GEMMS IDGEMMS-REPORT-000049
Report TitleSermon Diary of Thomas Crosfield (descriptive title)
In ManuscriptDiary of Thomas Crosfield
Extent
Composition Dateca. 1626 - 1653
Primary LanguageEnglish
Report Type(s)Preacher's Sermon Diary
Bible Texts
Print Editions / WitnessesSelections from the diary are edited by F. Boas in The Diary of Thomas Crosfield (London: Oxford UP, Humphrey Milford, 1935).
DescriptionA thorough account of the manuscript and its contents is provided in the Introduction to The Diary of Thomas Crosfield, ed. F. Boas (London: Oxford UP, Humphrey Milford, 1935), pp. ix-xi. The handwriting is minuscule and almost impossible to read, what Boas terms a "crabbed hand" (p. x), with the ink smudged throughout. The introduction to the printed selections also contains information about the university, Queen's College, the Crosfield family, and other contextual material.
Source of DataJeanne Shami
Other NoteBoas indicates (p. x) that complete sermons in the hand of Matthew Hutchinson, vicar of East Cowton in Yorkshire, occupy ff. 179-228 at the end of the volume, but also occupy ff. 97-137, and are thus interpolated between the main part of the diary (covering the years 1626-1638 primarily) and Crosfield's notes on books.
GEMMS record createdDecember 24, 2017
GEMMS record last editedMay 11, 2022