Harley MS 976 - Collections from Sev[er]all Sermons

GEMMS Manuscript ID
GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT- 107
(old series: GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-1479)
Title
Collections from Sev[er]all Sermons
Shelfmark
Harley MS 976
Creation Date
ca. 1600 - 1625
Repository
British Library
Contents Note

This volume contains notes from several sermons, written in the hand of Michael Foster. Foster may have been based near Cambridge, as he notes several funeral sermons delivered there, including that of Dr Thomas Playfere. The manuscript has been dated according to the preaching dates of these particular funeral sermons. Languages: English and Latin.

Material Features

Quarto. Mottled calf skin with gold-tooled border. See also British Library, Harley MSS 977, 1753, 1784, 5068, 5258, 6028, 6208, 6535, 6536, 6538, 6539, 6559, 6568, 6572, and 6946.

Associated People
Provenance

The name 'Michaell Foster' is written at the top of f. 1r.

Acquisition

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 Wright, p. xxxiv.

Source of Data (Contributor name)

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, in the British Museum (1808), Vol. I, p. 405; Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani (London, 1972); Hannah Yip.

Sermons Contained
URLs
GEMMS record created
May 7, 2021
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024