GEMMS IDGEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-000829
TitleFour anonymous sermons
ShelfmarkPetyt MS. 531 B
Creation Dateca. 1638 -
RepositoryInner Temple Library
Contents NoteA volume of four sermons, written in an unusual, spidery hand. Both the scribe and the preacher are unknown. The sermons are preceded by one blank leaf, followed by a printed catalogue entry which has been pasted in.
The four sermons are on pp. 1-82. There is a blank leaf between pp. 34 and 35. After p. 82, there are four blank leaves, followed by 'A Relation of ye desperat estate of Frances Spira in ye yeere 1548.' (22 pages). This work, authored by Nathaniel Bacon, was first printed in 1638. The MS version in this volume is incomplete.
Material FeaturesQuarto. Calf binding, featuring the Inner Temple coat of arms on the front and back covers. There are gold gilt edges. The endpapers are marbled. There is a bookplate of the Inner Temple Library on the inside front cover of the volume.
ProvenanceAt the beginning of the volume is the cancelled signature 'Marie Chace'.
AcquisitionAlthough this manuscript has been catalogued as a Petyt Manuscript, it was actually presented by Mrs Anne Sadleir, who made the gift in 1661. Her gift was intended as a tribute to her father, Sir Edward Coke, who had studied at Inner Temple. The Petyt Collection was largely bequeathed to the Benchers of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple by William Petyt (1637-1707) in 1707.
Source of DataJ. Conway Davies, ed., Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, Volume I: The Petyt Collection: MSS. 502-533 (Oxford University Press, 1972), pp. 331-332; Hannah Yip
Other NoteSee also Arnold Hunt, 'The Books, Manuscripts and Literary Patronage of Mrs Anne Sadleir (1585-1670)' in Victoria E. Burke and Jonathan Gibson, eds, Early Modern Women's Manuscript Writing: Selected Papers from the Trinity/Trent Colloquium (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004), pp. 205-236 (p. 234). Judging by the date of Nathaniel Bacon's work (1638), which is transcribed at the end of the volume, it is conjectured by the present cataloguer that the volume dates from the late 1630s, and not, as is suggested by Davies, the 'early part of the second half of the sixteenth century' (p. 331). For Francis Spira, see M. A. Overell, 'Recantation and Retribution: 'Remembering Francis Spira', 1548-1638', Studies in Church History, 40 (2004), pp. 159-168.
Sermons ContainedSermon on Luke 15:10 -- pp. 1-16Sermon on Psalms 42:5 -- pp. 17-34Sermon on Psalms 84:5 -- pp. 35-58Sermon on Psalms 97:10 -- pp. 59-82
Sermon Reports Contained
GEMMS record createdJune 06, 2018
GEMMS record last editedApril 28, 2023