A presentation copy of a sermon by Richard Hooker, which was later published as A Learned Discovrse of Ivstification (Oxford, 1612).
Quarto. Bound in gold-tooled limp vellum.
This manuscript belongs to the Domestic and Personal Papers of John Egerton, Second Earl of Bridgewater, who wrote 'M:r Hooker' in the top right-hand corner of f. 1r. In addition, the volume may have previously belonged to Bridgewater's grandfather, Sir Thomas Egerton (1540-1617).
The Bridgewater House Library was purchased by Henry E. Huntington from John Francis Granville Scrope Egerton, Fourth Earl of Ellesmere, in 1917.
Egerton Family Papers online finding aid (see link below); Guide to British Historical Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, CA: The Huntington Library, 1982), p. 54; W. Speed Hill [general editor], The Folger Library Edition of The Works of Richard Hooker, Volume 5 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990), pp. 83-170; Corneliu C. Simut, Richard Hooker and his Early Doctrine of Justification (Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005); Hannah Yip.
See Guide to British Historical Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, CA: The Huntington Library, 1982), pp. 21-25 for more information about the Ellesmere Collection.
Sermon on Habakkuk 1:4 -- ff. 1r-50r