Ms. Crynes 837 - Print and manuscript volume

GEMMS Manuscript ID
GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT- 627
(old series: GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-706)
Title
Print and manuscript volume
Shelfmark
Ms. Crynes 837
Creation Date
ca. 1581 - 1583
Repository
Contents Note

Sixteenth-century volume containing both printed and manuscript material. First is a printed copy of the second edition of Ad rationes decem Edmundi Campiani Iesuitae responsio by William Whitaker (1583). Next are various manuscript materials: a sermon by Tobie Matthew, directed against Edmund Campion, dated 9 October 1581; William Hubbocke's English translation of Whitaker's Ad rationes, dated 1583; a preface to the book by Hubbocke; a Latin dedication of the English translation and some short poems by Bishop Richard Barnes.

Material Features

315 pages of the printed text + about 170 leaves of manuscript material, unfoliated and unpaginated. The printed text is octavo.

Acquisition

Bequeathed to the Bodleian by Crynes in 1745.

Source of Data

Jeanne Shami, Bodleian Library Summary Catalogue, vol. 5; description of Crynes manuscripts on the Bodleian website

URLs
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/1500-1900/crynes/crynes.html Description of Crynes manuscripts on the Bodleian website
GEMMS record created
November 6, 2017
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024