Stowe MS 45 - Two Sermons on Prayer and the Sacraments

GEMMS Manuscript ID
GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT- 14
(old series: GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-1031)
Title
Two Sermons on Prayer and the Sacraments
Shelfmark
Stowe MS 45
Creation Date
ca. 1680 - 1700
Repository
Contents Note

This manuscript contains two sermons on prayer and on the sacraments.

Material Features

Duodecimo.

Acquisition

The Stowe collection of manuscripts held at the British Library is named after Stowe House, where the library was assembled by Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, First Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1776-1839). The collection was subsequently purchased by Bertram Ashburnham, Fourth Earl of Ashburnham. His son sold the collection to Parliament; following which, it was deposited in the British Museum, with the exception of the manuscripts which were of Irish interest, which were deposited in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin.

Source of Data

British Library online catalogue; Hannah Yip.

Other Note

Written in the same small mixed secretary and italic hand throughout. The present cataloguer is uncertain about the BL’s suggested dating of this manuscript to the early eighteenth century. Owing to the style of the handwriting and spelling conventions, the late seventeenth century seems to be a more accurate parameter.

Sermons Contained
URLs
http://www.bl.uk/collection-guides/stowe-manuscripts Information about the Stowe manuscripts on the British Library web page.
GEMMS record created
January 30, 2019
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024