A collection of sermons, principally preached at funerals, in fair copies, written in at least two different hands and bound together in one folio volume. There is an ‘Index’ (i.e. a table of contents) on f. 1v. The scribes do not appear to have included the eulogies to the deceased.
Folio. Mottled calf skin with gold-tooled border. ‘M. B.’ is stamped in gold on the front cover. See British Library, Harley MSS 976, 977, 1753, 1784, 5068, 5258, 6028, 6208, 6535, 6536, 6538, 6539, 6559, 6572, and 6946.
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. III, p. 343; Hannah Yip.
Mr Calamy At the funerall of Mris Palmer Jan 20th 1652 -- ff. 15r-16v
Mr Calamy At young Mris Nimms her funerall 30th July 1651 -- ff. 17r-18v
Mr Calamy: At Mris Willington her funerall July 31. 1651 -- ff. 18v-20v
Mr Calamy at a funerall 19 Decembris A[nn]o 1650 -- ff. 25r-26r
Mr Calamy 22 July 1652 at Mr Lee’s Daughters funerall -- ff. 27r-28r
Mr Calamy at the funerall of Mr Laurence, Aprill 26: 1650 -- ff. 29r-30v
Mr Calamy June the 10th 1649 -- ff. 33r-34v
A funerall sermon preached by Mr Calamy 16th March 1648 -- ff. 39r-40r