Macray's catalogue notes that the manuscript contains notes for sermons on various parts of holy Scripture, especially the whole book of Ecclesiastes, dated at the beginning October 14, 1602, and belonging to Thomas Hearne, April 10, 1709. Occasional marginal and interlinear notes in French are interspersed throughout the volume. The catalogue mentions sermons on Psalms 1-6, but they are actually on 1-5, and 7. In addition, the sermons on Ecclesiastes do not cover the whole book, going only to the end of Chapter 11. At the end of the manuscript, reversing the book, are a sermon in French and notes on Genesis. It is difficult to determine where one sermon ends and another begins within the manuscript. Given the number of revisions, changes, insertions, marginal additions and comments, it is probable that this manuscript is a collection of preacher's notes for sermons.
The entire manuscript is written in dark, reddish ink, and in the same neat, italic hand.
Jeanne Shami; Rawlinson A-B Catalogue (Bodleian Library)
Sermon on 2 Timothy 2:8 -- ff. 1r-v
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 1:1 -- ff. 2r-3r
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 1:2 -- ff. 2r-3r
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 1:3-7 -- ff. 4r-5r
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 1:8 -- ff. 5v-6v
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 1:12 -- ff. 7r-8r
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 1:16-18 -- ff. 8r-9v
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 2:2 -- f. 10r
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 2:3 -- ff. 10r-11r
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 2:4 -- ff. 11r-13v
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 2:12 -- ff. 14r-15r
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 2:15 -- ff. 15r-16r
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 2:18 -- ff. 16v-17v
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 2:24 -- ff. 18r-19v
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 3:1 -- ff. 19v-20v
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 3:2 -- ff. 20v-21r
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 3:3 -- f. 21r
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 3:4 -- ff. 21r-v
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 3:5 -- f. 21v
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 3:6 -- f. 22r
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 3:8-9 -- f. 22v
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 3:10 -- ff. 22v-23r
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 3:11-12 -- f. 23r
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 3:9-15 -- ff. 24r-26r
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 3:16 -- ff. 26v-27r
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 3:18 -- ff. 27v-28r
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 4:1-3 -- ff. 28v-29r
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 4:4-5 -- ff. 29v-30r
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 4:6-8 -- ff. 30v-31v
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 -- ff. 32r-v
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 4:13-14 -- ff. 33r-34r
Sermon 1 on Ecclesiastes 5:1 -- ff. 34v-36r
Sermon 2 on Ecclesiastes 5:1 -- f. 36v
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 5:3 -- ff. 37r-v
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 5:8 -- ff. 38r-41r
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 5:14 -- ff. 41v-42r
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 5:16-19 -- ff. 42v-43r
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 6:1-6 -- ff. 43v-44v
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 6:6-8 -- f. 45r
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 6:9-12 -- ff. 45v-46r
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 7:3-8 -- ff. 47v-49v
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 7:7 -- ff. 50r-51v
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 7:12-17 -- ff. 52r-55v
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 7:21-23 -- ff. 56r-v
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 7:24-25 -- ff. 57r-v
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 8:1 -- f. 58r-v
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 8:2 -- f. 59r-62v
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 8:15-17 -- ff. 63r-65r
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 9:1-6 -- ff. 65v-67v
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 9:7-10 -- ff. 68r-69v, 70v-73r
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 9:8-18 -- ff. 73v-74v
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 10:4 -- ff. 75v-78r
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 10:12-15 -- ff. 79v-81r
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 11:1-6 -- ff. 81v-84r
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 11:7 -- ff. 84v-86r
Sermon on Exodus 19:10-11 -- ff. 94r-v
Sermon on Matthew 19:16 -- ff. 95r-98v
Sermon on Matthew 19:27 -- ff. 99r-100r
Sermon on Genesis 22 -- ff. 101r-102r
Sermon on 2 Corinthians 11 -- ff. 103r-104r
Sermon on Matthew 13:31 -- ff. 119v-126r
Sermon on Numbers 12:1 -- ff. 126r-133r
Sermon on Psalms 1:1-6 -- ff. 134r-135v
Sermon on Psalms 2:1-12 -- ff. 136r-138v
Sermon on Psalms 4:1-8 -- ff. 141r-142v
Sermon on Psalms 5:1-12 -- ff. 143r-144v
Sermon on Psalms 7:1-17 -- ff. 145r-146r
Sermon on Exodus 10:11 -- ff. 151v-152r (written in reverse)
Sermon on Genesis 1:1-31 -- ff. 146v-148v (written in reverse)
Sermon on 2 Chronicles 30 -- ff. 105v-106v, 107v-113r
Sermon on Matthew 13:16 -- ff. 113v-114r
Sermon on Matthew 13:11 -- f. 114v
Sermon on Matthew 13:24-30 -- ff. 116v-119r
Sermon on Psalms 3:1-8 -- ff. 139r-140v
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 3:7 -- f. 22r
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 3:13-14 -- f. 23v