This manuscript contains four sermons by 'Mr Mather'. It is not certain whether the scribe is referring to Cotton or Increase Mather.
Quarto. Mottled calf skin with gold-tooled border. See also British Library, Harley MSS 976, 977, 1753, 5068, 5258, 6028, 6208, 6535, 6536, 6538, 6539, 6559, 6568, 6572, and 6946.
'Henry Barlow his Book' is written on f. 51r.
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.
British Library online catalogue; A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, in the British Museum (1808), Vol. II, p. 227; Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani (London, 1972); Hannah Yip.
A Sermon Preached by Mr Mather December the 24th 1693 -- ff. 1r-17r
Another Sermon preached Decem[ber] 31 1694 [sic] -- ff. 17r-24r
A Sermon Preached by Mr Mather January the 7th 1693/4 -- ff. 24v-35r
A Sermon Preached by Mr Mather Febr: 4th: 1693/4 -- ff. 36r-51r