Harley MS 5258 - Dauids teares

GEMMS Manuscript ID
GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT- 127
(old series: GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-1536)
Title
Dauids teares
Shelfmark
Harley MS 5258
Creation Date
ca. 1600 - 1660
Repository
Contents Note

A sermon on Psalms 56:8, with prayers before and after the sermon. In the Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (p. 256), it is indicated that the sermon was delivered by a 'Mr. Peake'; however, the present cataloguer has not been able to find this name inscribed anywhere in the volume.

Material Features

38pp. Quarto. Mottled calf skin with gold-tooled border. See also British Library, Harley MSS 976, 977, 1753, 1784, 5068, 6028, 6208, 6535, 6536, 6538, 6539, 6559, 6568, 6572, and 6946.

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 (Contributor name)

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, in the British Museum (1808), Vol. III, p. 256; Hannah Yip.

Sermons Contained
GEMMS record created
September 18, 2021
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024