Harley MS 6536 - Sermon notes

GEMMS Manuscript ID
GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT- 130
(old series: GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-1540)
Title
Sermon notes
Shelfmark
Harley MS 6536
Creation Date
ca. 1642 - 1653
Repository
Contents Note

Notes of sermons, written in a single secretary hand. Preaching locations include Chipping Ongar, Lambourne and Stapleford Abbotts (all in Essex), Stepney (Middlesex) and Caddington (Bedfordshire). Preachers include Edward Bentall, Ralph Josselin and Peter Alliston (Elliston).

Material Features

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, 1753, 1784, 5068, 5258, 6028, 6208, 6535, 6538, 6539, 6559, 6568, 6572, and 6946.

Provenance

'Mr Elliston of St Albans' may have been the scribe for British Library, Harley MSS 6534-6536. See A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, in the British Museum (1808), Vol. III, p. 374.

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. III, p. 374; CELM; Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani (London, 1972); Hannah Yip.

Sermons Contained
GEMMS record created
September 22, 2021
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024