BT 3055 - Christ preaching his owne bitter Death and passion

GEMMS Manuscript ID
GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT- 1017
(old series: GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-813)
Title
Christ preaching his owne bitter Death and passion
Shelfmark
BT 3055
Creation Date
ca. 1700 - 1700
Repository
Contents Note

This manuscript contains 16 devotional sermons about the Passion of Christ. They are not sermons in the usual sense. Each ‘sermon’ describes an episode of the Passion, narrated by ‘Christ’ in the first person, and ends with a section entitled ‘The fruit [of the sermon]’, which is a type of commentary/form of prayer/response by the listener, also written in the first person, on the episode which has just been described. Sometimes, this part is longer than the actual ‘sermon’ itself. The sixteen sermons are followed by four blank leaves and ‘Aacts of d[e]uotion in walking the stations’, written in the same hand. The ‘Aacts’ are divided into several ‘stations’, or stages of Christ’s Passion, e.g. ‘at the kiss of Judas’, ‘Simon helps to cary the Cross’, ‘our lord stript of his garments’. The writer pens supplications to Jesus or God at each ‘station’. The ‘Aacts’ comprise twelve leaves, unfoliated and unpaginated, and are written in English, with some use of Latin. There are six blank leaves at the end of the volume.

Material Features

Bound in old calf. Duodecimo, unfoliated and unpaginated. There are chi-rho watermarks on the front flyleaf and the following leaf.

Provenance

At the top of the front flyleaf, three different names are written in three different hands: 'Mary Joseph Vaughan'; 'Reverend Edw. Gallagher' [the manuscript was given to him in 1952]; 'Alice Duggan' [the manuscript was given to her in August, but the year is obscured by a pasted-in label]. The name 'Mary Bartlett', in a different hand from all of the above, can be found on the first leaf of the first sermon.

Source of Data (Contributor name)

Heythrop College Library Catalogue; Hannah Yip

Other Note

According to the Heythrop College Library Catalogue, the authorship of this volume is uncertain. It is conjectured that the book may have been written by 'Cardinal Vaughan's mother or some other relation'.

Sermons Contained
URLs
http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/search~S3/c?SEARCH=bt3055 Heythrop College Library Catalogue entry for BT 3055.
http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/search/X?SEARCH=sermon&l=&m=t&searchsco… University of London Library Catalogue entry for BT 3055.
GEMMS record created
May 1, 2018
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024