GEMMS IDGEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-001235
TitleSermon by Richard Hooker
ShelfmarkEL 8178e (35/B/30)
Creation Dateca. 1586 - 1586
RepositoryThe Henry E. Huntington Library
Contents NoteA presentation copy of a sermon by Richard Hooker, which was later published as A Learned Discovrse of Ivstification (Oxford, 1612).
Material FeaturesQuarto. Bound in gold-tooled limp vellum.
Associated Peoplemanuscript owner - Egerton, Johnmanuscript owner - Egerton, Johnmanuscript owner - Huntington, Henrymanuscript owner? - Egerton, Thomas
ProvenanceThis manuscript belongs to the Domestic and Personal Papers of John Egerton, Second Earl of Bridgewater, who wrote 'M:r Hooker' in the top right-hand corner of f. 1r. In addition, the volume may have previously belonged to Bridgewater's grandfather, Sir 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.
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. 54; W. Speed Hill [general editor], The Folger Library Edition of The Works of Richard Hooker, Volume 5 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990), pp. 83-170; Corneliu C. Simut, Richard Hooker and his Early Doctrine of Justification (Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005); 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.
Sermons ContainedSermon on Habakkuk 1:4 -- ff. 1r-50r
Sermon Reports Contained
Attached URLs:
| URL | Notes |
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| www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8mw2nvw/dsc/ | Egerton Family Papers online finding aid. |
GEMMS record createdNovember 06, 2019
GEMMS record last editedNovember 07, 2019