GEMMS IDGEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-001244
TitleCertaine Collections of the Right hon:ble Elizabeth late Countesse of Huntingdon
ShelfmarkEL 6871 (35/B/8)
Creation Date1633 - 1633
RepositoryThe Henry E. Huntington Library
Contents NoteThe full title of the manuscript is as follows: 'Certaine Collections of the Right hon:ble Elizabeth late Countesse of Huntingdon for her owne private vse'. This manuscript is not written in the hand of Elizabeth Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, but in a scribal hand in 1633, the year of her death. It is conjectured by Victoria E. Burke that this manuscript may have been prepared shortly after her death as a kind of memorial. This presentation copy comprises prayers, biblical extracts, and meditations collected in previous years by the Countess. See Perdita (link below) for a full description of contents and Victoria E. Burke, ''My Poor Returns': Devotional Manuscripts by Seventeenth-Century Women', Parergon, 29.2 (2012), pp. 47-68 for more information.
Material FeaturesQuarto. Limp vellum binding. Pages have been gnawed at the fore-edges.
Associated Peoplemanuscript owner - Egerton, Johnmanuscript owner - Egerton, Johnmanuscript owner - Huntington, Henry
Provenance
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), pp. 48 and 310; Victoria E. Burke, ''My Poor Returns': Devotional Manuscripts by Seventeenth-Century Women', Parergon, 29.2 (2012), pp. 47-68; Mary Morrissey, 'Sermon-Notes and Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Communities', Huntington Library Quarterly, 80.2 (2017), 293-307 (p. 302 n. 38); 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 ContainedNotes taken out of Dr Andrewes booke of Sermons -- ff. 26v-27v
Sermon Reports Contained
Attached URLs:
| URL | Notes |
|---|---|
| web.warwick.ac.uk/english/perdita/html/ms_HUNEL6871.htm | Perdita entry for Huntington Library, EL 6871 (35/B/8). |
| www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8mw2nvw/dsc/ | Egerton Family Papers online finding aid. |
GEMMS record createdNovember 11, 2019
GEMMS record last editedNovember 18, 2020