GEMMS IDGEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-001245
TitleCertaine Collections of the right hon:ble Elizabeth late Countesse of Huntingdon
ShelfmarkHM 15369
Creation Date1633 - 1633
RepositoryThe Henry E. Huntington Library
Contents NoteDevotional commonplace book of Elizabeth Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon. The full title at the top of f. 1r reads 'Certaine Collections of the right hon:ble Elizabeth late Countesse of Huntingdon for her owne private vse'. This manuscript is not written in the hand of Elizabeth Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, but in a scribal hand in 1633, the year of her death. It is conjectured by Victoria E. Burke that this manuscript may have been prepared shortly after her death as a kind of memorial. This presentation copy comprises prayers, biblical extracts, and meditations collected in previous years by the Countess. See Perdita (link below) for a full description of contents and Victoria E. Burke, ''My Poor Returns': Devotional Manuscripts by Seventeenth-Century Women', Parergon, 29.2 (2012), pp. 47-68 for more information.
Material FeaturesQuarto. Limp vellum binding. The Huntingdon bookplate has been pasted onto the verso of the second flyleaf. In addition, an engraved portrait executed by John Payne (d. c. 1648) has been pasted onto the recto of the third flyleaf. This portrait is sometimes included in I. F., A Sermon Preached at Ashby-de-la-Zouch in the Covntie of Leicester (London, 1635), which was originally delivered at Hastings's funeral.
Associated Peoplemanuscript owner? - Egerton, John
Provenance
Acquisition
Source of DataGuide to British Historical Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, CA: The Huntington Library, 1982), p. 310; Victoria E. Burke, ''My Poor Returns': Devotional Manuscripts by Seventeenth-Century Women', Parergon, 29.2 (2012), pp. 47-68; Hannah Yip
Other NoteWritten in the same scribal hand as Huntington Library, EL 6871 (35/B/8). According to Perdita (see link below), Huntington Library, HM 15369 was probably intended to stay within the Hastings Family, given that it contains a Huntingdon bookplate and an engraving of Elizabeth Hastings.
Sermons ContainedNotes taken out of Dr Andrewes booke of Sermons -- ff. 24r-25r
Sermon Reports Contained
Attached URLs:
| URL | Notes |
|---|---|
| www.ampltd.co.uk/collections_az/RenCpBksHunt/contents-of-reels.aspx | Renaissance Commonplace Books from the Huntington Library (Adam Matthew Digital). |
| web.warwick.ac.uk/english/perdita/html/ms_HUNHM15369.htm | Perdita entry for Huntington Library, HM 15369. |
GEMMS record createdNovember 11, 2019
GEMMS record last editedNovember 11, 2019