Cotton MS Vespasian A XXV - Two sixteenth-century sermons

GEMMS Manuscript ID
GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT- 20
(old series: GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-1073)
Title
Two sixteenth-century sermons
Shelfmark
Cotton MS Vespasian A XXV
Creation Date
1400 - 1558
Repository
British Library
Contents Note

This manuscript contains diaries, poems and Tudor songs and ballads, in addition to ‘An Exhortacyon To Cranmer’ written by James Brooks, Bishop of Gloucester (ff. 3r–27r). There is a report of a sermon preached by one ‘P[ar]son Hyberdyne’ (f. 43r–43v) and a sermon on Matthew 18:3 preached by John Stubs at Gloucester in 1559 (ff. 164r-170r). Finally, there is also a manual on confession written in Middle English (ff. 46r–65r) and ‘Regula beati benedicti’, written in Middle English (ff. 66r–119v).

Material Features

Quarto. Modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

Associated People
Provenance

On the opening flyleaves, the following has been written in two different seventeenth century hands: ‘Henry Sauill’ and ‘Ex dono Joh[n] Anstis Arm[iger]’.

Source of Data (Contributor name)

British Library Catalogue; CELM; Hannah Yip.

Sermons Contained
URLs
http://www.celm-ms.org.uk/repositories/british-library-cotton.html Entry for British Library, Cotton MS Vespasian A XXV on CELM.
GEMMS record created
February 16, 2019
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024