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GEMMS IDGEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-001642
TitleMiscellaneous tracts
ShelfmarkHunter MS 140
Creation Date1609 - 1652
Contents NoteA bundle of miscellaneous tracts, chiefly in the hand of Isaac Basire, concerning the sacraments and the trinity. There are also some notes on ecclesiastical matters in Poland, Lithuania, and Hungary, in addition to a tract in Arabic. Languages: Latin, Arabic, and English.
Material FeaturesThese (mainly octavo) tracts are not bound together.
Associated Peoplemanuscript owner - Basire, Isaacmanuscript owner - Hunter, Christopher
Provenance
AcquisitionThe Hunter Manuscripts were purchased by the Dean and Chapter of Durham in 1756 for forty guineas.
Source of DataThomas Rud, Codicum Manuscriptorum Ecclesiae Cathedralis Dunelmensis Catalogus Classicus (Durham, 1825), p. 417; Hannah Yip.
Other NoteThe tenth item is described by Thomas Rud as a sermon (see Rud, p. 417). However, this item appears to be constructed more as a theological argument as opposed to a sermon. The GEMMS database records instead the eleventh item in Hunter MS 140. Although it is called a 'meditation', it appears to address a congregation and is structured, like a sermon, around a single text.
Sermon Reports Contained
GEMMS record createdJune 09, 2022
GEMMS record last editedJune 18, 2022