GEMMS IDGEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-001147
TitleA collection of miscellaneous religious works
ShelfmarkHarley MS 6539
Creation Dateca. 1580 - 1630
RepositoryBritish Library
Contents NoteThis volume comprises the following: ‘Sinnes agaynst the [Ten Commandments]’ (ff. 1r–3r); an abstract of Lewis Bayly, The Practice of Piety (London, 1616) (ff. 4r–30v); ‘Annotatyons out of the Stewards last account written by Mr Bagnall minister of Hutton in Somerset shire’ (ff. 31r–41v); ‘A Right, Godlye, and Fruitfull Dialogue between a Sorrowfull Sinner, and Gods word comforting him’ (ff. 41v–44v); ‘David’s ultimum vale to his dead son’, an autograph funeral sermon by John Firmin (ff. 45r–59v); ‘A Caueat for Crab-Fish Christians’ (ff. 60v–75r); and ‘The Sacred Discipline of the Church described in the worde of God’ (ff. 76r–86v). For more information about the final item, see Patrick Collinson, Richard Bancroft and Elizabethan Anti-Puritanism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), ch. 6. Items two and three appear to be written in the same hand. The manuscript has been dated by the present cataloguer according to the hands in the volume.
Material FeaturesQuarto. Mottled calf skin with gold-tooled border. See also British Library, Harley MSS 976, 977, 1753, 1784, 5068, 5258, 6028, 6208, 6535, 6536, 6538, 6559, 6568, 6572, and 6946.
Associated Peoplemanuscript owner - Harley, Robert
Provenance
AcquisitionThe Harleian Library was founded by Robert Harley, First Earl of Oxford (1661–1724). According to Cyril Ernest Wright, Robert Harley ‘was primarily interested in English historical and political material and in volumes of sermons and theological controversy, sharing in the latter the taste of his Harley ancestors’. See Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani (London, 1972), p. xxxiv.
Source of DataCyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani (London, 1972); A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, in the British Museum (1808), Vol. III, p. 374; Hannah Yip.
Other Note
Sermons ContainedAnnotatyons out of the Stewards last account [1] -- ff. 31r–34vAnnotatyons out of the Stewards last account [2] -- ff. 34v–36rAnnotatyons out of the Stewards last account [3] -- ff. 36r–38rAnnotatyons out of the Stewards last account [4] -- ff. 38r–40rAnnotatyons out of the Stewards last account [5] -- ff. 40r–41vDavid’s ultimum vale to his dead son -- ff. 45r–59v
Sermon Reports Contained
GEMMS record createdMay 29, 2019
GEMMS record last editedDecember 18, 2021