: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Holding institution or provenance: München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
  • Open Library reports 4 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Publication place: London
  • Scanner: scribe3.nj.archive.org
Catalog id
openlibrary-work:OL1085620W
Edition coverage
Multi source partial
Retrieved