GEMMS IDGEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-000831
TitleTwo sermons by Thomas Newcomen, c. 1660
ShelfmarkPetyt MS. 530 D
Creation Date1660 - 1660
RepositoryInner Temple Library
Contents NoteThis manuscript opens with five blank leaves, followed by a printed catalogue entry which has been pasted in. The rest of the manuscript comprises a dedicatory epistle addressed 'To the greate example of Conjugall & Christian piety. Mrs Sadleir' and dated at Clothall, 9 July 1660; a prayer (two leaves); and two sermons. The manuscript is written in a rather hasty hand, self-described as 'very ragged' in the dedicatory epistle.
Material FeaturesQuarto. Calf binding, featuring the Inner Temple coat of arms on the front and back covers. There are gold gilt edges. The endpapers are marbled. There is a bookplate of the Inner Temple Library on the inside front cover of the volume. The pages have red rulings. Only the sermons are paginated.
Provenance
AcquisitionAlthough this manuscript has been catalogued as a Petyt Manuscript, it was actually presented by Mrs Anne Sadleir, who made the gift in 1661. Her gift was intended as a tribute to her father, Sir Edward Coke, who had studied at Inner Temple. The Petyt Collection was largely bequeathed to the Benchers of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple by William Petyt (1637-1707) in 1707.
Source of DataJ. Conway Davies, ed., Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, Volume I: The Petyt Collection: MSS. 502-533 (Oxford University Press, 1972), p. 330; Hannah Yip
Other NoteArnold Hunt has conjectured that the opening prayer alludes to the regicide, and that these sermons were preached at a private fast in Standon on the anniversary of the execution of King Charles I. See Arnold Hunt, 'The Books, Manuscripts and Literary Patronage of Mrs Anne Sadleir (1585-1670)' in Victoria E. Burke and Jonathan Gibson, eds., Early Modern Women's Manuscript Writing: Selected Papers from the Trinity/Trent Colloquium (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004), pp. 205-236 (pp. 212-213 and 217-219).
Sermon Reports Contained
GEMMS record createdJune 07, 2018
GEMMS record last editedApril 28, 2023