TCD MS 419 - John Burley (or Burleigh): academic notebook

GEMMS Manuscript ID
GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT- 1161
(old series: GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-1012)
Title
John Burley (or Burleigh): academic notebook
Shelfmark
TCD MS 419
Creation Date
ca. 1618 - 1650
Contents Note

Manuscript owned by John Burleigh (Burley), whose name is signed on the flyleaf. The sermons appear to have been preached at King James's College (Chelsea College). One section of the manuscript (ff. 72r-76r) contains sermon notes. Also contains a section with material on logic, rhetoric, theology, and natural philosophy, and a glossary of Latin words.

Material Features

Quarto. Paper, 185 ff., 147 x 192mm. Very good vellum binding. Ruled narrow margin (free-drawn). Numerous blank pages. Versos almost all blank. The notes are written in the same light ink until a little over half way down f. 76r, at which point the ink becomes darker and messier.

Provenance

The signatures of Robert and Richard Hicks also appear on the flyleaf, though not as frequently as Burleigh's. The TCD cataloguer suggests the volume may have been used as a school book. The TCD cataloguer notes that Burley's is not recorded in this manuscript, but is recorded in another that belonged to him, TCD MS 446.

Source of Data

Jeanne Shami; TCD M&ARL Online Catalogue; CELM.

Other Note

The sermon notes in this volume are discussed in P G Stanwood, "John Donne's Sermon Notes", The Review of English Studies 29 (1978): 313-320.

GEMMS record created
January 17, 2019
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024