MS. Rawl. E. 260 - Constance Lucy Her Book

Notebook for copying sermons. Contains two sermons copied by Constance Lucy. Sermons are complete. Both the owner/scribe, Constance Lucy, and the manuscript itself are included in the Perdita database of women writers, which states, "The manuscript is written in a single uniform hand, presumably Lucy's autograph. Lucy has paginated pp. 1-135 with the digits in brackets, centred within a ruled top margin. Pp. 139-149 also have top ruling, but were not paginated by Lucy. A later cataloguer has paginated the rectos between pp. 137-275, as well as the final verso, p. 276, in pencil. The two passages of sermon notes transcribed by Lucy comprise discussions of II Thessalonians 2.1-17 and Romans 6.13-16. The notes follow an alternating structure, with one verse of Biblical text (quoted from the King James Version) directly followed by the gloss and explanations relevant to that verse. The notes seem likely to have been copied from printed sources. On pp. 272-274 (rev) the same hand has transcribed notes in shorthand, identified in the Summary Catalogue as a series of questions and answers."