GEMMS Manuscript ID
GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-
512
(old series: GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-479)
Title
The Court sermon
Shelfmark
MS. Rawl. E. 124
Creation Date
ca. 1670 - 1680
Repository
Contents Note
A sermon (pp. 1-140) on Proverbs 26:4, dedicated to James Butler, Duke of Ormonde, Chancellor of the University of Oxford. Title page and dedication on pp. xii-xvi. Pages 141-157 are blank.
Material Features
Paper, xvi + 158 pages, 7 1/4 x 4 1/2 inches. Unfoliated.
Associated People
Provenance
The author was educated at Oxford. He lived abroad before his ordination. The sermon was intended for the king, but he could not attend.
Source of Data
Jeanne Shami; Bodleian Library Summary Catalogue, vol. 3
Other Note
See Christoph Ketterer, To Meddle with Matters of State: Political Sermons in England, c. 1660-c.1700 (Gottingen, 2020), pp. 102-103.
Sermons Contained
Sermon on Proverbs 26:4 -- pp. 1-140
GEMMS record created
December 11, 2016
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024