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GEMMS IDGEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-001243
TitleSermon on 2 Samuel 12:13-14
ShelfmarkEL 11636 (35/B/57)
Creation Dateca. 1600 - 1627
Contents NoteThis manuscript contains one anonymous seventeenth-century English sermon on 2 Samuel 12:13-14. There is another manuscript witness of this sermon in Huntington Library, EL 34/C/2.
Material FeaturesQuarto. The manuscript is bound in limp vellum and features the remains of two green ties.
Associated Peoplemanuscript owner - Egerton, Johnmanuscript owner - Huntington, Henrymanuscript owner? - Egerton (née Stanley), Frances
ProvenanceHeidi Brayman Hackel conjectures that this manuscript once belonged to Frances Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater. See Heidi Brayman Hackel, Reading Material in Early Modern England: Print, Gender, and Literacy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), p. 279.
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. 69; 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 createdNovember 07, 2019
GEMMS record last editedDecember 11, 2019