GEMMS IDGEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-001258
TitleCertaine Collections of the Right Hon:ble Elizabeth late Countesse of Huntingdon
ShelfmarkThe Hastings Collection, Religious Box 2, Folder 8
Creation Date1633 - 1633
RepositoryThe Henry E. Huntington Library
Contents NoteThis manuscript was compiled by an anonymous scribe after Hastings' death, like EL 6871, HM 15369 and Hastings Collection, Literature Box 1, Folder 6 (all in the Henry E. Huntington Library). Each of these four manuscripts is written in the same anonymous scribal hand. 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, mutilated. Presentation copy.
Provenance
AcquisitionThe Hastings Collection was purchased by the Huntington Library in January 1927 from Maggs Bros. of London, who had acquired the papers from Edith Maud Abney-Hastings, Countess of Loudoun.
Source of DataGuide to British Historical Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1982), pp. 78-82 and 138-139; Henry E. Huntington Library Hastings Manuscripts, ed. by Kim Watson (List & Index Record Society, 1987), p. 287; Hannah Yip.
Other NoteThe Hastings Collection contains 50,000 items and is the family archive for the Earls of Huntingdon, dating from 1100 to the 1890s.
Sermons ContainedNotes taken out of Dr Andrewes Booke of Sermons -- ff. 25v-26v
Sermon Reports Contained
Attached URLs:
| URL | Notes |
|---|---|
| web.warwick.ac.uk/english/perdita/html/ | Perdita entry for HA Religious Box 2 (8). |
| oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8d2200p/entire_text/ | Hastings Family Papers online finding aid. |
GEMMS record createdDecember 11, 2019
GEMMS record last editedDecember 12, 2019