WYB263 - Volume of Sermons, and Correspondence Concerning Robert Collier

GEMMS Manuscript ID
GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT- 1132
(old series: GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-966)
Title
Volume of Sermons, and Correspondence Concerning Robert Collier
Shelfmark
WYB263
Creation Date
1641 - 1642
Repository
West Yorkshire Archive Service, Bradford
Contents Note

A series of about fifty sermons by various preachers given around the West Riding of Yorkshire. The volume includes two sets of letters, one to Miss Sykes from Norah Gurney, the Archivist at the Borthwick Institute of Historical Research dated 6 January 1966 enclosing a list of the preachers of the sermons with notes on the ones that have been identified. Gurney suggests that the handwriting is similar to that in a manuscript held at the church in Otley written by Charles Fairfax. She says, however, that she is unsure whether one volume is a copy of the other or whether the handwriting is the same. Other letters suggest that both volumes are written by Charles Fairfax. The other letter is by William Smith and seems unconnected to the volume.

Material Features

Unfoliated and unpaginated. In a contemporary vellum binding. Written in one large but unclear hand. Every page has a wide left-hand margin where biblical references are noted down.

Associated People
Acquisition

Manuscript note pasted in states: "Presented to the Ilkley Museum by Robert Collyer – 1900"

Source of Data (Contributor name)

Catherine Evans

Sermons Contained
GEMMS record created
November 21, 2018
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024