MS 28.6 - Funeral Sermons by Joseph Caryl

GEMMS Manuscript ID
GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT- 783
(old series: GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-209)
Title
Funeral Sermons by Joseph Caryl
Shelfmark
MS 28.6
Creation Date
ca. 1656 - 1662
Contents Note

This is a beautiful, fairly slim volume bound in leather, gilt tooled and edged, formerly with clasps, containing unpublished funeral sermons by the Revd. Joseph Caryl (1602-1673) for members of the Burrowe or Burrowes family, with some other pieces. The sermons include several for children, a fairly uncommon practice at their funerals. In all, there are four sermons, additional "exhortations", a funeral elegy and an acrostic poem.

Material Features

The volume is handsomely written, with title pages painted on vellum with symbolic effigies, etc. The volume has ff. 72, of which ff. 1-3, 70-72 are blank. The pages are ruled with red borders; the right-hand margin is closely cropped.

Provenance

The signature of "Mary Bellamy" is on f. 2a. At the end of the last piece in the volume are the legends ‘J.H. fecit’ and ‘E.H. scr.’ presumably referring to the last items, unless J.H. painted the title pages and E.H. wrote out the whole. This last suggestion is that of the DWL cataloguer.

Source of Data

Jeanne Shami

Sermons Contained
GEMMS record created
April 12, 2016
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024