GEMMS IDGEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-000570
TitleCollection of Sermons and Recipes
ShelfmarkMS 1023B
Creation Dateca. 1620 - 1799
RepositoryNational Library of Wales
Contents NoteThe volume comprises sermons by R. W. (c. 1620), medical recipes in Welsh (1712), a Latin treatise on logic, and an English translation of a Latin stanza. The recipes are interspersed in a large, more modern, hand throughout the volume in margins and on blank leaves as well as in sections at the front and back of the manuscript. The sermons form by far the largest portion of the manuscript and appear to be preachers' drafts, complete with revisions, insertions, deletions, cross-throughs, and other marks of authorship. A list of sermons by R. W. is written on p. 20. in pencil beside this list are written the page numbers marking the beginning of each sermon in the manuscript. The list does not entirely coincide with the contents of the manuscript but is a good guide.
Material FeaturesThis is a quarto volume, in a NLW leather binding.
Associated Peoplemanuscript owner - Owen, Ellis
ProvenanceThis manuscript was originally volume 26 of the Ellis Owen manuscripts.
Acquisition
Source of DataJeanne Shami
Other NoteEllis Owen (in 1820) dated the sermons to c. 1620 based on their allusions to the behaviour of James 1 to Frederick, King of Bohemia. Such allusions would indeed date the sermons no earlier than 1620 (when Frederick accepted the kingship), but one sermon in the manuscript was preached in February 1640, making the date range 1620-1640 more accurate for the collection as a whole. Closer examination of the contents of these sermons would allow for more precise dating of particular sermons, and, of course, it is entirely possible that someone other than R. W. preached these sermons later, adapting them to their current circumstances.
Sermons ContainedSermon on Romans 13:3-4 -- pp. 22-31Sermon on Romans 13:4-5 -- pp. 32-42Sermon on Romans 13:8-10 -- pp. 44-60Sermon on Romans 13:11-12 -- pp. 62-77Sermon on Romans 13:11 -- pp. 78-93Sermon 1 on Romans 13:12 -- pp. 94-107Sermon 2 on Romans 13:12 -- pp. 108-123Sermon 1 on Romans 13:13 -- pp. 124-140Sermon 2 on Romans 13:13 -- pp. 140-157Sermon 1 on Romans 13:14 -- p. 158Sermon 2 on Romans 13:14 -- p. 159-178Sermon 3 on Romans 13:14 -- p. 179-180Sermon 1 on Psalms 51:2 -- pp. 180-195Sermon 2 on Psalms 51:2 -- pp. 196-203Sermon on Ephesians 2:4-7 -- pp. 208-218Sermon on 1 Corinthians 11:1 -- pp. 218-226Sermon on Romans 11:19 -- pp. 230-237
Sermon Reports Contained
GEMMS record createdApril 20, 2017
GEMMS record last editedDecember 02, 2021