Petyt MS. 530 C - A Sermon for Christmas

GEMMS Manuscript ID
GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT- 1024
(old series: GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-833)
Title
A Sermon for Christmas
Shelfmark
Petyt MS. 530 C
Creation Date
ca. 1600 - 1625
Contents Note

The volume opens with three blank leaves, followed by a printed catalogue entry which has been pasted in. Another blank leaf appears before the title page to the sermon.

Material Features

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.

Acquisition

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.

Source of Data

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. 330; Hannah Yip

Other Note

It is conjectured that this sermon was written in the first quarter of the seventeenth century. See J. Conway Davies, Catalogue, p. 330.

Sermons Contained
GEMMS record created
June 8, 2018
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024