Harley MS 6535 - Sermon notes

GEMMS Manuscript ID
GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT- 131
(old series: GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-1581)
Title
Sermon notes
Shelfmark
Harley MS 6535
Creation Date
ca. 1628 - 1633
Repository
British Library
Contents Note

Notes of sermons, written in a single secretary hand. Preaching locations include Ongar, Lambourne, and Havering in Essex; preachers include Caesar Calendrinus, Daniel Joyner, and Thomas Winniffe. From f. 79r, there are extracts from printed sermons and texts including John Vicars, Jehovah-jireh (London, 1644), Henry Isaacson, A Treaty of Pacification (London, 1642), Anthony Stafford, A Day of Salvation (London, 1635), and Lancelot Andrewes, A Patterne of Catechisticall Doctrine (London, 1630).

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, 6536, 6538, 6539, 6559, 6568, 6572, and 6946.

Associated People
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. 'Frauncis Sike[?]' is inscribed in a seventeenth-century hand on the leaf facing f. 110v.

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
December 18, 2021
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024