FPR - Ferrar Prints

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Ferrar Prints

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(1593-1637)

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Educated at Clare Hall/College; Fellow of Clare. From 1618 to 1624 he was director to the affairs of the Virginia Company. Ferrar was ordained as a deacon in 1626 and founded the small Anglican community of Little Gidding, Huntingdonshire, shortly after his mother Mary Ferrar purchased the land there in 1624.

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(1588-1657)

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(1544-1805)

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The Ferrar family involved in the creation of the Ferrar Papers at Magdalene College Cambridge span from Nicholas Ferrar (1544-1620) to Martha Peckard, née Ferrar (1729-1805).

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From 1613 to 1617 Nicholas Ferrar was travelling and studying in Europe, and while he was abroad he bought many religious prints which make up this collection. At Little Gidding in the 1630s his nieces used them to illustrate 'Harmonies of the Gospels', the blending together of the four gospels into a single narrative illustrated with a collage of prints. Many of the prints reveal the excisions made by razor or scissors, a few are annotated by Nicholas, and more by his brother John. John Ferrar's annotations consist chiefly of numerical annotations, referring to the print's corresponding chapter in the Harmony of the Gospels, or alternatively if the print was one of a series. Information provided by Dr David Ransome.

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      For a digitised example of a 'Harmony of the Gospels' compiled by the Ferrar family, please see this example at the Houghton Library, Harvard University: http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/45243608

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