This manuscript volume contains a presentation copy of a sermon by Reverend Andrew Marvell, the father of the poet. The volume opens with two blank leaves, followed by a printed catalogue entry which has been pasted in. The sermon has a title page and dedicatory epistle.
Duodecimo. Calf binding, featuring the Inner Temple coat of arms on the front and back covers. There are gold gilt edges. The endpapers are marbled. There is a bookplate of the Inner Temple Library on the inside front cover of the volume. The lettering on the spine reads as follows: 'MARVELL'S SERMON. 1627. MSS. NO. 531. C.'
Although this manuscript has been catalogued as a Petyt Manuscript, it was actually presented by Mrs Anne Sadleir, who made the gift in 1661. Her gift was intended as a tribute to her father, Sir Edward Coke, who had studied at Inner Temple. The Petyt Collection was largely bequeathed to the Benchers of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple by William Petyt (1637-1707) in 1707.
J. Conway Davies, ed., Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, Volume I: The Petyt Collection: MSS. 502-533 (Oxford University Press, 1972), p. 332; Hannah Yip
For more information about this manuscript, see Michael Craze, The Life and Lyrics of Andrew Marvell (London and Basingstoke: The Macmillan Press, 1979), p. 3; Nigel Smith, Andrew Marvell: The Chameleon (New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2010), pp. 19-20; Stewart Mottram, '"A most excellent medicine": Malaria, Mithridate, and the death of Andrew Marvell', The Seventeenth Century, 36.4 (2021), 653-79.
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