GEMMS IDGEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-001468
TitleA book of the Coppies of Letters, Libells & ovther inventions of men
ShelfmarkMS Eng 1015
Creation Dateca. 1580 - 1584
RepositoryHoughton Library
Contents NoteAn autograph folio miscellany of verse, prose, and pen-and-ink drawings. There are sermons, genealogies, booklists, and commentaries about Elizabethan religious controversies. Languages: English and Latin.
Material Features127 leaves. Modern vellum boards.
Associated Peoplemanuscript owner - Batman, Stephan
Provenance
AcquisitionSotheby's, 28 March 1906 and 31 January 1956, lot 408. Purchased with the Amy Lowell fund.
Source of DataCELM; Hannah Yip.
Other NoteThis manuscript is cited in Arnold Hunt, The Art of Hearing: English Preachers and Their Audiences, 1590-1640 (Cambridge, 2010), p. 289 n. 122.
Sermons ContainedA Strainger Sermon by a symple man -- fols. 9v-11rSermon on John 1:6-14 -- fol. 39r-vA note of a Sermon made the 3. daye of Febrvary -- fol. 47r-v
Sermon Reports ContainedSermon on Matthew 7:13 -- f. 69vSermon on Philippians 3:17 -- fol. 79vSermon on Psalms 76:1-3 -- fol. 72rSermon on unidentified text -- fol. 72r
Attached URLs:
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| digitalcollections.library.harvard.edu/catalog/990095845260203941 | Digitised copy of Houghton Library, Harvard, MS Eng 1015. |
GEMMS record createdApril 08, 2021
GEMMS record last editedMay 13, 2021