MS. Douce 46 - Miscellaneous English manuscripts

GEMMS Manuscript ID
GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT- 628
(old series: GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-707)
Title
Miscellaneous English manuscripts
Shelfmark
MS. Douce 46
Creation Date
ca. 1579 - 1637
Repository
Contents Note

Various English manuscript documents, including what appears to be a copy of a printed text (f. 22), "The descouerie of A Gaping Gulf, wherinto England is like to be Swallowed by an other french Mariage," written by John Stubbes and published anonymously. The volume contains two sermons, on 2 Samuel 24:22 (ff. 16r-21r) and Isaiah 25 (ff. 117v-141r) by unidentified preachers. It also contains a letter from Sir Philip Sidney to Queen Elizabeth I discouraging her from getting married (f. 2), and a summary of "'Judge Crooke his Argument vpon Shipmooey" dated 1637.

Material Features

Paper, iii + 165 leaves, 6 x 3 7/8 inches. The texts are written in various hands, but both sermons appear to be written in the same hand.

Provenance

Owned by W[illia]m Herbert in the eighteenth century.

Acquisition

Bequeathed by Francis Douce to the Bodleian in 1834.

Source of Data

Jeanne Shami; Bodleian Library Summary Catalogue, vol. 4; description of the Douce collection on the Bodleian website

Sermons Contained
URLs
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/1500-1900/douce/douce2CLD.ht… Description of the Douce collection on the Bodleian website
GEMMS record created
November 7, 2017
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024