Autograph sermons and drafts of sermons written by Edward Stillingfleet, Bishop of Worcester, in a mixture of longhand and shorthand.
Quarto. Contemporary blind-tooled calf binding.
The following is written on the front flyleaf: 'Occasional Sermons. This is in Bp Stillingfleets Handwriting Given me by my Neice ES. Stillingfleet 1795'. There are also some shorthand characters on this page.
Sold at Sotheby's on 17 December 1981 (lot 162) as the property of M. R. E. Stillingfleet, and purchased with the aid of the Friends of the National Libraries and the Friends of Lambeth Palace Library.
Lambeth Palace Library catalogue; Hannah Yip.
On f. 2r, the following has been written: 'This Book was written with Bishop Stillingfleet's own Hand'. It is signed 'E Stillingfleet'.
Sermon on unidentified text -- f. 2v
Sermon on unidentified text -- ff. 3v-4r
Sermon on unidentified text -- ff. 5r-5v
Sermon on Luke 15:17 -- ff. 6r-19v
Sermon on unidentified text -- f. 19v
Sermon on unidentified text -- ff. 20r-23r
Sermon on unidentified text -- f. 23v
Sermon on unidentified text -- ff. 24r-25v
Sermon on unidentified text -- ff. 26r-33v
Sermon on unidentified text -- ff. 34r-36v
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 11:8 -- ff. 37r-50v
Sermon on 2 Corinthians 4:3 -- ff. 51r-62v
Sermon on Philippians 2:12-13 -- ff. 63r-78v
Sermon on unidentified text -- ff. 79r-84v
Sermon on unidentified text -- ff. 85r-90v
Sermon on unidentified text -- ff. 91r-92v
Sermon on unidentified text -- ff. 93r-95v
Sermon on unidentified text -- ff. 96r-98v
Sermon on unidentified text -- ff. 99r-101r