An octavo manuscript containing notes of sermons, memoranda, and accounts. The contents range from a description of the colours of the flags of different countries (ff. 7r–7v), anti-Catholic writing (f. 7v), ‘The Constellations as they stand in ye North Hemespheer of Heaven’ (with drawings; ff. 9v–15r), a short series of notes in Latin on ‘Dr Donne’, although it is not clear which works he has used (f. 32r). Edward Beaver was a keen auditor and attended a series of sermons delivered by extremely distinguished clergymen in Lent 1673.
Octavo.
The Harleian Library was founded by Robert Harley, First Earl of Oxford (1661–1724). According to Cyril Ernest Wright, Robert Harley ‘was primarily interested in English historical and political material and in volumes of sermons and theological controversy, sharing in the latter the taste of his Harley ancestors’. See Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani (London, 1972), p. xxxiv.
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, in the British Museum (1808), Vol. II, p. 651; Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani (London, 1972); Hannah Yip.
Sermon on Psalms 51:17 -- ff. 16r–16v
Sermon on Romans 8:13 -- ff. 17r–17v
Sermon on Acts (chapter and verse not specified) -- ff. 18r–18v
Sermon on 1 John 5:3 -- ff. 18v–19v
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 12:1 -- ff. 19v–20r
Sermon on Psalms 49:13 -- ff. 20v–21v
Sermon on Proverbs 3:17 -- ff. 22r–23r
Sermon on Luke 1:28 -- ff. 23v–24r
Sermon on Ephesians 5:16 -- ff. 24v–25v
Sermon on 1 Corinthians 3:18 -- ff. 25v
Sermon on Hebrews 6:1 -- ff. 26r–v
Sermon on Ephesians 4:30 -- ff. 26v–27v
Sermon on 1 Kings 21:29 -- f. 28r