GEMMS IDGEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-000494
TitlePapers of John Warner
ShelfmarkMS. Eng. th. b. 6
Creation Dateca. 1605 - 1665
RepositoryBodleian Library
Contents NoteLarge collection of mostly sermon notes, with some complete sermons and sermon fragments, by John Warner, Bishop of Rochester. Texts preached on include John, Acts, Romans. One of four volumes of sermon notes created c. 1605-1665 (MSS. Eng. th. b. 4-7). The notes contain additions, deletions, strike-throughs, and other marks indicating they are Warner's preaching notes for these texts.
Material Features237 leaves. Texts are cited in Greek, and it is not always easy to read the chapter and verse preceding it. Some of the papers are so damaged that they have not been included on GEMMS.
Associated Peoplemanuscript owner - Warner, John
Provenance
AcquisitionOne volume from a large collection of Warner's sermons given to the Bodleian in 1955 and 1960 (MSS. Eng. th. b. 4-8, e. 62, e. 176-7; Eng. hist. b. 205; Eng. misc. b. 193-5; Top. gen. c. 75). These volumes also include papers of other members of the Warner family based in Walsingham Abbey, Norfolk, such as legal estate papers.
Source of DataJeanne Shami; Bodleian Library Online Catalogues of Western Manuscripts; Bodleian Library New Summary Catalogue, vol. 2
Other NoteCited in Ian M. Green, Continuity and Change in Protestant Preaching in Early Modern England (London: Dr Williams's Trust, 2009), p. 20 n. 44. See also Mary Morrissey, 'Sermon-Notes and Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Communities', Huntington Library Quarterly, 80.2 (2017), 293-307 (p. 304).
Sermons ContainedSermon on John 1:23 -- ff. 1r-2vSermon 1 on John 1:29 -- ff. 3r-10vSermon 2 on John 1:29 -- ff. 11r-17rSermon 3 on John 1:29 -- ff. 19r-26vSermon 4 on John 1:29 -- ff. 27r-34vSermon 5 on John 1:29 -- f. 35r-vSermon 6 on John 1:29 -- ff. 36r-37vSermon on John 3:5 -- ff. 39r-45vSermon on 1 John 3:18 -- f. 47r-vSermon 1 on John 5:14 -- ff. 48r-51v, 54v-55rSermon 2 on John 5:14 -- ff. 56r-63rSermon 3 on John 5:14 -- ff. 66r-74rSermon 4 on John 5:14 -- f. 77r-vSermon on John 5:19 -- ff. 80r-88avSermon 1 on John 5:39 -- ff. 91r-94rSermon 2 on John 5:39 -- ff. 95r-98rSermon on John 8:46 -- f. 99r-vSermon on John 11:29 -- ff. 100r-107vSermon on John 13:34 -- ff. 108r-112vSermon on John 16:23 -- ff. 118r-121vSermon 1 on John 16:33 -- ff. 122r-125vSermon 2 on John 16:33 -- ff. 126r-127rSermon 1 on John 19:15 -- ff. 128r-135vSermon on unidentified text -- ff. 136r-145vSermon 2 on John 19:15 -- ff. 152r-155vSermon on John 20:12-16 -- f. 156rSermon on Acts 10:34 -- ff. 157r, 158rSermon on Acts 20:28 -- f. 159rSermon 1 on Romans 4:25 -- f. 160r-vSermon 2 on Romans 4:25 -- ff. 162-163vSermon 1 on Romans 6:23 -- ff. 168r-174v (including 171a-b)Sermon 2 on Romans 6:23 -- f. 175r-vSermon on Romans 12:1 -- ff. 176r-177vSermon 1 on Romans 12:2 -- ff. 177r-178rSermon 2 on Romans 12:2 -- ff. 180r-181vSermon 1 on Romans 12:9 -- ff. 182r-187vSermon 2 on Romans 12:9 -- ff. 188r-191vSermon on Romans 12:12 -- ff. 192r-199vSermon on Romans 12:11-12 -- f. 200rSermon on Romans 12:14-15 -- ff. 201r-208vSermon on Romans 12:13 -- ff. 209r-216vSermon on Romans 13 -- ff. 217r-220vSermon on Romans 13:12 -- f. 221r-vSermon on Romans 13:13 -- f. 222r-vSermon on Romans 20:9 -- ff. 223r-229v
Sermon Reports Contained
GEMMS record createdDecember 14, 2016
GEMMS record last editedOctober 12, 2021