MS II.d.46 - Commonplace Book

GEMMS Manuscript ID
GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT- 703
(old series: GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-256)
Title
Commonplace Book
Shelfmark
MS II.d.46
Creation Date
ca. 1638 - 1677
Contents Note

The commonplace book is unfoliated and unpaginated and consists of reports in one hand of fourteen sermons by eleven Puritan preachers (1638-1640) as well as notes in a different hand of thirteen further discourses (1672-1677). A later hand has suggested that the materials in the reverse part of the volume appear to have been written by a brother or sister of John Whitlock. The hand in the second half of the volume is childish, with phonetic irregular spelling, suggesting perhaps that the writer is female, but this is pure conjecture. The volume is written in one direction with several blank leaves in the middle, and in reverse from the other side of the volume.

Material Features

The volume is bound in quarter leather. On the spine is gold tooling and a label of red leather, tooled and lettered in gold, M. S.

Source of Data

Jeanne Shami

Sermons Contained
GEMMS record created
April 28, 2016
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024