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On paper, ii + 100 leaves, 7 5/8 x 5 inches. Each sermon is written in a different hand.

On paper

The two sermons and the bidding prayer are all written in the same hand.

A very large folio bound in calf, ii + 966 pages. A beautiful volume with gold leaf lettering to initial letters (in headings) in some sections. Much repair work done. Inscribed with "S. D. V." and dated 27 April 1653. The text is divided into ruled compartments. Decorated with pen work and cuttings from illuminated manuscripts and printed books. Includes coloured initials and contemporary annotations in various hands.

128 pages. Middle Hill boards.

Paper, vi + 84 pages, 13 x 8 1/2 inches.

Four manuscripts collected into one volume. Paper, 220 leaves, 8 3/10 x 6 1/10 inches. Written in various 17th-century hands.

i + 17 leaves

A beautiful and carefully written manuscript, 8 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches, xii + 178 leaves. Blank on ff. 171v-176v, but with red ink border. The Donne sermons are not written in his hand; Potter and Simpson note that there are no known extant autograph manuscripts of Donne's sermons. This volume probably written partly by a professional scribe and partly by a rubricator, the latter presumably being the source of the decorative rectangular and circular borders around the text, and other decorative additions, in red ink. The volume was written in the early seventeenth century. The upper cover is made of contemporary calf. The initials of the 17th-century owner, H.F., appear in a large, gilt-tooled lozenge in the centre of the cover, on modern calf binding. The text is written mostly in a single unidentified hand, identified by Potter and Simpson as a "secretary" or "English" hand.

On paper.

i + 126 leaves. Folios 42-115 are blank.

Most of the sermons were copied by a scribe and then revised and corrected for the press by Hickes. The Summary Catalogue notes that only the last sermon (f. 315) is in Hickes' hand. 334 leaves.

142 leaves, ff. 129-142 blank.

254 leaves

Paper, xx + 842 pages, 8 3/8 x 6 5/8 inches. P. 582 is treble. Keble's pagination mistakenly jumps from p. 656 to p. 667; starting on that page, the library has added its own pagination continuing the original sequence. The library's pagination is referred to here for entries between p. 657 and the end of the manuscript. Sermons on the same Bible text are cross-referenced in the margin. Keble's sprawling hand is often difficult to decipher, although it is consistent throughout. Many pages have a large tear close to the margin.