This volume is divided into three sections, or 'books', based on sermons preached by Edmund Calamy the elder. The first book, entitled 'Liber: D: D:D:', contains notes from two sermons (ff. 1r-13r). The second book, entitled 'Liber. E: E:E:', contains notes from four sermons (ff. 14r-37r) . The final book, entitled 'Liber. G: G:', contains notes from two sermons (ff. 38r-90r). Each of the books features their own index.
Quarto. Mottled calf skin with gold-tooled border. ‘M. B.’ is stamped in gold on the front cover. See British Library, Harley MSS 976, 977, 1784, 5068, 5258, 6028, 6208, 6535, 6536, 6538, 6539, 6559, 6568, 6572, and 6946.
This manuscript was sold by John Bagford to Robert Harley (see Tite; link below).
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.
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, in the British Museum (1808), Vol. II, p. 197; Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani (London, 1972); Hannah Yip.
Sermon on Matthew 6:22-23 -- ff. 1r-9v
Sermon on Luke 8:18 -- ff. 9v-13r
Sermon on 1 Corinthians 11:30 -- ff. 14r-18v
Sermon on John 6:56 -- ff. 18v-19r
Sermon on Canticles 1:2 -- ff. 19v-30r
Sermon on Exodus 13:21-22 -- ff. 30r-37r
Sermon on Numbers 21:6-9 -- ff. 38r-53r
Sermon on John 3:14-15 -- ff. 53r-90r