GEMMS IDGEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-000489
TitleMiscellaneous manuscripts
ShelfmarkMS. North e. 41
Creation Dateca. 1600 - 1699
RepositoryBodleian Library
Contents NoteIncludes a fair copy by Benjamin Agar, page of the king’s chamber in ordinary, of notes on a sermon preached by James Montague, Bishop of Bath and Wells (ff. 142r-151r). The sermon was preached before King James I in 1615. The volume also includes a scribe's copy of poems and prose by Dudley North, 3rd Baron North, with his corrections (printed in A Forest of Varieties [1645]) (ff. 1-89); an Italian report on the election of Pope Urban VIII (ff. 90-139); and (ff. 156-231) a copy of Cardinal Bentivoglio's "Warrs of the Low Countrys' by Cardinal Bentivoglio" (published as The compleat history of the warrs of Flanders [1654]; verse in Crum) (ff. 156-231).
Material Features235 leaves.
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Acquisition
Source of DataJeanne Shami; Bodleian Library New Summary Catalogue, vol. 2
Other Note
Sermons ContainedSermon on Matthew 21:17-19 -- ff. 142-151r
Sermon Reports Contained
GEMMS record createdDecember 14, 2016
GEMMS record last editedOctober 12, 2021