GEMMS IDGEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-000446
TitleFair copy of poems by Henry King
ShelfmarkMS. Eng. poet. e. 30
Creation Dateca. 1657 - 1657
RepositoryBodleian Library
Contents NoteFair copy of poems by Henry King, Bishop of Chichester, with his corrections and additions ff. 9v, 23-5, 40, 49, 53v, 55v-7v, 65v. Includes a sermon on 1 Chronicles 29:15 (ff. 87v-105v). Ff. 5-57v are Thomas Manne's hand.
Material Features109 leaves. Black morocco.
ProvenanceOwned by J. Wilson in the eighteenth century and William Pickering in the nineteenth century.
AcquisitionPurchased from Hodgson's, 12 July 1928, lot 227.
Source of DataJeanne Shami; Bodleian Library New Summary Catalogue, vol. 2.
Other NoteThe poems are printed in Poems (London, 1657) except the four epigrams on ff. 54-55. Also printed in Poems and Psalms, ed. John Hannah (Oxford 1843). Described in The Poems of Henry King, ed. Margaret Crum (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965), pp. 48-53.
Sermons ContainedSermon on 1 Chronicles 29:15 -- ff. 88r-105v
Sermon Reports Contained
GEMMS record createdNovember 25, 2016
GEMMS record last editedSeptember 07, 2021