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Small notebook, in a small, cramped hand. Pages are unfoliated and unpaginated.

Small notebook, in a small, cramped hand. Pages are unfoliated and unpaginated. Most of the pages are written in two halves (top and bottom), which run in opposite directions to be read front to back and then back to front.

Small notebook containing a rebound portion of a sermon notebook in an extremely small hand. Pages numbered 41-56, followed by blank pages. A title page in an alternate hand has been added with biographical information and the title “A Sermon of the Apostle Eliot of Roxbury.”

Two notebooks, written in a small, neat hand. Pagination added at a later date in both notebooks, though less consistent in the second notebook, and both are written so that the sermon notes run in reverse for a portion of the notebook. In reverse is determined by the pagination rather than the chronology. Mary Danforth written in both notebooks and "notes of sermons principally by Rev. John Eliot of Roxbury & his son Benj. Eliot" included on the cover of the first notebook.

Octavo volume, 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches. Bound in vellum. Written in a very clear neat hand. There is a note on the fly leaf: “The gift of my Father to me Mary Aldersley May ye 11th 1695”. On the following page there is a further inscription: “note, that following sermons, though here put all together, yet were delivered by Mr. Sherrad at distant times, in ten years space, in his ordinary course. And therefore it is not to be thought strange, if (all tending to one subject) the same matters & heads of Discourse do sometimes recur. But it will be found, on several of them, that though the same matters be in several sermons, yet they are, for the most part, if not always, variously & differently treated of & inlarged upon”.

Octavo volume, 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches. Bound in vellum with original clasps.

A leather bound octavo volume of 340 numbered pages, with some incorrect pagination. Bound at the top of the volume. There is a 3 page index stitched in to the end of the volume. Written in a large rough hand.

One small notebook, rebound and written in an extremely small, neat hand. Contains a partial manuscript of sermon notes, bound with accounts for 1710-1711 and an added biographical note written by John Sparhawk Appleton of Salem, Massachusetts. Heavy commonplacing in the margins with minor editing in the text of the sermon note.

One small notebook, written in a neat hand. Many pages do not include full text coverage, especially in the first third of the notebook, and there are minor cross out and edits in the notes. Josiah Flint written on fly leaf.

One notebook with unattached covers, one of which is missing, and water damage. Written in a small hand, and the leaves are numbered rather than the pages.

QP1: Edmund Quincy (1681-1739)–Commonplace book, ca. 1694-1709. One notebook containing sermon notes written in a neat hand, alongside copied sections of texts, letters, and orations, much of which is written in Latin.

Bound in vellum.

A small leather bound notebook, there is some fraying to the binding but it remains in good condition overall. The paper is in very good condition throughout. There are some incorrectly numbered pages - after p.126 the page numbering jumps backward to p.124, p.305 is duplicated and pp.236-237 and 240-241 are accidentally written as pp.336-337 and 340-341.The final 5 pages are in reverse - these appear to be sermon notes but there are no identifying markers of date etc. There are page numbers which are original to the MS, with c.363 pages in total.

Main hand and annotating hand similar to Bodl.Ms.Eng.e.2763 (also Saltmarsh's sermons).
Gilt-stamped calf-bound volume, labelled 'Sermons.'

MS of 354 pages.
12 quires of paper, stitched at spine, three leather straps.

No binding.

Multiple scribal hands (does not appear to be autographs by individual authors)

A small leather bound notebook, there is some fraying to the binding but it remains in good condition overall. The paper is in very good condition throughout. There are some missing pages - two thirds of pp.97/98 and pp.99/200 are missing and appear to have been torn out of the MS. There are page numbers which are original to the MS, with c.379 pages in total.

198 leaves.

Bound in limp vellum with remnants of green silk ties; evidence of old shelfmark tag on cover.

Multiple items in multiple hands stitched together into a quarto-size volume, paper binding.

Small rebound notebook written in a small, neat hand. The first page of the notebook includes a partial index list of sermons and the note "Hugh Hall his Book began February 3th wch was Lector day anno Domini 1708/9." Pages 16-23 seem to have been trimmed.

Small notebook, written in a small cramped hand with minor editing and deletions. Unpaginated and unfoliated, with one section written in reverse. The dates of the sermons do not follow a chronological sequence.