GEMMS IDGEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-001646
TitleCommonplace book of Elias Smyth
ShelfmarkHunter MS 125
Creation Dateca. 1644 - 1668
RepositoryDurham Cathedral Library
Contents NoteNotebook of Elias Smyth, of miscellaneous prose and verse, written in several hands. Contents display Smyth's Royalist sympathies; for example, there are copies of epitaphs for Charles Lucas and George Lisle. Some of the epitaphs for Charles I are written in both red and black ink. There are also notes on the death of Daniel Featley. Epitaphs for Smyth's son, Richard, appear on pp. 133-34. Languages: English, Latin, and Greek.
Material FeaturesOctavo. Bound in a recycled medieval vellum document within contemporary vellum. 170ff.
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. 415; Brian Crosby, A Catalogue of Durham Cathedral Music Manuscripts (Oxford University Press, 1986), p. 80; Hannah Yip.
Other Note
Sermons ContainedDr Donne. Iud.15.20 -- pp. 41-42
Sermon Reports Contained
GEMMS record createdJune 17, 2022
GEMMS record last editedJune 18, 2022