GEMMS IDGEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-000858
TitleFour sermons, c. 1588
ShelfmarkMS 38.F.22
Creation Date1588 - 1588
RepositorySt. Paul's Cathedral Library
Contents NoteA volume of four Easter sermons preached in 1588, written predominantly in a secretary hand. On the front cover, the following has been written in a contemporary hand: "1588. 4 Sermons viz: Dr Bright on good Fryday 5 Apr: 1588 at P: Crosse &c". The first sermon was preached at Paul's Cross on Good Friday, 5 April 1588, by Dr Bright; the remaining sermons were preached at St Mary Spital on 8-10 April 1588 by Dr Bisse, Dr Powell, and Lancelot Andrewes, respectively. It is conjectured by Peter McCullough that the first three sermons were preached by Arthur Bright, Philip Bisse, and either William or David Powell. McCullough further notes that the four sermons "combine exhortation to almsgiving, warnings to the rich, and rejoinders to Roman Catholicism, in what had become a conventional Spital formula" (see McCullough, 2005, pp. 463-464).
Material FeaturesSmall folio (258 × 175mm). Bound in vellum. 67 leaves, each of which has been pricked in pencil for lineation. All margins have been double-ruled with red ink. The endleaves are glued to the inside front covers.
Associated Peoplemanuscript owner - Fane, John
ProvenanceThe front paste-down bears the bookplate of "The Earl of Westmoreland 1856'"[i.e. John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland]. There is also a nineteenth-century St Paul's bookplate directly underneath it.
Acquisition
Source of DataPeter McCullough, ed., Lancelot Andrewes: Selected Sermons and Lectures (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005); Hannah Yip
Other NoteSee Peter McCullough, ed., Lancelot Andrewes: Selected Sermons and Lectures (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 304-305 and 462-466 for more information on this manuscript. This MS was discovered in 2004 by Mary Morrissey. A conservative transcription of Andrewes' sermon in this MS is published in the aforementioned edition by Peter McCullough; see Appendix 1, pp. 243-264.
Sermons ContainedA sermon preached at Paules crosse on Good fridaye Aprilis 5. 1588. By Mr Bright -- ff. 1r-16vA sermon preached at the Spittell one mundaye in Easter week Aprilis 8 1588. By Mr Doct: Bisse -- ff. 17r-34rA sermon preached at the Spittell one Tewesdaye in Easter weeke 1588 Aprilis 9 by Mr Doctor Powell -- ff. 35r-50vA sermon preached at the spittle by Mr Andrewes the wednesday in Easter weeke. April. 10. 1588. -- ff. 51r-67r
Sermon Reports Contained
GEMMS record createdJuly 05, 2018
GEMMS record last editedOctober 31, 2023