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GEMMS IDGEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-001221
TitleMr Kinges Sermon before his Maty at Otelandes
ShelfmarkEL 1151 (34/B/36)
Creation Date1604 - 1604
Contents NoteThis manuscript contains one presentation copy of 'Mr Kinges Sermon before his Maty at Otelandes' and is dated July 1604. Peter McCullough attributes this sermon to Geoffrey King (c. 1567-1630). See the accompanying diskette to Peter E. McCullough, Sermons at Court: Politics and religion in Elizabethan and Jacobean preaching (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).
Material FeaturesQuarto. Parchment binding.
Associated Peoplemanuscript owner - Egerton, Johnmanuscript owner - Egerton, Thomasmanuscript owner - Huntington, Henry
ProvenanceThis manuscript was in the collection of Lord Chancellor Thomas Egerton (1540-1617).
AcquisitionThe Bridgewater House Library was purchased by Henry E. Huntington from John Francis Granville Scrope Egerton, Fourth Earl of Ellesmere, in 1917. This manuscript's former shelfmark was 'Egerton MS D.3.6.'.
Source of DataEgerton Family Papers online finding aid (see link below); Guide to British Historical Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, CA: The Huntington Library, 1982), p. 31; Hannah Yip.
Other NoteSee Guide to British Historical Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, CA: The Huntington Library, 1982), pp. 21-25 for more information about the Ellesmere Collection.
Sermon Reports Contained
Attached URLs:
URLNotes
www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8mw2nvw/dsc/Egerton Family Papers online finding aid.
GEMMS record createdOctober 30, 2019
GEMMS record last editedNovember 18, 2020