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GEMMS IDGEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-001510
TitleCommonplace book of Scriptural questions
ShelfmarkMun. A.2.126
Creation Dateca. 1660 - 1690
RepositoryChetham's Library
Contents NoteCommonplace book of Scriptural questions and compositional notes for sermons. The manuscript is undated.
Material Features
Associated Peoplemanuscript owner - Bailey, Johnmanuscript owner - Henry, Philip
Provenance
AcquisitionPart of the Bailey Collection.
Source of DataChetham's Library online catalogue; Andrew Cambers, 'Reading, the Godly, and Self-Writing in England, circa 1580-1720', Journal of British Studies, 46 (2007), 796-825; Hannah Yip.
Other NoteChetham's Library online catalogue attributes this volume to Matthew Henry. However, Andrew Cambers (2007) attributes this manuscript to his father, Philip. The present cataloguer agrees with Cambers on the basis of the hand in which the volume is written. This volume is also cited in Paula McQuade, Catechisms and Women's Writing in Seventeenth-Century England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017).
Sermons Contained
Sermon Reports ContainedCommonplace book --
GEMMS record createdJuly 07, 2021
GEMMS record last editedJuly 07, 2021