GEMMS IDGEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-001233
TitleA Sermon preached in St Pauls Church
ShelfmarkEL 6868 (35/B/3)
Creation Date1626 - 1626
RepositoryThe Henry E. Huntington Library
Contents NoteThis manuscript contains one presentation copy of a sermon preached by Matthew Griffith. The sermon appears with its own title page, upon which is written the following: 'A Sermon preached in St Pauls Church on the 15 day of October, beinge the first Sonday in Michaelmas tearme. 1626. by Matth: Griffith'.
Material FeaturesQuarto. Gold-tooled limp vellum binding.
Associated Peoplemanuscript owner - Egerton, Johnmanuscript owner - Egerton, Johnmanuscript owner - Huntington, Henry
Provenance
AcquisitionThe Bridgewater House Library was purchased by Henry E. Huntington from John Francis Granville Scrope Egerton, Fourth Earl of Ellesmere, in 1917.
Source of DataEgerton Family Papers online finding aid (see link below); Guide to Literary Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, CA: The Huntington Library, 1979), p. 204; Guide to British Historical Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, CA: The Huntington Library, 1982), p. 49; Hannah Yip.
Other NoteSee Guide to British Historical Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, CA: The Huntington Library, 1982), pp. 21-25 for more information about the Ellesmere Collection. In a note included with EL 6868 (35/B/3), dated 29 August 2001, Mary Morrissey has written that this text 'appears to be an early sermon on the Forced Loan of 1626-8'. This sermon is discussed in Mary Morrissey, 'Sermon-Notes and Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Communities', Huntington Library Quarterly, 80.2 (2017), 293-307 (p. 300).
Sermons ContainedA Sermon preached in St Pauls Church -- pp. 1-42
Sermon Reports Contained
Attached URLs:
| URL | Notes |
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| www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8mw2nvw/dsc/ | Egerton Family Papers online finding aid. |
GEMMS record createdNovember 05, 2019
GEMMS record last editedNovember 18, 2020