GEMMS IDGEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-001280
TitleNotebook of grammatical and other items
ShelfmarkHarley MS 6472
Creation Dateca. 1692 - 1710
RepositoryBritish Library
Contents NoteNotebook, containing grammatical and other items. Languages include English, Latin and Greek.
Material FeaturesOctavo. Eighteenth-century mottled calf binding. 93 folios.
ProvenanceOwned and partly written by Obadiah Oddy.
AcquisitionThe Harleian Library was founded by Robert Harley, First Earl of Oxford (1661-1724). According to Cyril Ernest Wright, Robert Harley ‘was primarily interested in English historical and political material and in volumes of sermons and theological controversy, sharing in the latter the taste of his Harley ancestors’. See Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani (London, 1972), p. xxxiv.
Source of DataA Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, in the British Museum (1808), Vol. III, pp. 368; Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani (London, 1972); Hannah Yip.
Other NoteThe contents of this manuscript are fully described on the British Library online catalogue.
Sermons ContainedSermon on Hebrews 11:14 -- ff. 43r-65v
Sermon Reports Contained
Attached URLs:
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| hviewer.bl.uk/IamsHViewer/Default.aspx?mdark=ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x00001c | British Library, Harley Manuscripts Finding Aid. |
GEMMS record createdFebruary 15, 2020
GEMMS record last editedOctober 25, 2020