GEMMS: Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons
GEMMS IDGEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-000943
TitleSermons
ShelfmarkMS 52.D.60.01
Creation Dateca. 1631 -
Contents NoteThis volume contains three sermons in different hands. After the first two sermons, there is a Latin tract dated June 1632 (15 leaves, unfoliated and unpaginated). Following this tract is an ad clerum sermon.
Material FeaturesOctavo. Leather binding. The pages have red ruled lines. The bookplate of St. Paul's Cathedral Library can be found on the inside front cover.
Associated Peoplemanuscript owner - Ansell, Tho[mas]manuscript owner - Bridge, manuscript owner - Burgess, Johnmanuscript owner - Button, Godfreymanuscript owner - Paiment, Robertmanuscript owner - Stutevelle, Thomas
ProvenanceOn the front flyleaves, the following names are written in seventeenth-century hands: 'Bridge'; 'John Burgess'; and 'Godfrey Button'. On the end flyleaf, the following is written: 'Robert Paiment his Booke 1649'; 'Thomas Stutevelle his Booke 1649'; and 'Tho: Ansell his Booke 1649'. 'Godfrey Button' has also written his name on the endleaf.
Acquisition
Source of DataHannah Yip
Other NoteFor an analysis of the first sermon by Joseph Naylor, see Mary Morrissey, Politics and the Paul's Cross Sermons, 1558-1642 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 153-154. It is also cited in Mary Morrissey, 'Sermon-Notes and Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Communities', Huntington Library Quarterly, 80.2 (2017), 293-307 (p. 300 n. 27).
Sermon Reports Contained
GEMMS record createdOctober 23, 2018
GEMMS record last editedNovember 18, 2020