GEMMS: Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons
GEMMS IDGEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-000758
TitleSermons, 1655, Jan-Jul.
ShelfmarkOsborn b362
Creation Date1654 - 1655
Contents NoteThe manuscript includes 15 sermons: the first seven on Exodus 20:17, the next three on Ecclesiastes 12:13, one on Lamentations 3:40, and, finally, four on Luke 11:1-2.
Material FeaturesThe sermons are written in a secretary’s hand. The full manuscript is ca. 200 pages (18x11cm).
Associated Peoplemanuscript owner - Towill, E.
ProvenanceFront flyleaf stamped: Ex libris E. S. Towill.
AcquisitionCataloguer lists Hugh Rawlins as the creator of this manuscript.
Source of DataDavid Robinson; Beinecke Digital Collections; Kathryn James, English Paleography and Manuscript Culture, 1500-1800 (New Haven, CT and London, 2020), p. 154
Other NoteObject ID: 2033645. Only the first page of one of the sermons on Exodus 20:17 is digitized. The cataloguer’s description notes that it is intended as a palaeography teaching resource.
Sermon Reports Contained
Attached URLs:
URLNotes
https://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3440757URL for digitized pages of sermon on Exodus 20:17. At Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
GEMMS record createdFebruary 21, 2018
GEMMS record last editedJune 23, 2022