GEMMS-Manuscript-ID
GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-1534
Title
Parliamentary speeches and miscellaneous letters
Shelfmark
Harley MS 3791
Creation Date
ca. 1603 - 1641
Repository
Contents Note
A collection of letters, speeches and petitions dating from the reigns of King James I and King Charles I.
Material Features
Folio.
Associated People
Provenance
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.
Source of Data
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, in the British Museum (1808), Vol. III, pp. 79-80; Hannah Yip.
Sermons Contained
Sermon on Psalms 122:8-9 -- ff. 172r-181r
URLs
http://mpese.ac.uk/m/BLHarleyMS3791.html Manuscript Pamphleteering in Early Stuart England entry for British Library, Harley MS 3791.
GEMMS record created
September 17, 2021
GEMMS record last edited
May 17, 2024