MS 12.10 - P.P.’s Common-place Book

GEMMS Manuscript ID
GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT- 765
(old series: GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-191)
Title
P.P.’s Common-place Book
Shelfmark
MS 12.10
Creation Date
ca. 1614 - 1712
Repository
Dr Williams's Library
Contents Note

Volume first used as a commonplace book of classical texts with two early seventeenth-century hands: f. 2. contains the draft of a letter signed ‘PP’ answering a warrant under the hands of the Earl of Warwick and others, directing ‘PP’ to set the seal of the Admiralty to a commission ‘in the cause of Mr Smith’. Subsequently used for notes on sermons and Congregational Church matters by a later hand. The DWL catalogue mentions some important specific items in the manuscript but does not specify the many sermon outlines and complete drafts contained in the manuscript. It is possible that the sermons copied into this book are transcriptions of other manuscripts and printed books, but it is difficult to determine the nature of the sources for these sermons.

Material Features

The hands in this manuscript are clear and easy to decipher. Brief comments are interspersed with sermons and sermon notes, but it is easy to distinguish sermon content from other notes.

Associated People
Source of Data

Jeanne Shami and DWL Manuscript Catalogue

Other Note

The rough composition date of this manuscript's contents is based on datable sermons between 1614-1712, but it is impossible to be more precise. For more information about the sermon preached by William Goodwin (1614), see Sermons at Paul's Cross, 1521-1642, ed. by Torrance Kirby and others (Oxford, 2017), pp. 433-453.

Sermons Contained
GEMMS record created
April 4, 2016
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024